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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

UNBELIEVABLE: Cannabis use not benign says judge after sadiq khan s call for decriminalisation - Caught on Camera

Cannabis is “not a benign drug”, a senior London judge has said as he jailed a young man whose life has been derailed by drug use.

Judge Martin Edmunds KC, the Recorder of Kensington and Chelsea, made the remark as he sentenced 22-year-old Marvellous Adegha to a 15-month prison sentence for trying to smuggle herbal cannabis through Heathrow Airport.

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