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Government Policy: The Hellawell Report
LCA LCA Manifesto
Sunday 13 Aug 2000 prepared by the anti-drugs co-ordinator Keith Hellawell, known as the 'Drugs Csar'. The paper was published in April 1998, with the title "Tackling Drugs for a Better Britain"; a title adapted presumably from the Labour Party election slogan "Build a Better Britain". Former chief constable Hellawell explains that this policy is a continuation of the previous (1995) White Paper entitled "Tackling Drugs Together", a document mostly concerned with reinforcing law enforcement policies against drug trafficking. Looked at in one way, the title emphasises that the community as a whole must tackle the drug problem collectively. Looked at in another way, the title would seem to imply that drugs problem should all be lumped together, and dealt with in a single fashion- as a criminal issue. Certainly, we find every possible justification, when we turn to the text itself, for interpreting the ambiguous title in the second of the two senses. There is no discussion in the report of the cannabis legalisation issue, just as there is no recognition that cannabis is a separate issue from opiates and should be treated as such. Indeed, cannabis could be used as a solution to the problem of opiate addiction. The expression "drug misuse" appears frequently in the Hellawell report. We do not accept that this expression has application to the use of cannabis by otherwise law-abiding adults. TAKEN FROM CANNABIS: LEGALISE AND UTILISE A MANIFESTO AND INFORMATION DOCUMENT ISBN 0-9535693-1-4 Produced and published by: The Legalise Cannabis Alliance Price £5.00 http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0953569314/webbooks05 BUY IT NOW Printed, published & promoted by the Legalise Cannabis Alliance, PO Box 2883, Stoke-on_Trent, ST4 9EE
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