Should You Lose Your Passport If You Get Arrested For Weed? UK residents fight new proposal!

You should now consider smoking a joint when traveling in the UK. People in Wales and England could face tougher penalties, including the risk of losing their passports or driving licenses as a result of recently proposed new cannabis regulations. However, some people believe it is a fairly blatant attack on the middle class.

The Home Office released the white paper document in July under the heading “Fast, Safe, Hard New Impact on Drug Possession.” People arrested for drug-related offenses could risk losing their driving licenses and passports as the UK government steps up efforts to tackle the plague of drug abuse in society. The government agency responsible for security, immigration and law and order is the Ministry of the Interior.

Defaults in Wales and England would now be subject to a three strike system. This system divides offenses into three levels. According to The Telegraph, the new system will hit the country’s middle class hardest, leading to nightclub bans over arbitrary drug penalties. And just to start with: Losing your passport and driving license could happen next.

AN ATTACK ON THE MEDIUM SECTOR

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that middle class cannabis users will have no place to hide and people caught using drugs will be asked to take drug awareness courses (equivalent to speed awareness courses) and may be subject to higher fines risk of losing the right to travel or even to drive.

The Prime Minister explained that they need to find new ways to punish these people. Things that will really hamper their lives, he added. Therefore, we will consider confiscating their passports and licenses. everything is on the table. The Prime Minister added that these are new methods of punishing people who use recreational drugs like cannabis, with the ultimate aim of stopping both the demand and supply of illegal drugs in the UK.

THE THREE STRIKES PENALTY SYSTEM

The three strikes system, widely used, is a law enforcement structure created to discourage crime at a higher rate. Nevertheless, it is criticized by interest groups.

In a first strike, any person caught with illegal drugs would have to pay for a drug awareness course that makes their attendance mandatory, and if they refuse, they would face a larger fine or prosecution.

Second defaulters are warned, asked to take an additional drug education course, and are subject to mandatory random drug testing for a period of up to ninety days.

Individuals charged for a third time are likely to be arrested and, if convicted under a civil court verdict, could face a disqualification order banning them from nightclubs and other entertainment venues, and they could still have their drivers’ licenses or passports are taken from them.

Current laws dealing with drug users carry endless fines and up to seven years in prison. Also, the new white paper Swift, Certain, Tough, the new repercussion for drugs proposes getting drug users to wear labels.

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AGREE

The White Paper makes it clear that drugs cause great harm to young people and children, affecting their health, ability to study and work. The White Paper does not distinguish between cannabis and other drugs.

Drug abuse puts people’s lives at risk, fuels crime and serious and violent crime, and also leads to the heinous exploitation of vulnerable and young people, said Home Secretary Priti Patel. He added that they are prosecuting drug use with harsher consequences for the celebrated recreational drug users, who will deny the consequences of their actions through sanctions, including fines and requirements to attend rehabilitation courses, while drug offenders, as previously mentioned, could have their see confiscated passports and driving licenses.

The MP further explained that in line with the strategy to combat the dangerous effects of drugs, they aim to reverse the growing trend of drug use in society in order to protect the public from violence and harm from drug abuse.

The new legislation will later go through a 12-week discussion period, which will take place around seven months after the government releases its 10-year drug plan.

RESEARCH SAYS…

Some researchers discovered that between 2011 and 2020 there was a seventy-two percent increase in drug poisoning-related deaths and a roughly 2 percent increase in “regular drug users,” who were described as using any substance more than once a year had last year according to the latest Crime Survey for Wales and England.

It’s almost unbelievable for a nation that normally uses cannabis. Private sector physicians who are on the board of directors of the Medical Association can legally prescribe marijuana-infused products for medicinal purposes.

According to a survey by the Association for the Cannabinoid Industry (ACI), a group in the cannabis industry, one in five UK adults has indulged in CBD oil or flower, and 58% of respondents believe it has overall health benefits. The United Die The UK government even became a co-owner of a CBD company after changing the emergency loan scheme.

FINAL EFFECT

So it seems to have become a problem smoking weed or consuming cannabis-infused products in the UK, or at least getting caught doing it… for the third time (lol). Jokes aside, the new legislation with the three strike system is a strict rule; The law was passed to combat the rapid increase in cannabis use and the adverse effects of its use. To prove how serious this new law will be, it goes deeper than just fines as you risk even losing your passport and in some other cases I even face jail time.

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