UK: Cannabis convictions plummet by more than a quarter in Buckinghamshire

However, number of people admitting to using cannabis in the South East has gone up

The number of people caught with cannabis has fallen by more than a quarter in four years in Buckinghamshire.

There were 874 cannabis possession offences recorded in the county back in 2011/12. 

That compared to 634 in 2014/15 - the last full year's worth of figures.

This makes a fall of 27.5 per cent in four years.

The number of people admitting to cannabis use in the South East has actually gone up very slightly over this same four-year time period.

Some 6.9% of people in the region told the Home Office they had used the drug in a survey in 2014/15.

The number of people caught with cannabis in Chiltern has come down by 18.5 four years. 

There were 110 cases of people found with marijuana on them last year in the district, working out at...

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