The only reason they are reclassifying from B to C (not decriminalising) is to save the workload for the filth.
Blunkett hasn't outlined anything really other than possession will no longer be an arrest able offence.
However if like me you already have a caution for cultivation and get stopped for possession in the street, once your name gets run though the PNC database and they see cultivation against you too do you honestly think they're not going to come knocking at your home???
We will never be in a decriminalised or medical cannabis country.
There are too many pussy politicians who won't stand up for the green life regardless of whether it would encourage a better economy from sales and taxes etc.
You only have to look how cannabis smokers are portrayed in the press too to see how its always going to be.
I've got money set aside to setup a shop should we ever get to the MMJ policy etc but to be honest its probably just going to be my retirement nest egg.
J
About 12 years ago Cannabis was downgraded from a B to a C
but there was a bit of an outcry....they couldn't put it back to a B (that would be u-turning and make the government look weak and indecisive)
So they increased the penalties for C drugs to the same has it had been for B drugs.
(Everything remained the same except the name of the categorisation)
So utterly pointless!
Then, a few years later. cannabis was returned to a Class B status drug.
And, now, they're talking about making it a C status, again.
This isn't u-turning, it's worse
It's merry-go-rounding !
Drug legislation is one of those political 'hot potato's' that politicians try to avoid,
That's why they pay millions for experts to run enquiries - then completely ignore the inquiries findings and recommendations.
Before entering the unholy alliance with the Tories (anything for some real powers!) the Lib Dems advocated the de-politicizing of the drugs legislation issue, by means of a Royal Inquiry and a pre-inquiry agreement to follow it's recommendations (similar to how the government gave the Bank of England the right - and responsibility) to set the interest rates).
As soon as they achieved power the Lib Dems stopped talking about it.
But David Cameron has repeatedly stated that his government are winning the drugs war and there will be no surrender or retreat.
(He uses the data that shows drug use has stopped increasing to demonstrate 'winning the drugs war' but every expert in the fields of substance misuse and policing state that drug use has stopped increasing because we have reached saturation point. Usage has reached a plateau due to constant and consistent supply).
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BLUNKETT HASN'T OUTLINED ANYTHING.....
Blunkett?
Blind David Blunkett?
He hasn't been Home Secretary for a decade.
He was sacked by Blair for sleeping with a married American woman.
The one we have now is Theresa May.
A right wing, 'back to basics' family values fucking hypocrite.
