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by br78 4409 days ago
In the UK police have powers of stop and search which are very wide ranging. Small, personal amounts of cannabis possession are sometimes overlooked or given a 'caution' (which still goes on your record) but its completely up to the cop's discretion. No surprise, figures out last month showed black people are rarely given a caution compared to white. Cannabis is the same class (B) as mephedrone and speed and more restricted than class C ketamine.

Few European countries have police as militarized or jails as full as yours, but many of them eat up the same war on drugs rhetoric.