A DEALER'S VIEW

"I'm not sure it will make much difference to me. It's not as if I run a
shop and suddenly there'll be all these new customers. I sell small amounts
of dope to friends and friends of friends, and they've already made their
minds up about smoking.

"I don't make an awful lot of money from selling weed. Usually it works out
that I just get my personal gear for free rather than making a profit, and
I still have to work to make a living.

"The people who make the big money are a few links up the chain, the people
who sell it to the people I buy it from. These guys have no interest in
seeing cannabis legalised. If that happened, all their profit would
disappear overnight and go to the government instead.

"The big dealers will be delighted with this.

Reclassification means there'll be less stigma attached to cannabis and
less risk of prosecution, so more people will smoke."