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Letter: How to make a hash of drug policy

Pinky Starr

Dorset Echo

Monday 19 Jan 2009

As a supporter of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance, I feel that we should warn the many thousands of cannabis users in Dorset that our Government has defied its own experts and will be raising cannabis from class C to class B this week.

The government-appointed committee the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has for the third time stated that in their expert opinion cannabis should not be put into class B under the Misuse of Drugs Act.

However, Gordon Brown, who has mistakenly referred to some of the stronger versions of cannabis as “lethal”, Jacqui Smith et al, have decided to ignore that advice and go with the scare-mongers in order to try to win more votes.

The recent reduction in the number of cannabis users that followed downgrading to class C has also been ignored. Maybe the government want to see an increase.

The real effect of this will be an increase in maximum sentence for possession to five years in prison – the maximum sentence for cultivation, production or supply will remain at 14 years.

Pinky Starr, founder of protestlondon.co.uk

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk

 

 

 

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