An ex-cop councillor has called for cannabis to be legalised, claiming the current laws for tackling the Class B drug are "knackered".
Coun Matt Wynne previously served with Cheshire Police, but now represents the people of Edgeley and Cheadle Heath, while studying for a graduate diploma in law.
He recently accompanied police on a raid of a Stockport house where cannabis was being grown on a ‘commercial scale’. READ MORE : Welcome to the Stexit: The big questions for Stockport after leaving Greater Manchester's masterplan While the warrant - part of Operation Avro - threw up few surprises for Coun Wynne, it did reinforce his belief that an overhaul of the law is long overdue. “I have increasingly thought for a good number of years that how we ‘deal’ with cannabis in this country is knackered,” he told the Local Democracy Reporting Service . “ In the living room was a lad in handcuffs, mustn’t have been much over 20, every room bar the living room was full of cannabis plants near ready for harvest.
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