Cannabis to be re-classified because of lost revenue
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The Association of Chief Police Officers are calling for cannabis to be reclassified from a class C to a class B drug. The Association of Chief Police Officers had supported the downgrading of the drug from class B to Class C three years ago. However Tim Hollis, the Chair of the ACPO drugs committee, said that they would now support a return to the previous position and would be giving evidence to that effect to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. A decision would then be taken probably next spring. Mr Hollis the Chief Constable of Humberside said there were concerns that the downgrading had sent out the wrong signals to young people. He also questioned why cannabis factories in rented houses had proliferated. He said organised crime viewed the UK as a potential place to produce cannabis. Police are stressing however that any reclassification would not necessarily change the way that they currently police possession of cannabis, although that may be reviewed in the light of any re-classification. The annual ACPO drugs conference in Cardiff is due to hear the latest evidence about links between mental illness and cannabis abuse.
~What a shame that the United Kingdom cannot cope with the irrefutable fact that Cannabis is not a dangerous drug, certainly not on the scale of Amphetamine. It is obvious that their reasons for re-classification are not because of its risks, but of a loss of profit! If Cannabis could be controlled by the government i.e by not being able to be home grown, and if it was more physically addictive like alcohol and cigarettes, then Cannabis would have been legalised in the 60's. All the police and politicians care about is that there is money to be made, and they're being left out.~
The Association of Chief Police Officers are calling for cannabis to be reclassified from a class C to a class B drug. The Association of Chief Police Officers had supported the downgrading of the drug from class B to Class C three years ago. However Tim Hollis, the Chair of the ACPO drugs committee, said that they would now support a return to the previous position and would be giving evidence to that effect to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. A decision would then be taken probably next spring. Mr Hollis the Chief Constable of Humberside said there were concerns that the downgrading had sent out the wrong signals to young people. He also questioned why cannabis factories in rented houses had proliferated. He said organised crime viewed the UK as a potential place to produce cannabis. Police are stressing however that any reclassification would not necessarily change the way that they currently police possession of cannabis, although that may be reviewed in the light of any re-classification. The annual ACPO drugs conference in Cardiff is due to hear the latest evidence about links between mental illness and cannabis abuse.
~What a shame that the United Kingdom cannot cope with the irrefutable fact that Cannabis is not a dangerous drug, certainly not on the scale of Amphetamine. It is obvious that their reasons for re-classification are not because of its risks, but of a loss of profit! If Cannabis could be controlled by the government i.e by not being able to be home grown, and if it was more physically addictive like alcohol and cigarettes, then Cannabis would have been legalised in the 60's. All the police and politicians care about is that there is money to be made, and they're being left out.~
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