Police uncover "colossal" cannabis crop in Hendon (From Times Series)

• "I resent our hard-earned tax money being wasted in this way to prop up the failed policy of prohibition. I think this story just goes to show how much demand there is for this god-given plant.
  If cannabis were legal and properly regulated businesses like this would be above board and paying tax, the cannabis would only be for sale to over 21's. It is in the area of age regulation that prohibition has failed most spectacularly, with cannabis currently on sale to anyone who wants it, the only I.D. the black market sellers want to see is a £10 note, whereas in more liberal countries, like Holland, the sellers want to see your passport or other proof that you are over 21 before selling to you. In countries like Holland and Portugal where cannabis for personal use is at least tolerated they have successfully separated the market for cannabis away from the trade in hard drugs like heroin and cocaine, the result being that in those countries they have a tiny problem with those hard drugs, and it is reducing all the while, whereas here in the blinkered U.K. we have a huge and escalating problem with them.
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  For the vast majority of users the cannabis experience is beneficial and productive. It is only when they get 'busted' that the experience becomes an unpleasant one. The reality of the situation is that the average cannabis user faces far more harm from the prohibition laws than he or she would ever get from the cannabis use.
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  I think David Cameron really needs to take a fresh look at this, the economy could be around £6 billion better off when cannabis is taxed and money saved on court procedures, keeping people in jail etc."
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