UK Cannabis Growers Needed for Academic Study into Cannabis Law

The UK cannabis scene is for the most part, shrouded in secrecy and paranoia and with good reason.

The reality of the situation is, a person who grows cannabis for their own consumption is just as much a criminal as the person who stands outside bus and train stations up and down the country selling dime bags of horse to passers by. Certainly thats the case in the eyes of the law.
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This is due to how the legal system is set up in the UK. Its designed from the ground up not to protect us, because we're criminals too and until this changes everything will stay just the same.

The 'No Justice' system
The problem we have of course, is the fact that no right-minded barrister or lawyer is going to defend cannabis cultivation or use, for fear of being soft on drugs and that won't do at all.
Regardless of the fact over 50 million people around the world now have legal and regulated access to cannabis, here in the UK all that evidence is inadmissible and as such, cannot be used to defend oneself in a UK court of law.

Around the world the science is IN on cannabis yet here in the UK the yellow journalism and political gerrymandering which blurs boundaries between science and politics keeps cannabis outlawed.

It does so at the behest of big business like pharma and petroleum who between them spend millions of pounds a year 'lobbying' MP's in London by showering them with gifts and setting up social events attended by celebrities and politicians alike. Due to how the politicians have set the system up for themselves, its all quite legal.

But its a back-hander any 1980's football manager would have been proud of and its a system which needs to be dismantled and rebuilt if scientific evidence is to play a part in UK drugs policy.

The only way to effectively dismantle this skewed and corrupt system, is from the inside out.

So its widely understood the judicial system needs to change before a UK citizens who's only crime is growing a bit of cannabis for himself can expect justice from our archaic legal system.

Which is where PhD Dr Gary Potter and his colleagues come into the frame.

Dr Potter is course director of criminology at London South Bank University.

The Professor Gary Potter staff page on the university website he says "I mostly research drug use and drug markets and am currently involved in an international collaboration looking at cannabis cultivation around the world, and a national collaborative project looking at drug dealing in the UK..."

Mr Potter also teaches Criminal Justice and the Crime Problem, Intoduction to Criminal Justice Policy, Drugs and Crime and Green Criminology.

Essentially, teaching the legal profession of tomorrow how to qualify for a career in law.

Study
Professor Potter is also taking part in a collaborative study into cannabis growers and he is asking for your help.

In an e-mail to UKCultivator.net he said "I am conducting some research into cannabis cultivation. I am working with a group of colleagues from around the world - all looking at cultivation in our own countries. Our motivation/rationale is simple: there's a lot of negative stereotypes about cannabis growing and cannabis growers, and there are stupid laws and policies based on misinformation."

"We hope" he continued, "to establish a more accurate picture of the sorts of people that grow cannabis and why they do it (i.e. make the point that the vast majority of growers are not involved in other types of crime and shouldn't really be treated as criminals)."

In a nutshell Dr Potter would like UK cannabis cultivators to go and check out a short survey into the Great British cannabis grower. The address is http://worldwideweed.nl/uk .

Being the introverted and paranoid types that we are these survey's generally fall on deaf ears. But this is different.

Dr Potter actually agree's the cannabis laws are 'stupid' and is working at the highest level of acedemia to prove as much.

Unfortunately he can't do it with cannabis cultivators like you and me.

So I have pledged to take the survey and I hope you will too. Please visit Professor Potters website and check out whats going down. If you feel comfortable enough after doing a bit of research, please take the survey. Its anonymous, we have Prof Potters assurances that no names are needed and no IP addresses are stored.

You WILL be helping to change the laws surrounding cannabis.

http://pr.cannazine.co.uk 24/11/2012