So what's happened? Researchers neatly summarise the impact of the reclassification of cannabis from class B to class C as "smaller than advocates hoped or opponents feared". The main change of course was that, in most cases, possession of cannabis by those aged over 18 would no longer lead to arrest but to a street warning. Younger people were to continue to be arrested.
OK - what did the researchers look at? There were interviews and surveys with police, young people and the public and they examined policing in four areas - one of which was an area with an active street drugs market.
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