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Four Thought: Spice In Prison

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06/04/2016

Spice In Prison

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Stuart J Cole warns of the crisis in UK prisons posed by 'spice', a synthetic cannabis.

Stuart J Cole warns of the crisis in UK prisons posed by 'spice', a synthetic cannabis, and advocates a controversial way to tackle it.

Stuart J. Cole, a writer and drugs counsellor - with past personal experience of addiction and prison - warns of a crisis in our prisons caused by "spice", a synthetic cannabis. He advocates a controversial way to tackle the problem. "Lower the punishment for cannabis," he says, "until a means of detection can be put in place along with punishment." 

Producer: Sheila Cook.

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