British court cracks down on growers

Britain may have reclassified cannabis and taken a decrim approach on personal comsumption but the big island's top judge says there's no free ride for cannabis producers.

Judge Stanley Spence rejected arguments that the reclassification of cannabis from class B to C should reduce sentences as he jailed three men behind what is believed to be the biggest cannabis factory discovered in Britain.

Jed Murphy, the man described as one of the organisers, was jailed for seven and a half years while his two helpers Ian Rollinson and Keith Alexander were sentenced to five years and four and a half years. Police found 10,000 plants growing in an elaborate hydroponics set-up at the Belscott industrial estate in Finchampstead in April.

Rather hypocritical wouldn't you say and this illustrates the problem with decrim measures for personal use in general, they often come packaged with harsher penalties for those who actually provide the pot.