Who will empty the trash?

They call this drug amnesty? I call it voluntary confiscation. Concert goers at the V2004 festival at Weston Park have the option to dump their drugs into "special bins" prior to entering the park or face arrest if caught in possession once they are through the gates.

One wonders why they need a separate bin. Do you suppose they will do an inventory for their police report on exactly what was "seized " or just want to make sure the garbage removal service won't fish anything out of the trash?

Ah, in the updated version of the story, it looks a little less voluntary. Police reportedly seized quite an amount of drugs, Almost 500 grams of cannabis, 2.3 grams of cocaine, 1.4 grams of heroin, 198 ecstasy tablets and 8.6 grams of amphetamine as a result of over seventy searches based on the latest CCTV technology.

This technology means car number plates can be checked against police
records for drug users and dealers as soon as vehicles arrive at the concert. Details and pictures of suspects will then be passed back to the officers'
mobile phones for them to make arrests. Talk about fishing expeditions -- the whole scheme stinks like week old garbage. And this is even more disturbing:

A fully-equipped drugs laboratory will also be on site as police plan to use sniffer dogs and forensic technology to find drugs.

In addition to the new technology, about 36,000 black rubbish bags have been printed with the Crimestoppers Safe and Sound logo and phone number to encourage concert-goers to blow the whistle on thieves and drug-takers.

I'm okay with fighting thievery but it seems like US style prohibition profiteering is truly infecting the planet. You have any idea what an operation of this magnitude costs? And why do the police go to these great lengths to arrest 13 people out of a crowd of 70 thousand? The amount of drugs they found may sound like a lot to non-consumers but trust me, the pot was their greatest haul and figuring a gram in every joint, it would not have made a dent in the sobriety of a crowd that size and outside of the ecstasy, the other drugs wouldn't be enough for more than a half a dozen people -- it was all clearly personal stash meant to enhance their own enjoyment of the event, not meant to be sold at the concert.

Go figure -- and just when it looked like the UK was coming to its senses about cannabis by rescheduling the plant.