Oh the vicious irony:
Huge drug bust results in over 250 arrests:
A massive undercover cannabis operation netting more than 250 suspects on 750 charges will break the cornerstone of the industry, police say.
Crackdowns on drug dealers led to rise in violent crime:
Police crackdowns to cut the supply of illegal drugs by removing dealers and criminal overlords actually lead to rises in drug-related violence, gun crime and murder, according to an international study. A review of 20 years of research into drug enforcement has found that attempts to snuff out the trade in illegal substances have the opposite effect to that intended, by creating a power vacuum when drugs barons are imprisoned which is rapidly filled by competitors eager to fight each other for the newly-vacated territory.
