Cannabis will be upgraded from a Class C to a Class B drug, in a shock reversal of Tony Blair’s reclassification just four years ago.
The move comes shortly after a concerted campaign by the Government’s drugs advisory board, Associated Newspapers, to upgrade the substance. The board were concerned about the mental health of its readers, who have been given a constant dose of scare stories and inaccurate "facts".
Ministers denied they should have relied on the opinion of "experts" such as the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs: "The Daily Mail has over 100 years experience of fear-mongering and peddling unsubstantiated facts, we are wise to follow their sage counsel… Especially if we want to keep our jobs."
Source: Rooters
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1 amphibious // May 8, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Apart from their being meretricious mediocrities and pusillanimous poltroons, what could be the real reason for this retrograde idiocy? If Brown & Co continue to trim their sails to the Mail’s wind, as Blair seemed happy to do, then it may result in the Tories becoming the party of individual freedom and responsibility.
Then the LibDems may become at least an Opposition, Labour having disappeared up it collective fundemental fallacy.
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