Working alongside medicinal weed advocacy group Cancard, the forces are trialling a new scheme to reduce the smell of cannabis in social housing.
Multiple police forces in the UK are trialling a scheme where they give out weed vapes to medicinal cannabis users to reduce the smell of weed in social housing.
Cancard, an advocacy group who provide medicinal weed users with an ID card recognised by police, and a helpline for the police to validate cannabis prescriptions during a stop and search, are behind the scheme. The problem with weed is that, unlike any other drug with the possible exception of mephedrone, the smell lingers like clouds around a mountain top. This sometimes causes complaints in social housing.
“We are currently trialling an inhaler scheme with a few forces in the UK,” Cancard founder Carly Barton told THE FACE. “If a Cancard patient is causing a smell complaint, then the police have access to a free stock of medical inhalers so that an intervention can be made without criminalisation or affecting a vulnerable person’s tenancy.”
Police taking part in the scheme can then deal with more serious crime rather than ferrying themselves back and forth to mediate between sick people who need cannabis and neighbours who are pissed off about the smell.
Source: https://theface.com/life/the-police-are-giving-out-free-weed-vapes-medicinal-cannabis-drugs-politics
