Would you report - yes or no?

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Quick poll:

A person you know, not family, is growing, using and selling weed (in high enough quantities to turn a tidy profit) year round.

Would you report them to the police?

No, definitely wouldn't report it. I support legalisation of drugs and do not believe in imprisoning individuals for selling a natural growing plant to others.

Just resort it. Call 101 and you can remain anonymous.

I real can't believe that people think this is acceptable. These dealers arrunning a business and if cocaine or heroin become more lucrative for them they they will sell it. Would you want your dc's to become a paying customer?

I have anonymously reported two cannabis dealers - both had stretches in prison as a result, and one was a childhood friend. I wouldn't hesitate to do it again.

LimitedEdition agreed, under age drinking is common, but alcohol and its effects are discussed openly in society, as are campaigns for responsible drinking.

There are safeguards that at least aim to keep it away from kids.
Weed and harder drugs are not sold by a shopkeeper who can make a judgement call as to whether you're old enough or sober enough.
Kids are more likely to get their hands on booze in their parents drinks cabinet which is preferable to my mind than some adult in a transit parked on street corners getting a 13 year old to do his drug running.

I can't condone it. A lot of parents would be clueless about drugs and what to look out for. You can only try to educate your kids to the dangers and consequences and hope for the best it would seem.

My area of London is awash with the smell of weed and it seems no one gives a shit. Apart from the Parents of the silly little sod at the end of my street that have had the drug squad ransack their home twice.

These dealers arrunning a business and if cocaine or heroin become more lucrative for them they they will sell it

If?

Cocaine and heroin are much more lucrative though?

I'm not annoyed at the tax free income. I'd be annoyed that someone was selling drugs in the neighbourhood my children are growing up in. Ridiculous comment!

Given that they are turning a decent profit, I'd report, especially if I suspected they were in receipt of significant benefits.

I wouldn't if it was just a little bit for own consumption.

No I wouldn't.

No I would keep my nose out of it.

I know loads of people who smoke weed and don't use other drugs.

Me too usual and they have been smoking it for years, yet never gone onto use other drugs.

Where there are drug dealers there is other organised crime. I went on a drug bust with my local police force. This guy was selling massive quantities of cannabis from his normal, suburban home. He employed about 30 local kids as lookouts, 3 other smaller-time dealers and about 10 'enforcer' type people.

He had even bought a small plane and trained a local bouncer as a pilot to import bigger quantities from Europe. A few years before all this he had just been a normal guy.

This kind of thing is terrible for communities trying to live quiet lives. They end up feeling threatened, intimidated, fearful for their safety even if no-one has explicitly said anything to them. Imagine living next door to a drug dealer. All kinds of undesirables turning up at all hours.

I said no don't report it.

I used to smoke weed yes. I did from the age of 16 until I was 27. The only reason I don't now is because I quit smoking cigarettes due to the cost involved. So had to quit weed as well because I smoked it as opposed to baking with it.

Never drink alcohol though, and never have done. Seen far too much damage done to friends and family through drink. It's a disgusting drug which causes health and social issues in abundance and ruins many many many lives.

Oh how I loved having a nice fat joint and relaxing on a summers evening after a long day at work.

No I wouldn't, and I do know a family, I have no idea about their 'profit'.

So yes, I would report in a heartbeat.

Strokey - People that report are just annoyed at the tax free income - quite rightly so. Do you think it's ok not to pay tax on your income? This is a separate argument from the drug ethics one but no less valid.

Yes I would. Weed was a contributary factor to my brothers' addiction problems, mental health issues and ultimately his murder.

I would happily report. If that stopped one more family going through what mine did, then I'd be satisfied.

Yep. Straight away.

No.

I find this whole thread such depressing reading :(

bloody hell the amount of people who don't care!

I would report someone growing and selling

I do however support the legalisation of cannabis.

Of those saying 'no', how would you feel if your kids got involved?

Like properly involved in dealing to the point of prison sentences?

Would you want that for your kids any more than you'd want them to grow up an alcoholic? Would you intervene if you saw kids necking cider night after night in the local park?

At what point do people decide there's nothing to be done?

Yes.

Although chances are Police are aware and don't have enough evidence to do anything....

Using? No.
Growing and selling? Yes.

Seen too many of my old school friends die as addicts in the last couple of years, they started on cannabis when we were at school.
Some of the crowd either don't take anything now or only have an occasional smoke, but for every one of them there are two or three addicts and there have been 7 deaths in the last couple of years.

I'd have to disagree with those who say its not a gateway drug.

No. Unless they're stood outside a school selling it, then I'd have a problem with it. If they're just selling their surplus to friends then no problem.