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UK: ACMD 'Cannabis Council' Chairman Resigns

CannaZine

Tuesday 20 May 2008

During the run up to the cannabis reclassification announcement there were rumours of resignations amongst the governments own advisory council on drugs if, as has proven to be the case, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith arrogantly ignored the advice given by the council, and decided to reclassify cannabis anyway.

But with time, those announcements have faded into "yesterdays news".

But yesterday the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs convened a second "public" meeting in central London, although we use the term public loosely, as try as we may, we were unable to publicise this meeting.

The government and its "Cleanfeed" initiative, (a program of Internet censorship devised by Drugs Minister, and Jacqui Smith's cannabis classification accomplice Vernon Coaker), which essentially bans an organisation such as the Canna Zine, broadcasting information which could embarrass government, was called into action.
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As a result of Cleanfeed, every single press release we attempted to publish over the last 7 days, which included information regarding the ACMD, was censored, and we were banned from releasing it.

We had no word about this. The information just never appeared in the public domain after we had published it in good faith.

In the news today, is an announcement which tells of a leadership change in the ACMD, which would go some way to explaining this censorship and the irony of the governments ability to successfully embargo this information, but not the reclassification which Jacqui Smith so skillfully leaked to the press, is not lost on us.

Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, a man who loudly protested to the governments intentions to reclassify cannabis AGAINST the ACMD's advice, has quietly stepped down as leader of the Advisory Council, to be replaced by Professor David Nutt, and one of the first things Professor Nutt has asked for is for the classification of ecstasy to be looked at with a view to reclassifying it a class B drug, as opposed to where it stands today, up there with heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine as a class A substance.

So here we go again.

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