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UK: Essex: Plea to repeal cannabis laws

Essex Gazette

Tuesday 27 Mar 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.
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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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