Re: Drugs: Our Community, Your Say

"Dr John Watson" <drjohn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> [From DailyDose: http://www.dailydose.net/index.htm]
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> A re****t on the 2008 Drug Strategy Consultation and Views on
Reclassifying
> Cannabis to a Class B drug. 56-page PDF [Home Office, UK].
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http://drugs.homeoffice.gov.uk/publication-search/cannabis/cannabis-response?view=Binary
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> So much for the press re****ts that the majority of respondents to this
> survey wanted reclassification to class B. The figures are:
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> Reclassify B: 121/639 19%
> Leave C: 278/639 44%
> Legalise: 124/639 19%
> Undecided: 116/639 18%
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> Only 19% wanted reclassification. A listening Government, my arse!

The Labour government has always made it perfectly clear that it isn't 
interested in the views of the chattering cl*****.  It listens to the
Daily 
Mail and to Rupert Murdoch, and maybe to its "focus groups" of carefully 
selected average people.

I don't suppose the Home Secretary, who used cannabis at university but 
didn't really enjoy it all that much, even values her own opinion. When
will 
we ever hear a politician say that he/she has used cannabis occasionally 
even within the last five years, and finds it enjoyable?  It should be the

ultimate test of honesty.  David Cameron, this could be your finest hour.
At 
times, Cameron has given in to the temptation to be honest. He isn't the 
stuck-up hypocritical Old Etonian that the Left make him out to be. 
Unless 
of course the Tories have given him a Stepford Wives-style brain
transplant 
since those heady days when he wrote for the Guardian in his lively and 
intelligent columns:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2002/may/17/davidcameron.politicalcolumnists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2002/may/20/immigrationpolicy.thinktanks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/nov/17/davidcameron.politicalcolumnists