Plea To Repeal Cannabis Laws
Source: Essex Gazette
Date: March 27 2007
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A campaigner for the legalisation of cannabis has called for the drug to be
regulated rather than being kept illegal.
Don Barnard, press
office for the Legalise Cannabis Alliance,
was reacting to a new report published in medical journal the Lancet which
calls for the current ABC system of ranking drugs to be scraped.
The report, by Colin Blakemore, chief executive of the Medical Research Council
says that legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco are actually more dangerous than
cannabis and drugs like ecstasy.
Mr Barnard, of Witham, said the report shows that cannabis should be regulated
in a similar way to alcohol and tobacco so that children will be protected from
it and to avoid dealers mixing the drug with other substances and increasing
the risk to users.
Mr Barnard said: "At present it is difficult for people under the age of
18 to get access to alcohol and tobacco, but anyone can get hold of cannabis
and other illegal drugs. If it was regulated we could stop young people getting
hold of the drugs and ensure the drugs in circulation are not cut with
dangerous things like glass, which has happened in the past."
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Cited: Don Barnard, Legalise Cannabis Alliance http://www.lca-uk.org/