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Cannabis to be re-upgraded to a class B drug - snopes.com
Http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7386889.stm
Quote: : Cannabis is to be reclassified as a class B drug, Jacqui Smith has said.
The home secretary said that because of the "increased strength" of some types, she wanted to reverse Tony Blair's 2004 downgrading of the drug to class C.
She highlighted "uncertainty at the least" on the future impact on young people's mental health from cannabis.
Her statement to MPs came despite the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs' review - commissioned by Gordon Brown - saying it should stay class C
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Trouble is, they've shut the barn door after the horse has nicked off.
The downgraded status meant importing technologies that grow strong weed - hydroponics and the attendant equipment and skills.
Upgrading the status will not remove these factors and strong weed will still be readily available.
Maybe if the upgrade results in a Polis 'crackdown' then imports of hash will resume.
I've missed hash
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Ah the labour government rejecting the opinions of experts again.
All's well with the world.
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Does it make any difference day to day what the classification is?
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Quote: : Farquart Does it make any difference day to day what the classification is?
Specifically it will affect Policing the drug and Sentencing.
More resources are spent chasing down dealers of class Bs than Cs, likewise tougher sentences are handed down for being busted growing/possessing a kilo of B than C.
The Police will, overnight, be instructed to follow procedure for a class B when searching a suspect or whatever, and magistrates will from the applicable date have to re-establish weight of sentence for the new class as well.
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Quote: : From the OP: "probable, but weak, causal link between psychotic illness, including schizophrenia, and cannabis use".
I could make a connection between psychotic illness and TV watching too, I suppose.
Seriously, from what I know about habitual use of GHB and the difficulty of withdrawal from it--for GHB, medically supervised withdrawal is a requirement, skunk weed is not even close to the same category.
It is the pendulum swinging from tolerance to back to punishment.
Take a tip from us, unless you want prisons filled with recreational users, don't do it.
Ali "turn back, it's a trap" Infree
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Will there be an increase in cannabis trips to The Netherlands?
Even there they are growing less tolerant of it.
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What's the name of the logical fallacy that states that because cannabis MAY cause mental illness in SOME people (although that link has never been proven) it should be banned in case the people who become mentally ill as a possible result of maybe smoking cannabis go on to murder somebody, which not everyone with a mental illness does.
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Facepalm.jpg
I'd really like to know just what benefit they see coming from this.
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Quote: : Will there be an increase in cannabis trips to The Netherlands?
Even there they are growing less tolerant of it.
But we are growing more tolerant of it as time goes on.
While the Harper government scrapped plans to decriminalize it, it's only a matter of time.
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Quote: : But we are growing more tolerant of it as time goes on.
While the Harper government scrapped plans to decriminalize it, it's only a matter of time.
At that rate it will become compulsory there and you'll be sprinkling it on your breakfast!
Which is one way to keep the population docile
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Quote: : But we are growing more tolerant of it as time goes on.
While the Harper government scrapped plans to decriminalize it, it's only a matter of time.
...brb, canada.
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For some anyway...others...well, lets just say that there will be big uprisings in the sale of tinfoil...
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But hasn't canabis use fallen since the drug was re-classified?
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Quote: : G But hasn't canabis use fallen since the drug was re-classified?
I thought that. Maybe it'll go back up now...
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Since the jan 2006 re-classification there was an 11% drop in use in 11-15 year olds.
Nothing else bucked the trends of (slow) rising use.
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