Hmmm . So how do the drugs get to the hedge then? Is it a crack hedge (which grows its own) or does the dealer take it, on his person, and then stash it there (carrying ALL the drugs in his pocket, making him even more suseptable to a police sniffer dog!!)?
NO drug dealer would stash a whole supply in a bush, this is stupid and flawed in every respect. Picture a smack addict getting his next fix. He is desparate, shaking and sweating from withdrawls and had to commit a robbery half an hour before in order to have enough to pay for his next hit. He hands over £10 to the dealer for a small bag, and the dealer directs him to a bush where his WHOLE STASH of herion is located. Do you think this desparate and trust worthy smack addict will only take £10 worth?? Of course not, he'll take the whole lot!! And anyway, most city centre dealers have difficulty finding convenient hedges... Despite saying you worked with addicts, I feel you are slightly ignorant to the real world of drugs and crime and the anguish it fuels.
Just my two cents worth as I cant stand it when people over emphasise 'civil liberties' to the extent that criminals have more rights than decent hard working people who suffer as a result of their actions. I wish we could build more prisons and fill them right up to bursting point, and not have any scum out on licence or parole because of restricted prison space, commiting even more crimes, but thats another topic for another day...
Takes deep breath.....
To answer your questions in order.
1, Most drug dealers are users themselves, and they sell some of their stash, very few dealers are 'Mr Bigs' they are users that swap and trade, Amphet for Diazapan for example.
Usually if they are dealing with somone they do no know well they will hide the 'deal' and then at the meet up point take the money and direct the buyer to where the drugs are hidden. The advantage is that if they are stopped by the police they may have cash but no stuff on them,most dealers do not have huge amounts of the stuff
2, I am not ignorent of the 'real world' I have worked with ex offenders and with the probation service, I am drugs trained and have had personal experience of a member of the family who was sadly lost to drug addiction, I have had my personal possesions stolen and had drug dealers knocking on the door looking to get paid , so no lectures about anguish if you please
3, As for Civil liberties they are hard won and easily lost, building more prisons will not help one iota , as you can get the same drugs in there as you can in the street , they just cost more!! If you want to halt the use of drugs then provide well paying jobs, for our young people and houses they can afford , heroin is a great excape if you have no hope :shrug:
4,The war on drugs is lost, you can now buy legal highes that replicate street drugs from the internet, and anyway alcohol is far more damaging and is cheaper to buy.
So there you have it next time you see a grim faced PC and sniffer dogs at a railway station do not delude yourself that they are fighting the war against drugs , they are infact 'going through the motions', giving a pretense that they are proactive, so the Daily Heil reading members of the public feel safer when sadly the truth is they like us all have have lost
. So how do the drugs get to the hedge then? Is it a crack hedge (which grows its own) or does the dealer take it, on his person, and then stash it there (carrying ALL the drugs in his pocket, making him even more suseptable to a police sniffer dog!!)? 
Disgusted by the remarks. Not wasting my time entertaining him.