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Press Release: Warning: UK Government information on cannabis contains
Legalise Cannabis Alliance Sunday 01 Jul 2007 Warning: UK Government information on cannabis contains dangerous additives! No Embargo The UK Home Office has referred the most recent government information document on cannabis ("Cannabis explained" released on 25 May 2007) to the Department of health to be reviewed for factual errors (other discrepancies). Pending the outcome of the review, the distribution of the hard copy has been postponed. it has also remove from the FRANK Website. The LCA applaud the Frank Team for suspending distribution, and removing the offending document once they were made aware that some of the information was questionable. However, we are confused why no information for withdrawing this document from the public domain has been given on the Government Websites." Don Barnard of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance Said: ""The Media, Local Drug action Teams. charities, plus a whole army of others involved in "the war against some drugs" - including politicians, rely on FRANK as a reliable source of information are still disseminating some of erroneous, unsubstantiated and dubious information to teachers, parents and children. This is completely unacceptable for obvious reasons" Forward planning - I will be interested what the government has to say about this when 2007 Annual Review on FRANK'S effectiveness is publish on 16 July 2007. (Source http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2007-06-20a.142519.h&s=cannabis#g142519.r0 > Legalise Cannabis Alliance PO BOX 2883 STOKE ON TRENT S74 9EE http://www.lca-uk.org publicrelation@lca-uk.org 07984 255015 Editors notes: The LCA http://www.lca-uk.org is a UK-based organisation affiliated to the European Coalition For Just and Effective Drug Policies (ENCOD) http://www.encod.org. (ENCOD) is a Euro region-network of 140 NGO’s, individual experts and citizens And, the European section of an International Coalition, which consists of more than 200 NGOs from around the world involved in the drug control issue. ENCOD/International Coalition contact information: Joep Oomen Tel. + 32 (0)3 293 0886 Mob. + 32 (0)495 122644 E-mail: joep@encod.org The following taken from KFX Website is a good summary of the discussion to date. "Frankly Unacceptable" By Kevin Flemming Frank recently published their "Campaign Update" at the end of May 2007 with their 19-page "Cannabis Explained" document. And while we can generally expect publications from Frank to peddle the usual Government line when it comes to drugs and their related risks, this new Update is far worse. It has a number of ommissions and inaccuracies which suggest, at best, some sloppy editing/proof-reading and at worse a worrying lack of drugs awareness amongst those responsible for disseminating drugs information across the UK. From the first photograph on the top of page 3, the Update is a strange affair. This graphic shows a collection of waste, trimmed and browning cannabis leaves, looking quite autumnal but utterly unlike what anyone would use for intoxication. Another image on page 7 shows a collection of crack pipes, rather than cannabis equipment. But it is the "factual" content which is most alarming. The document makes a number of erroneous, unsubstantiated or dubious statements including: * that cannabis resin is made by scraping the dried leaves of cannabis plants * that smoking cannabis in joints is the least harmful way to use it * that use of cannabis damages the immune system * becoming horribly confused about defintions for herbal cannabis, skunk and sensimellia * relying on a set of unproven "strengths" of cannabis from a 2004 Healthwise document to "show" how strong different strains are * failing to mention contaminants in SoapBar and glass-contamination of herbal cannabis Following criticism of the document from KFx, the UKCIA and other commentators, the Home Office has written back to say that they are reviewing the content of the "Update." However, at the time of writing they haven't chosen to take it off the Home Office website which means that this inaccurate, dangerous and misleading piece of work is still being disseminated around the country. what KFx said to Frank about the document click http://www.ixion.demon.co.uk/Frank%20on%20cannabis.pdf Contact Kevin Flemming For government comment: Contact Home Office Press Department - 0207 5443111 Posted 01/07/07 # # #
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