Jacqui Smith - Cannabis Dope
Gordon Brown planning clampdown on cannabis over health concerns - Times Online
Cannabis is to be reclassified as a Class B drug after an official review this spring, The Times has learnt.
Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith are determined to reverse the decision to downgrade the drug when the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs completes its report in the next few months.
While its recommendations are not yet known, ministers are already making plain that the Home Secretary is prepared to overrule the expert body if necessary...
The council has recently been highly critical of parts of the Government’s consultation paper on the future of its drug strategy. “It is disappointing that the paper makes no mention of needing to improve the evidence base of drug misuse and treatments nor makes use of international evidence, for informing and guiding policy,” the council said.
I think that is what is called an academic bitchslap.
What is the point of employing experts to collate the evidence if you are just going to implement your own ignorant ideas anyway whatever the science says? But then what is the fucking point of Jacqui Smith anyway?
