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UK: Joint committee
The Sunday Telegraph
Sunday 20 Mar 2005 It has just emerged that Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, is to order a review of the Government's decision - passed just 15 months ago - to downgrade cannabis from a Class B to a Class C drug. The reason he cites is the emergence of scientific evidence of a link between smoking cannabis and the risk of psychosis. Yet there was already substantial evidence of this link before the reclassification, as many critics pointed out at the time. The Government is like one of those dreadfully confused parents who is slack one day and officious the next. On the one hand, it yearns to show that it is fashionably relaxed about people who enjoy the occasional joint: on the other, it worries that they will puff themselves into a psychiatric ward. Similarly, the very Government that now laments the health costs of teenage binge-drinking sent a text message to young voters at the last election which read: "C'dn't give a XXXX 4 lst ordrs? Vote Labour on thrsday 4 xtra time." Labour appears to believe it can be libertarian and authoritarian at the same time. We can only advise the Government, therefore, to stay well away from cannabis: it's got enough identity problems already.
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