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Issue 6 - 2012
Jacqui Smith returns to UK politics and admits ‘I got it wrong on cannabis reclassification.’
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What happened to the Weedpass? ›› 16 AUTOFLOWERING CANNA BIS: HOW IT ALL HAPPENED Just a few years ago Autoflowering cannabis was the new kid on the block. However, most people, including some seedbanks, had serious reservations. Would yield and potency ever amount to anything? Or was it one of those silly lost causes that history would look back and laugh at. ››
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The former Home Secretary then goes on to repeat her hard-line ‘no cannabis legislation’ stance to appease all the other politicians who will doubtless accuse her of being soft on drugs. So although everything has changed, nothing actually, is different. When she was Gordon Brown’s home secretary Jacqui Smith decided it was time to revisit the cannabis issue with a view to reclassifying cannabis to a more serious B class, from a less serious C class. Famously the governments own drugs advisors (the ACMD), then chaired by Pharmacologist Professor David Nutt, were canvassed for their learned opinions. There then followed over 12 months of drug debate carried out mainly on the front pages of the tabloids, and funded by an alcohol industry which was as always, keen to see cannabis firmly outlawed. The ACMD then came back with their findings. They were, that cannabis has
NOT become 50 times stronger. The suggestion that cannabis will actually make you mad was tenuous at best, and their primary recommendation? That the use of legal sanctions is not likely to stop people trying cannabis, a substance which is statistically far
safer than either tobacco or alcohol. Making cannabis prohibition an expensive waste of resources. So everyone knows this even though they never actually said it. Even the Continues on page 3