Critically explore the boundaries between drug users and drug dealers in the UK cannabis market.
This essay will look at the boundaries and relationships between cannabis users and the cannabis dealers within the UK. Firstly examining the legislation and the current policies that have been implemented to try and deal with the medical, physiological problems with cannabis. Secondly linking the legalisation and policies upon cannabis that have already been implemented throughout the United Kingdom, also looking to explore the medical experts and policy makers reasons for not changing the class category of cannabis. Many other countries throughout the world have different policies and legislation to deal with cannabis users and dealers. For …show more content…
If cannabis was made legal it means that the government would be responsible for implementing strict rules on cannabis usage and distribution. However there is no denying that the government may not want this responsibility. Bearing this in mind, perhaps this is why even the supporters of liberalization or legalization would acknowledge that drug use causes harm to individual, families and the wider community, although their arguments are that these harms and problems follow from the criminalization of drugs and drug users and the inadequacy of support services,(E.carrabine,P.Cox,M.lee,K.Plummer and N. South,2009:269). The fact is that whether the government decides to legalise or decriminalize the personnel usage of cannabis there will always be critics of the …show more content…
However the UK has certain punishments for individuals caught with a certain amount of a particular illegal drug for their own personnel use. Moreover it is difficult to police psychoactive drugs as once a particular substance is made illegal, individuals will develop a new psychoactive substance in order to get around the law. Meaning that the police and the government are faced with an ongoing problem, that every time a legal high is made illegal and new substance will be made to replace the current banned substance. Surely one thing that the Police and Criminal Justice Service are harsh on is drug moguls who try to smuggle high quantities of illegal drugs through our brooders. Europe and the rest of the world issue a minimum of 14 years to an individual caught trafficking an illegal substances through their boarders. Within Europe it has been estimated that €34B is spent each year tackling the problem of illegal drugs: since this figure relates to 2005 it is likely that the current figure is significantly higher (EMCCDDA
This essay will look at the boundaries and relationships between cannabis users and the cannabis dealers within the UK. Firstly examining the legislation and the current policies that have been implemented to try and deal with the medical, physiological problems with cannabis. Secondly linking the legalisation and policies upon cannabis that have already been implemented throughout the United Kingdom, also looking to explore the medical experts and policy makers reasons for not changing the class category of cannabis. Many other countries throughout the world have different policies and legislation to deal with cannabis users and dealers. For …show more content…
If cannabis was made legal it means that the government would be responsible for implementing strict rules on cannabis usage and distribution. However there is no denying that the government may not want this responsibility. Bearing this in mind, perhaps this is why even the supporters of liberalization or legalization would acknowledge that drug use causes harm to individual, families and the wider community, although their arguments are that these harms and problems follow from the criminalization of drugs and drug users and the inadequacy of support services,(E.carrabine,P.Cox,M.lee,K.Plummer and N. South,2009:269). The fact is that whether the government decides to legalise or decriminalize the personnel usage of cannabis there will always be critics of the …show more content…
However the UK has certain punishments for individuals caught with a certain amount of a particular illegal drug for their own personnel use. Moreover it is difficult to police psychoactive drugs as once a particular substance is made illegal, individuals will develop a new psychoactive substance in order to get around the law. Meaning that the police and the government are faced with an ongoing problem, that every time a legal high is made illegal and new substance will be made to replace the current banned substance. Surely one thing that the Police and Criminal Justice Service are harsh on is drug moguls who try to smuggle high quantities of illegal drugs through our brooders. Europe and the rest of the world issue a minimum of 14 years to an individual caught trafficking an illegal substances through their boarders. Within Europe it has been estimated that €34B is spent each year tackling the problem of illegal drugs: since this figure relates to 2005 it is likely that the current figure is significantly higher (EMCCDDA