'Our cannabis laws are knackered': Ex-cop councillor says it's time to end the 'status quo' and legalise marijuana

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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’.

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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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“As a former police officer back in my salad days I regularly went on such warrants so wasn’t too surprised by what I saw.

“Ten years on nothing has changed except the technology for growth seems to have advanced, bar it seems common knowledge that the business