Teen Crisis Intervention weakens in Great Britain
It appears that teen crisis intervention has taken a back seat to pop criminal psychology in Great Britain. After all, why in the world would you want to punish a parent for smoking pot in front of their troubled teenagers? Family togetherness and all, right?
That is par for the course today, where social engineering judges try to play therapist instead of lay down the law.
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Exposing children to cannabis will be “punished” with nothing more than a ticking-off under the latest Government edict.
Police have been told smoking even the most dangerous types of the drug in front of a youngster should not prevent the offender escaping with only a controversial “formal warning”.
The sanction, which follows Labour’s decision to downgrade cannabis from Class B to C, carries no criminal record.
Campaigners said the Government was “sending entirely the wrong message” to children at risk of using the drug.
Youngsters who see a cannabis user taken away by the police, only to return minutes later boasting they have escaped with a slap on the wrist, will believe they have nothing to lose.
It comes as official figures reveal that, since the warnings were introduced, the number caught with cannabis has rocketed by 47 per cent.
In 2004/5 it was 88,263 but an alarming 130,406 last year.
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: “The Government’s chaotic and confused policy of declassification has already led to youngsters thinking it is OK to take the drug.
“What kind of signal will it send when youngsters see adults getting away with smoking the drug with a mere warning?
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