We hope the powers that be will carefully consider the call by Pc Leigh Thompson, the police's local drugs expert, to reclassify cannabis from Class C back to B.

While the figures of cautions may not seem to be a huge increase, it cannot be debated that many sectors of society now see cannabis use as more acceptable and very unlikely to attract the full focus of the law.

To walk down the street and smell the unmistakable aroma is becoming more commonplace.

But just more widespread use of this drug is not what should be fully examined. If it is provable that stronger strains are leading to more long term health problems, particularly mental, then the Government must act.