The UK commercial drug scene is so full of rip off artists that are not much more than thieves who would otherwise be robbing petrol stations. The scumiest of which will generally be the local police approved dealer because they can give lots of information to them about many things. Even the degrading to class C was just a way to keep the corrupt profits between the villians importing it & the establishment investors. If you check the law cultivation was never de classified & if declassification was a legitimate attempt to switch resources to targeting dealers then people growing their own should be considered the lowest target on the police radar.

The argument about so called super skunks is a spurious one hyped by the media for headlines. The highest percentage of consumption in the UK is still poluted hash. Hash was stronger in the sixties than it is now. As for "Super Skunks" most green as it is called in the UK is wet so the trichomes have yet to really be chemically ready. It is also unlikely to be anywhere close to the advertised potential THC content even if it is good dry weed, I doubt over 13%. In addition if the government was seriously not interested in the potential income why did they advertise in the Times 6 or 7 years ago for economists to interview those arrested as an attempt to value the industry.