Drug possession 'should be treated like speeding', says police chief
Possession of drugs such as cannabis should be treated like speeding with offenders sent on awareness courses, says the president of the Police Superintendents' Association. Paul Griffiths said people needed to 'understand why they have been intercepted by police' rather than being offered a 'punitive response'. It comes as the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities appeared to call for the decriminalisation of class B drug possession for personal use. Mr Griffiths told The Times: 'The comparison [with speeding] is that we’re looking at the alternative means of education, rather than enf...