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Cannabis back to Class B?
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So it's over a year since cannabis was downgraded to a Class C drug, but with the election over and Labour once again in power, they have said they will review it's current status. Alot has been said about Cannabis and mental health and i'm sure they will push this further to bring the drug back up to Class B.
Also due to the fact Blair has fallen out of favour with the public, I have a feeling he feels as though this is his last chance, and is going to do everything in his power to try and win over the general public once more. And this includes moving Cannabis back up to a Class B drug...
I just have this gut feeling that it's inevitable. It seems as though the governments war on drugs is 90% a war on Cannabis. Around my area the police really like cracking down on it, really doesn't seem like they are focusing on hard drugs at all. I've witnessed an Officer using tweazers to pick bits on 'green' out of a friends tin, must have been 20p's worth seriously, and proceeded to give him a warning, one more and he's down the station for fingerprints etc.... the situations involving people being arressted for possession of cannabis can only get worse, which they will if it goes back to a class B.
Any views and thoughts on this topic?
Also due to the fact Blair has fallen out of favour with the public, I have a feeling he feels as though this is his last chance, and is going to do everything in his power to try and win over the general public once more. And this includes moving Cannabis back up to a Class B drug...
I just have this gut feeling that it's inevitable. It seems as though the governments war on drugs is 90% a war on Cannabis. Around my area the police really like cracking down on it, really doesn't seem like they are focusing on hard drugs at all. I've witnessed an Officer using tweazers to pick bits on 'green' out of a friends tin, must have been 20p's worth seriously, and proceeded to give him a warning, one more and he's down the station for fingerprints etc.... the situations involving people being arressted for possession of cannabis can only get worse, which they will if it goes back to a class B.
Any views and thoughts on this topic?
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they may well bring civil unrest upon themselves. seriously ...you'd be surprised how much anger these statements have stirred and in how many people from many backgrounds.
They will have to fight with ACPO about it if they do, and the Advisory Council on Drugs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4528537.stm
And this talk of 'skunk' pisses me off, yes it may well be stronger, but do you smoke the same amount? No.
And of course it used to be we would get strong hash which would piss on the THC content of even the strongest 'skunk' did we hear an outcry about that? No.
Cannabis can be dangerous, especially to some people but that is an educational problem which will NOT be solved by the law being tougher.
And of course no matter how dangerous cannabis is now supposed to be is anyone going to tell me skunk is as dangerous as methamphetamine?!
the vast majority of people though do recover from all manner of illegals.
look at the heroin epidemic of the early eighties ...
most of the people in this country were only aware cos of a crime increase and even then ...it was nothing like the press like to portray.
if it happens ...most of you won't notice.
I agree whole-heartedly with MoonGoddess.
It is really hard for people without a lot of money to get a place at a rehab centre, and then to get the sufficient after-care that they need. Government funding aimed in that direction would be far, far more valuable than all this wasting time with White Papers, Green Papers, Rizzla Papers!! And for what? To make more young people 'criminals.'
I had a wealthy friend who needed to get off coke, and he went away to a private place for six months, then to a half-way house for two months, and then a mentor came and moved into his house with him for about six or eight weeks and didn't let him out of his sight. I dread to think how much all that cost him.
Where as my brother, who has been killing himself with heroin abuse for years and years, and who's body is graually shutting down, has found it almost impossible to get a place in a detox centre. And even when he finally did, it is only for a few weeks, and then he's out, on his own, jobless, homeless, and stark sober. God only knows how long he'll last.
It's really bad.
Maybe we should get a petition satrted and send it to 'hip, Oasis-loving' Mr Blair!
:yeees:
No, but the diet and lifestyle which is forced upon the street addict wont do them any good.
I like to add a little creative flair to my writing, MC. It's not all facts, figures and statistics on this site I hope.
Anyway - to clarify... his body is 'shutting down' because his blood flow is so pathetic that he has got gangrene in his feet, his liver is infected and f***ed, he is in pain constantly, and now he has MRSA on the open sores.
He's not exactly jumping for joy, yeah?!!
Does that explain 'shutting down,' or do I still need correcting?
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poor guy ...he sounds done for.