Anyone got any tips or useful links for ourselves and the officer to learn from.
Keen to have a pleasant learning experience for both of us, but need to know, if the officer decides to be a divvy, who do I take a complaint to?
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skyred
- 2wk
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Ask them how we should best conduct ourselves during an encounter with officers who are not demonstrating good knowledge of the law.
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Jerrylatty
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Met police guidance for staff: https://www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metropolitan-police/d/november-2022/medical-cannabis-use-police/
Guidance for coming across a Cancard holders: https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/foi-media/metropolitan-police/disclosure_2022/april_2022/policy-verification-prescribed-medical-cannabis-q4.docx
A DfT report on driving and medical cannabis: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62345cb9d3bf7f6ac48a8ee2/medical-cannabis-and-road-safety.pdf
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Jax
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I have considered doing this as an exercise, all my neighbours are cool so I don't ever expect them to complain to the police, but I'm worried that it might bring unwanted attention.
My boy is currently obsessed with Police Interceptors and Traffic Cops at the moment, and sometimes I sit with him and watch a bit. It's amazing how many pings they get from their ANPR cameras and the information that goes with it. Being naturally paranoid/cautious I'm wondering if alerting the police about my prescription might lead to them put some kind of tag on my car about using cannabis.
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Hal9
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Ask them the absolute basics first , did they know that whole plant cannabis has been legal for medical purposes since 2018. Fact.
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Yvonne
- 2wk
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Any medical user that gets arrested for a legal prescription needs to take it further. Speak to some lawyers, put in a police complaint and try to take it to court.
These dimwits need consequences for their lack of knowledge and total lack of caring about the law change.
This ignorance can't continue and the only way they'll get it through their concrete heads is if compensation payouts to legal users are pursued and given.
Police wouldn't have dared to confiscate my prescribed morphine when I was on it yet they treat legal cannabis users like were all criminals.
It takes seconds to get online and check the law. Any police officer that chooses not to shouldn't be on the force and can go fuck themselves.
Enough enough.
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Richie
- 2wk
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West Lancs police don’t have an active training policy on medical cannabis and always refer back to the prescription being shown to prove legality. They will also arrest you if your MC is not in the original container (which again is not a legal requirement, especially when in dosing capsules etc).
Might be worth taking up the chain though, as although your conversation was pretty “nice”, it would have been a lot more positive if they took away to actively provide a reference sheet/training comms to officers on the actual legal amendments from 2018.
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Ihopeyouknow
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Good luck, I look forward to hearing how it went.
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EvenNet
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Ask them if they are actually told that medical cannabis legal. Goodluck mate
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Richie
- 2wk
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Ask the police, Question 885:
https://www.askthe.police.uk/faq/?id=978c0ee1-93c0-ec11-983e-002248438848
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Mupps
- 2wk
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They may get confused and talk about the Cancard (my local station did this when I asked their policy!) The prescription is a legal permission to possess, and its is legal to use only in the way listed. Ie, you cant bake it into brownies legally. The ability to possess and use in line with the prescription is a Statutory defense iirc. The Cancard is intended for those who would qualify to be prescribed legal cannabis if it were available on the NHS, but cannot afford a legal prescription. In these cases, they have a probable medical defense, so most officers would drop it unless you have other drugs on you etc.
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