9:45am Tuesday 9th February 2010
By Reader's letter
I have never before witnessed such a disgraceful waste of public money than the “drugs raid” on the travellers’ site in Clifton.
There were 160 police officers, with planning since January 11, to arrest ten people and seize 21 cannabis plants, £2000 cash and £750 in counterfeit money, and then (to date) to charge one 17-year-old with cultivation.
If ever there was a reason to rid this country of such failed drug laws, then this is it.
Cannabis and the traveller community may be easy targets, but I’m afraid I for one am not happy to pay my taxes to stigmatise, and prioritise crime in this ridiculous manner.
It seems that maybe cannabis and travellers are both subject to the same general nonsense, Government propaganda, and media-created hysteria as each other.
It’s such a shame that people can no longer think for themselves in this country.
Steve Clements, York.
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