Category Archives: Cannabis reclassification

why must we always go backwards? instead of making progress with the cannabis issue - like getting closer and closer to legalization, no no let”s go back. [and who said the government didn"t have a reverse gear?]

that miserable charles clarke ( is it sth with Home Secrataries - they just don”t like anyone having any fun?perhaps sth in the job title - will have to look that one up..) wants to reclassify cannabis. why? well he says that reclassifying cannabis from Class B to C ( which happened about 2 years ago now) confused the public. Right sure. So let”s confuse everyone even more by re-re-classifying it yet again. ( re re wind..) [ isn"t he supposed to be so busy looking for terrorists and keeping dodgy foreigners out ( heh heh) to have no time to worry about who"s getting stoned or not?]

anyway i can”t see what the fuss is. all those poor policemen will have to spend all their time chasing people who”re lying around procrastinating and not bothering anyone. oh but we”ve heard about the argument how all these marijuana “users” will become “criminalized” ( ha its so funny that people should use that argument to keep it illegal. you”d think anyone rational would realize that if that”s what the main concern is - why then they ought to be jumping on the legalization bandwagon. tehse people can”t really be very clear about the concept/ relationship of “illegal” and “public” and “open” and “shady” and “black markets” can they.

Certainly more education should be encouraged: obviously you”d think you ought to have that anyway (about all substances anway doh- and not just some silly leaflet at university or sth) ..why we always have to go down the “let”s brush it under the carpet and try and criminalize the situation - that will work won”t it -” route i can”t think. What are we a world of ostriches?

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Dame Ruth Runciman, who chaired the Police Foundation report that first recommended the downgrading of cannabis, said “That there had been no significant increase in use of the drug since it was downgraded. She said the move had been sensible but had been very badly handled and created much public misunderstanding.

“To rereclassify is as ill-judged as it can be in my view,” she said on Jan 6th. “I think it will add greatly to the confusion. I think it is a very ill-judged thing to do and that it actually puts cannabis where it does not belong in the scale of relative harm.”

Milestones of Reclassification