reducing crime by breaking the law?
By growing a personal supply of cannabis, might responsible users reduce burdens on their local police force?
In complex times, responsible cannabis users are eager to abide by the law, but also continue their medical regimen or recreational activity. Some patients are legally prescribed cannabis, maybe around 30,000 people in the UK, this medicine is provided by clinics and pharmacies. However, for most people, buying cannabis with zero provenance means they have no knowledge, or control, over where their money goes, and carry a higher risk or uncertainty related to product quality, reliability and safety.
Some cannabis users are already taking direct action by producing their own supply. Stopping their money from joining billions raised through organised crime in the UK. Their action directly reduces higher level crime, through a reduction in demand fulfilled by criminal gangs. Every gram of cannabis which is not traceable to source may have been produced by organised groups using drug mules or causing other exploitation. The action of private growers directly helps reduce that criminality.
Many cannabis users demonstrate a genuine awareness to these responsibilities, and how their use of cannabis has wider impacts and want to take some action to reduce the criminality of their activities.
The community is pressing ahead with efforts lobbying for appropriate legal frameworks for the sales of cannabis to adults in the UK and the right to grow. But there are already groups of individuals who refuse to buy cannabis from unknown sources, and have taken it into their hands to produce their own.
Individual producers live with the same fears of those who produce cannabis for criminal gain, but many are in full-time employment. Some are legal patients who also take care of their medicinal needs to fill in the gaps when clinics are unable to provide a reliable supply. Importantly, all whom we have interviewed demonstrated to be responsible adults, engaged and involved in society or life.
We encourage active community discussion, sharing of knowledge, helping each other understand options available to remove exposure to, and stop support for organised crime.
Join the Tiny Cannabis Club, members get access to great resources and information
In complex times, responsible cannabis users are eager to abide by the law, but also continue their medical regimen or recreational activity. Some patients are legally prescribed cannabis, maybe around 30,000 people in the UK, this medicine is provided by clinics and pharmacies. However, for most people, buying cannabis with zero provenance means they have no knowledge, or control, over where their money goes, and carry a higher risk or uncertainty related to product quality, reliability and safety.
Some cannabis users are already taking direct action by producing their own supply. Stopping their money from joining billions raised through organised crime in the UK. Their action directly reduces higher level crime, through a reduction in demand fulfilled by criminal gangs. Every gram of cannabis which is not traceable to source may have been produced by organised groups using drug mules or causing other exploitation. The action of private growers directly helps reduce that criminality.
Many cannabis users demonstrate a genuine awareness to these responsibilities, and how their use of cannabis has wider impacts and want to take some action to reduce the criminality of their activities.
The community is pressing ahead with efforts lobbying for appropriate legal frameworks for the sales of cannabis to adults in the UK and the right to grow. But there are already groups of individuals who refuse to buy cannabis from unknown sources, and have taken it into their hands to produce their own.
Individual producers live with the same fears of those who produce cannabis for criminal gain, but many are in full-time employment. Some are legal patients who also take care of their medicinal needs to fill in the gaps when clinics are unable to provide a reliable supply. Importantly, all whom we have interviewed demonstrated to be responsible adults, engaged and involved in society or life.
We encourage active community discussion, sharing of knowledge, helping each other understand options available to remove exposure to, and stop support for organised crime.
Join the Tiny Cannabis Club, members get access to great resources and information