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Drugscope charity:
"In 1987 just over 26,000 people were found guilty in a court or given a caution for a drug offence in the UK. This figure has risen sharply each year and reached over 127,100 people in 1997.
Of the 1998 figure over 78,000 people were sentenced in court and almost 60,000 were given a caution.
Offences committed in 1998 were:

Offence	Number of people
Possession of cannabis	89,129
Possession of other drugs	32,799
Possession with intent to supply drugs	9,290
Unlawful supply of drugs	6,974
Unlawful production of cannabis	3,190
Unlawful import or export of drugs	1,152
Other offences	1,272
Permitting premises to be used for unlawful purposes	825
Unlawful production of drugs other than cannabis	317
Total	127,919

Of these people 89 per cent were male and 11 per cent were female. 6 per cent were under 17 years old, 28 per cent were 17 to 20, 21 per cent were 21-24, 20 per cent were 25-29 and 25 per cent were aged 30 and over."
www.drugscope.org.uk/druginfo/drugsearch/faq_template.asp?file=\wip\11\1\2\convicted.html

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs report 'The classification of cannabis under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971':
"3.5 The number of seizures, by police and customs officers, increased in line with the rise in self-reported use from 17,227 in 1981 to 114,667 in 1998. The number of seizures fell, in 1999, to 97,356. In that year, police and customs officers seized a total of 71 tonnes of cannabis preparations, of which 53 tonnes were accounted for by cannabis resin. In the same year there were 15,108 seizures of heroin and 13,194 seizures of amphetamines.
3.6 The number of cannabis offences (as persons found guilty, cautioned, given a fiscal offence, or dealt with by compounding) rose from 15,388 in 1981 to 99,140 in 1998 before falling to 88,548 in 1999. Over 90 per cent of such recorded cannabis offences in 1999 were for ‘unlawful possession’. Offences related to heroin and amphetamines in 1999 were 12,760 and 12,102 (respectively)."
http://www.doh.gov.uk/drugs/acmd/cannabisreportmar02.pdf

The Green Party:
"The Chief Inspector of Prisons recently stated that 72% of prisoners are jailed for drug law related crime."
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/leaflets/policypointers/drugs.pdf