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UK: Dope Laws: Govt Told To Chill
Sky News
Sunday 17 Feb 2002 MPs are putting more pressure on the Government for an Amsterdam-style attitude to be taken on cannabis. Cannabis should be decriminalised on the streets of Britain, the Home Affairs select committee will recommend in a landmark report. It comes after a seven-month inquiry into Britain's drug laws, the Observer reports, to be published this spring. NHS treatment The investigation concludes that Ecstasy should be downgraded and prosecutions for possession of cannabis ended. It comes as cannabis treatments are to be prescribed on the NHS to multiple sclerosis sufferers in a radical step to be revealed on Monday. The Government will ask its medicines watchdog, the National Institute of Clinical Excellence, to issue guidelines for doctors on prescribing two cannabis derivatives. No high One is a capsule, the other a spray used under the tongue - made by drug companies which have isolated the active ingredients of marijuana. Neither results in a 'high, and patients will not be given the option of smoking street cannabis. Removing barriers But, the Home Office is watching the move with interest. "There is a general feeling that this would be part of the process of breaking down the barriers of resistance to the way cannabis is treated," said one Whitehall source. Downing Street, which has been adamant that there will be no decriminalisation of soft drugs, is expected to give a cautious welcome to the report but to oppose Ecstasy, a class A drug, being downgraded to Class B.
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