“It Is Illegal” | Weed ‘Epidemic’ In Britain As Police ‘Fail’ To Tackle Crisis

Police say they have dismantled a significant suspected cannabis operation linked to the INLA in the Strabane area.

Following a planned search, cannabis plants with an estimated street value of £1.4 million were seized.

Former Met Police detective Peter Bleksley joins Talk’s Peter Cardwell to discuss this further.

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50 Comments

  1. @yalnevatekofreedom5096 on August 21, 2025 at 3:17 pm

    Genesis 1:29 i give you ALL herb baring seeds to consume

  2. @beed6654 on August 21, 2025 at 3:17 pm

    More likely to commit crime, what a load of rubbish, I’m 40yrs old and haven’t been arrested or guilty of any crime since I was 16yrs old. Weed is legal I have it on prescription. Alcohol and cigarettes kill more people then all the drugs combined and it’s legal what a surprise. Weed helps you relax not give you energy to commit crime. Weed hasn’t killed 1 person and different strains help for different medical reasons. Weed does more good medically then all pharmaceuticals combined. Pharmaceuticals are loaded with opioids which is more pure then heroine, and very addictive. Anyone on them come off and weed will be your best friend with none of these long term side effects.

  3. @wils35 on August 21, 2025 at 3:20 pm

    The most dangerous part of cannabis is it not being legalised.

  4. @reecerobinson9750 on August 21, 2025 at 3:21 pm

    If youre ‘on cannabis’ youre more likely to commit crime? What on earth are you talking about fella

  5. @WhoThisMonkey on August 21, 2025 at 3:21 pm

    ‘It is illegal.’

    When you have a government who make the most irrational and ridiculous decisions _constantly,_ Why should anyone listen to them?

    I mean, Religion isn’t even banned, when it is the biggest unaliver of our species to date.

    Heck, even the idea of ‘voting’ is one big bandwagon fallacy, lets ask the masses to vote on issues they have *ZERO* understanding of, this is not going to provide the best answer, it’s going to put the manipulative brain types into positions of authority.

    NO I’M NOT A COMMUNIST.

  6. @chrisgowans-d8y on August 21, 2025 at 3:23 pm

    They have never even tries it.. they just label it all bad!!! Theyre idiots

  7. @nickbusley6645 on August 21, 2025 at 3:23 pm

    Someone needs some serious education regarding Cannabis and the Endocannabinoid system we’re all born with. Both of those uneducated plonkers have thousands of them and they don’t even know ❤

  8. @Jay-el2dv on August 21, 2025 at 3:23 pm

    The government won’t legalise imo because they are like "oh no, we can’t possibly do that, we’re British don’t you know

  9. @synapsexmusic on August 21, 2025 at 3:24 pm

    Propaganda

  10. @AIIan54 on August 21, 2025 at 3:24 pm

    💯,legalise and tax it

  11. @GaryRichards-g5d on August 21, 2025 at 3:24 pm

    No it’s not I get my weed through a private doctor I always have about 10 grams of weed in my house and the police can’t do a thing as it’s legal for me I have a script for it

  12. @carlbland68 on August 21, 2025 at 3:24 pm

    Well illegal or not i will smoke 😂

  13. @WhoThisMonkey on August 21, 2025 at 3:24 pm

    Alcohol is worse than weed, and I don’t even smoke it anymore.

    Go to a pub, and you will always find aggro from drunkards.

  14. @Stroms.g on August 21, 2025 at 3:25 pm

    It’s not the plant it’s the person who dictates behaviour many tokers are in fact otherwise law abiding citizens, the law in the case of c is crass and outdated.peace

  15. @VinylStash on August 21, 2025 at 3:25 pm

    the lack of education is staggering, what about medical users? do they not know is been medically legal since 2018?

  16. @terrydunbar-cz1pd on August 21, 2025 at 3:27 pm

    Clearly clueless!!!

  17. @dionfox6090 on August 21, 2025 at 3:30 pm

    I only call them drug dealers because it’s not taxed at the moment

  18. @DisturbedFX_ on August 21, 2025 at 3:32 pm

    MEDICAL CANNABIS HAS BEEN LEGAL IN THE UK SINCE 2018

  19. @danielygm8335 on August 21, 2025 at 3:32 pm

    Rodney…

  20. @pauladamson5215 on August 21, 2025 at 3:32 pm

    Its the idiot comiting the crime
    Not the joint he smoked
    People love to blame weed for all the worlds problems
    Grow up
    Get a grip
    Pot heads dont commit crime,,
    Just scape goats to blame for crimes these animals commit

  21. @JakePreston-c5m on August 21, 2025 at 3:35 pm

    Absolute nonsense. So out of touch 😂 Do they know its legal with a private prescription. I have 60 grams of lovely strains delivered to my door every 4 wks. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  22. @nowhere474 on August 21, 2025 at 3:35 pm

    SEEMS THAT POSH PEDOPHILES (especially royal family) IN THE UK ARE A FAR GREATER PROBLEM

  23. @kylemonaghan5717 on August 21, 2025 at 3:35 pm

    Illegal? It’s a prescription drug now?
    More likely to be involved in crime while on cannabis? Examples? 😂

  24. @garrybartlett6853 on August 21, 2025 at 3:36 pm

    Clearly, if you smoke cannabis you commit crime…

    Well, thank you very much…

    If you are a journilsit you are a pedo… hiw you like that…?

  25. @KIRBZVIDS on August 21, 2025 at 3:38 pm

    id say it the other way around when you run out of drugs then you go out and do crime to buy more

  26. @edwardgraham8854 on August 21, 2025 at 3:41 pm

    Government white stuff on the train planes and automobiles straight right up the nose we seen it we see it there having a laugh 😂😂😂😂😂❤

  27. @Joe-m8z5j on August 21, 2025 at 3:42 pm

    You are absolutely ridiculous.. this whole channel is ridiculous..just shuddup..

  28. @LucyG587 on August 21, 2025 at 3:43 pm

    Medically legal absolutely, obviously people can live how they want to live no judgement (but families and children really don’t want to smell this or be around it the smell is absolutely awful) that’s just my opinion sorry 🙏

  29. @davidedgar7338 on August 21, 2025 at 3:44 pm

    meanwhle….. all we have is a joint. no housing, no money, no fucking chance with this government treating us as third class after the illegal immigrants and rainbow perverts. normies last in line for lufe so fuck it. 🤬

  30. @davidedgar7338 on August 21, 2025 at 3:46 pm

    this old boomer is a muppet

  31. @MR_Devils_lettuce on August 21, 2025 at 3:47 pm

    Dude please. Get a grip, honestly get a grip, you pompous so and so’s. I’m a hard-working, paying citizen, and I smoke weed every now and then to relax and help me deal with my pain. I’ve had cancer twice, and if it wasn’t for cannabis, I would not still be here. You people sound so ridiculous, honestly, you just make matters worse.

  32. @InfiniteCookie3-jo2bb on August 21, 2025 at 3:51 pm

    My brother just got back from the shops and there’s people drinking everywhere….. being loud and aggressive…. And because it’s summer everyone’s drinking…. How about sorting that out first. seeing as some of us have to avoid the shops and keep away from the summer drunkenness.

  33. @michaelz6870 on August 21, 2025 at 3:51 pm

    Silly and dumb, white 🤡unts.

  34. @barryw9480 on August 21, 2025 at 3:51 pm

    What about if its on prescription?

  35. @MikeTaylor-no3li on August 21, 2025 at 3:53 pm

    This looks like prescription discrimination, disability discrimination, this pair should be charged, for attacking, all disabled people in this way, disgusting 💚

  36. @tobyFOTS on August 21, 2025 at 3:54 pm

    It’s a crime yet you can get medical weed in the UK… Man these guys are stuck in the past.

  37. @doaSkid69 on August 21, 2025 at 3:54 pm

    The smell of cannabis is a sign that you might find chilled dudes and food nearby

  38. @curls9032 on August 21, 2025 at 3:54 pm

    There are 9 bars in our parliment building, nine.

  39. @deadmanwalking5576 on August 21, 2025 at 3:55 pm

    If you’re on alcohol then you’re more likely to be involved in a fight

  40. @Mozmusic85 on August 21, 2025 at 3:57 pm

    My cannabis is legal and prescribed. The smell doesnt mean crime. The Police need to educate themselves and go after the Albanian and Chinese farms.

  41. @stevevranic9811 on August 21, 2025 at 3:57 pm

    How can he say "when you’re on cannabis you’re more likely to commit crime"? This guy clearly doesn’t know regular type smokers hahaha

  42. @vipthcsouthwales on August 21, 2025 at 3:59 pm

    U are so far out of touch with this subject its unreal,its 2025 ffs,there are nearly 50 thousand legal medical cannabis patients in the uk, some of them are children,and are legally prescribed medical cannabis,a 1 size fits all aproach has long passed,u can not discriminate against us legal patients,who legally medicate with prescribed cannabis flower,the smell of cannabis alone does not mean there is a crime being commited,legal patients are still being stigmatised due to your shoddy reporting on a subject u really know nothing about,all u know about is the criminal side of cannabis and its about time u were properlly educated on the medical benefits,and also the current uk law which legalised medical cannabis thc in 2018,not just cbd like this guy makes out either,thats 7 years it has been legal for medicinal use in the uk,yet u still think the smell of cannabis means crime lol,get a grip ffs

  43. @synapsexmusic on August 21, 2025 at 3:59 pm

    So out of touch weed saved me from hard drugs. I dont drink alcohol because I like to stay level and in control. Alcohol is a home wrecker

  44. @dogstar5572 on August 21, 2025 at 4:00 pm

    Decriminalisation is the only way. We are in prohibition, didn’t go well banning alcohol did it? No one ever died from cannabis, plenty have died from drinking alcohol. Alcohol makes some people violent, weed doesn’t.

  45. @Hoodhippydave on August 21, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    This is just ridiculous. I would guess that this rubbish about this samari sword killer doing it because he was on weed is perfect timing to reignite this ridiculous argument. Why is the Netherlands not looking like a Bruce Lee movie with everyone fighting he had psychological issues, and the news is just hen picking as usual all I hear is a lot of people on tv talking about things they no very little about (ask professor David Nutt )

  46. @littlebylittle1686 on August 21, 2025 at 4:05 pm

    "if you’re on cannabis you’re more likely to commit crime…." Eh what?!

  47. @TheSubstance2010 on August 21, 2025 at 4:09 pm

    what a load of rubbish,cannabis dont lead to crime people do

  48. @AIIan54 on August 21, 2025 at 4:11 pm

    Awe aye but nothing said about starmer,macron and the German chancellor sniffing coke on the train,give me peace

  49. @MartinClarke-bj4fo on August 21, 2025 at 4:14 pm

    I cant stand it however its everywhere should just legalise it and tax it like smoking

  50. @yo_delboy on August 21, 2025 at 4:14 pm

    You know criminals drink alcohol as well right. Some folk just want to chill and have a smoke before bed after a hard days graft. Some have a wine, some have a whiskey, some have a beer, some have a fucking smoke . Alcohol was illegal once.

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