Casual drug users could be fined, made to take drug tests, and wear monitoring tags under a new Home Office proposal. The tougher penalties described in the plan detail how people caught with cannabis and cocaine would be fined or forced to pay for a drug awareness course.
Repeat offenders could lose their passport and driving licence in measures described as "a step towards changing the damaging culture of drug use and the consumption of drugs" even for "so-called recreational users"
The penalties are part of efforts to help tackle the "scourge of substance abuse in society which devastates lives and tears communities apart, as well as make our streets safer".
