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UK: Blunkett calls for 'adult' debate on cannabis
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Sunday 08 Jul 2001 Home Secretary David Blunkett has called for an "adult, intelligent debate" on whether the law on cannabis should be changed. He said that the question of legalising or decriminalising the drug should be considered in a calm and reasoned environment. Mr Blunkett stressed he would not be rushed into any decision. "There is room for an adult intelligent debate but it isn't: 'Are you for or against?' It's let's think, let's consider, let's not be pushed by articles in newspapers or hysteria," he told Sky News. "I am interested in the debate that is taking place because, I hope, I am an intelligent human being. "I have no intention of making a change in Government policy out of the blue and if I have anything further to say on the issue I will do so in a considered fashion in my own time." At the same time, however, he stressed that the Government had to send out a clear message that all drugs were harmful and should be avoided. "It doesn't matter whether one drug is less dangerous than another. The clear message that we have to send out to young people is that drugs are bad for you and you shouldn't take them," he said. "That applies obviously to Class A drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, but it is equally true of others. "Unless we put that message up front we will mislead our young people into believing that there is some easy way forward on the drugs issue. There isn't."
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