This has been true for a while - in the 1990s when effective decriminalisation wasn't on the cards, I knew the son of a judge who was caught in the middle of Ed

This has been true for a while - in the 1990s when effective decriminalisation wasn't on the cards, I knew the son of a judge who was caught in the middle of Edinburgh with a shopping trolley full of cannabis plants. He got arrested, but didn't get anything worse than a slap on the wrist.