Cannabis May Be Reclassified As Class B

[Oz]

The penalty for possession of cannabis could be made more severe as the Government considers a U-turn on the controversial issue.

 

The drug was downgraded from class B to class C in January 2004 - making its possession a largely non-arrestable offence.

 

But Gordon Brown told MPs today that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith would consider moving the drug back to class B.

 

Any such move would be part of a wider review of the Government's drug strategy.

 

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) will be asked to look at reports that cannabis is becoming more dangerous because stronger strains of the drug are more widely available.

 

More potent forms of cannabis could have harsher side effects on mental health.

 

It is the second time the ACMD has been asked to review former Home Secretary David Blunkett's decision.

 

His successor Charles Clarke commissioned a review but in 2005 announced that cannabis would remain a class C drug.

 

Mr Blunkett said: "I'm quite relaxed about yet another re-examination.

 

"However, it is worth reflecting that cannabis use amongst young people has fallen and the campaign to educate and inform young people has been the most successful government information programme in recent years."

Date: 18/07/07

Source: Sky News

Copyright: 2007 BSkyB

[Frazz]

Yep it had to come i guess, what with all the cannabis factories mainly for profit as opposed to the personel grower, it went out of control and pple renting huge mansions for the purpose of growing for profit only , but it does demonstrate what a colossal industry cannabis could be if planned and regulated properly ... so i wonder how this will affect the seedshops / banks in the UK .. will they have to close up and move to Spain ?

 

Prohibition, which creates a massive black market and underground economy, with guns and violence to protect profits, will cause more harm though.

 

[MongyMan]

"However, it is worth reflecting that cannabis use amongst young people has fallen and the campaign to educate and inform young people has been the most successful government information programme in recent years."

 

Yes very successful, Alchohol, Ice etc. are much safer drugs for them. What twats.

 

Peace MongyMan

[Frazz]

'ullo, ullo, ullo ... whats all this fuss about

 

The gateway drug to politics?

 

 

Last Modified: 19 Jul 2007

By: Channel 4 News

 

Jacqui Smith has joined some illustrious company in admitting she smoked cannabis.

 

Here are some other political figures of all persuasions who have made cannabis confessions.

 

* US President Bill Clinton admitted he tried the drug at Oxford University but famously said he never inhaled. Mind you, he also said he did not have "sexual relations" with Monica Lewinsky.

 

# Former cabinet office Minister Mo Mowlam admitted smoking the drug at university. The self-proclaimed "child of the 60s" said she didn't particularly enjoy it.

 

 

# London Mayor hopeful Boris Johnson told GQ magazine he had smoked pot - mainly before university. He also said he had taken cocaine.

 

 

# This year Tory leader David Cameron finally confirmed long-held claims he had smoked pot. He confirmed a Daily Mail report saying he experimented with the drug at Eton.

 

 

# Former Home Secretary Charles Clarke, who was fired in the most recent reshuffle, also admitted smoking cannabis while a student.

 

 

# Yvette Cooper, the minister for housing: "I did try cannabis while at university, like a lot of students, and it is something that I have left behind."

 

 

# Peter Hain, Work and Pensions Secretary: "I remember, when I was 19, someone trying to stick a spliff or whatever you call them into my mouth, angry that I wasn't smoking it."

 

 

# Francis Maude, former Conservative party chairman: "It was hard to go through Cambridge in the 70s without doing it a few times."

 

 

# Oliver Letwin, chairman of policy review: "Some friends put dope in my pipe. It had no effect on me but I was extremely angry."

 

 

# Lord Lamont, the former chancellor: "I have not smoked cannabis. But I did eat a tiny bit of cannabis cake and all I can say is I enjoyed the cake but that is all.

 

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/poli...politics/610462

 

This is really sick when the same British polititians introduced in November 2005 the 24-hour drinking laws allowing alcohol availablity at anytime of the day ... which has resulted in a tripling of the number of people taken to accident and emergency units with alcohol-related problems.

Another survey of 18 police forces that looked at incidents in city centres and near pubs and clubs showed the number of less serious woundings between 3am and 6am shot up by 133 per cent from 406 to 944 incidents.

 

[sunnycoaststoner]

# Peter Hain, Work and Pensions Secretary: "I remember, when I was 19, someone trying to stick a spliff or whatever you call them into my mouth, angry that I wasn't smoking it."

 

 

"a spliff or what ever you call them" hahaha this dude is still a smoker hahahaha