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UK: Comment: The right move on cannabis

News & Star, Cumbria

Tuesday 23 Oct 2001

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WITH the radical shake-up of the law involving cannabis use announced by
the Home Secretary, we hope there is no let-up in the drive by police to
use all resources available to outlaw Class A drugs like heroin and
cocaine.

Cannabis users will no longer be arrested and will not be prosecuted if
caught with a small amount of the drug - although it will remain an
illegal substance under the planned overhaul of the law.

This was exactly how Cumbria's former Chief Constable Colin Phillips saw
the changes coming about when he told the News & Star he would turn a
blind eye to cannabis use.

It is a sign of changing times and the public's perception of the drug.

And it is a welcome breakthrough that the Home Office has ordered
clinical trials which, if successful, will allow doctors to prescribe
cannabis for multiple sclerosis and arthritis.

There will be the radical view that society is growing up.

But the war on hard drug use and supply must still be relentless.

 

 

 

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