British have announced cannabis is being upgraded

[Frazz]

Government set to defy its own experts and upgrade cannabis again!

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The Government has finally confirmed cannabis is being restored to Class B status - bluntly snubbing the views of its own experts.

 

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith insisted the U-turn was necessary to safeguard "the future health of young people". She also unveiled a crackdown on cannabis "paraphernalia" such as pipes and even potentially posters that "glamorise" its use.

 

However, critics insisted Ms Smith was "crazy" to defy expert opinion, and accused her and Gordon Brown of "dithering" over how to deal with the drug.

 

The Prime Minister announced a review of the 2004 decision to downgrade cannabis shortly after taking over from Tony Blair last year. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) examined the issue on behalf of the Government, and concluded that cannabis should remain Class C based on its health risks.

 

A report from the group, published just hours before Ms Smith's statement to MPs, pointed to a "probable, but weak, causal link between psychotic illness, including schizophrenia, and cannabis use". However, despite stronger "skunk" varieties becoming more widely available, the drug played only a "modest role" in the development of these conditions in the population as a whole.

 

Ms Smith said she had given the report "careful consideration", but was rejecting its central recommendation.

 

"I have decided to reclassify cannabis to a Class B drug, subject to Parliamentary approval," she told the Commons. "There is a compelling case for us to act now rather than risk the future health of young people.

 

"Where there is a clear and serious problem, but doubt about the harm that will be caused, we must err on the side of caution and protect the public. I make no apology for that - I am not prepared to 'wait and see'."

 

Ms Smith said her decision took into account the "public perception" of the drug, and estimates that around four-fifths of cannabis seized on the streets was now skunk.

 

As a result the maximum penalty for possession of the drug will rise from two to five years by the end of this year. Warnings against cannabis use are also set to be put on cigarette paper packets, while the sale of seeds, pipes and even material encouraging people to smoke could be restricted.

 

Author: UK Press Association

Date: May 8 -08

Source: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=...ikzHWuAkgnX-1uA

Copyright:Copyright © 2008 The Press Association.

 

[brick]

Where there is a clear and serious problem, but doubt about the harm that will be caused, we must err on the side of caution and protect the public. I make no apology for that - I am not prepared to 'wait and see'."

 

 

That statement is what makes my blood boil. "Protect the public" What a load of shit. What they really mean is "We can't get the big hard drug dealers so we will make criminals out of the soft drug users" Easier for them to bust "normal" people who like to smoke. Going to push the price up as well.

Who is going to protect them from the government. And to take away their right to talk about it in a forum.

They couldn't protect the public from IRA bombings and the latest bombings. Bloody retards running our countries. What are they really scared of?

[WantDaChronic]

As a result the maximum penalty for possession of the drug will rise from two to five years by the end of this year. Warnings against cannabis use are also set to be put on cigarette paper packets, while the sale of seeds, pipes and even material encouraging people to smoke could be restricted.

i hope they dont clamp down on the seed business over there. the uk based seedbanks have much higher rates of gettings seeds into australia than those based in places like amsterdam so if they clamp down on seed sales it could fuck with the weed trade in alot of nations around the world

[Medusa]

And who is going to protect us from the Politicians of this world.

 

Wog

[Frazz]

OK , moreover this was an experiment in de-criminalization in our time , that , according to popularly elected government was a shitload more trouble than it was worth !!!

 

WHY ??

 

we can take this 'trial de-criminalization' and analyse why and where the laws went wrong ... this is a case not unlike that of South Australia's failed experiment to relax the laws regarding Cannabis ...

 

if we ever hope to have a chance for legalization we must be able to address the failings of recent attempts like these in UK

 

UK's problem was magnified by a huge influx of peoples from numerous third world countries, people who were so desperate to make money they would have no moral concerns when it came to renting huge home out and fitting it out with 20,000watts of bypassed electricity filling every room with Cannabis and having young as 12 year-old 'slave' kids from vietnam tending the plants an spraying fine glass into the buds before selling to unsuspecting public !! ..

 

you know something about this world ? ... there is enough for everyones need , but not enough for everyone's greed ..