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UK: Cannabis declassification still on track

ePolitix

Thursday 20 Jun 2002

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Cannabis is to be declassified, despite criticism from a US official.

Visiting the UK this week, the director of the Drug Enforcement
Administration in the US, Asa Hutchinson, criticised the government's
"softly, softly" approach to drugs, including a pilot scheme in Lambeth
where police have focused less on cannabis use.

There was speculation that home secretary, David Blunkett, was about to
back away from the move after the government released a response to the
home affairs select committee report on drugs to a number of ministers.

While the document supported some recommendations and rejected others,
including radical suggestions for a "shooting gallery" for addicts, it only
said that a further text would be supplied on the issue of cannabis.

The Home Office denied that it was set to reconsider its policy on cannabis.

 

 

 

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