Cannabis Campaigners' Guide News Database result:


After you have finished reading this article you can click here to go back.

UK: Easing of cannabis law 'may need a rethink'

Andrew Sparrow

The Telegraph

Thursday 10 Mar 2005

---
Jack Straw has hinted that the Government's decision to downgrade the
status of cannabis as an illegal drug may have been a mistake.

The Foreign Secretary said he recognised there were concerns about the
decision to recategorise it from a Class B drug to Class C.

"It was done for good reasons but we may need to rethink if we have to
review it in the light of experience," he said.

Mr Straw, who refused to downgrade cannabis when at the Home Office, was
speaking at a Labour "Big Conversation".

No 10 said Mr Straw was restating the Government's position that the drug
laws were kept under review.

But David Davis, the Tory home affairs spokesman, said: "It appears the
Government has seen the error of its ways. The downgrading of cannabis was
a dreadful decision which sends out mixed messages to children that it is
OK to take drugs."

 

 

 

After you have finished reading this article you can click here to go back. 




This page was created by the Cannabis Campaigners' Guide.

Feel free to link to this page!