{"id":6596,"date":"2010-05-01T11:54:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T11:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=6596"},"modified":"2010-05-06T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T10:36:12","slug":"people-on-drugs-are-far-more-likely-to-commit-crime-especially-violent-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2010\/05\/people-on-drugs-are-far-more-likely-to-commit-crime-especially-violent-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"People On Drugs Are Far More Likely To Commit Crime, Especially Violent Crime&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Half of all crime suspects arrested by police admit to recently smoking cannabis, astonishing UK Government research reveals. For younger offenders, the figures are even more stark. Some 57% say they have smoked the drug &#8211; which Labour controversially downgraded &#8211; in the past month. It proves for the first time a firm link between cannabis and serious offending. It is used by more suspects than any other drug &#8211; including heroin and crack cocaine. &#8220;We have long said that drugs fuel all sorts of crime. This is because they both undermine a person\u2019s sense of responsibility but also because takers and addicts need money to feed their habit,&#8221; said Shadow Home Secretary David Davis.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:  Daily Mail, January 5, 2007.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of all crime suspects arrested by police admit to recently smoking cannabis, astonishing UK Government research reveals. For younger offenders, the figures are even more stark. Some 57% say they have smoked the drug &#8211; which Labour controversially downgraded &#8211; in the past month. It proves for the first time a firm link between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-crime-violence-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}