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 Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:25 pm Post subject: Yesterday and Today in the UK |
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Remember those days? Autumn 2001
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| Home Secretary David Blunkett has announced he wants the UK's laws covering cannabis to be eased so possession will no longer be an arrestable offence |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1615840.stm
Then Mr. Blunkett was put out of play because he had an illegitimate child.
Then the UN had their say against our softening up...
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Koli Kouame, secretary of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the UN agency dedicated to monitoring legal regimes of member states, said the downgrading of cannabis from Class B to C could send the wrong signal and damage the global fight against drug abuse.
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http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20353.shtml
Tony Blair had his say too, prior the elections that he won...
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Tony Blair admitted that his Government could have been wrong to downgrade the seriousness of cannabis.
He told worried parents during an election event in Lancashire that there was increasing medical evidence that cannabis was "not quite as harmless as people make out".
Tony Blair appeals to voters at an election event in Huddersfield
Mr Blair's comments were the most striking acknowledgement yet that ministers now fear that the controversial policy was a mistake. |
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtmlxml=/news/2005/05/04/nelec04.xml
What about now?
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A few years ago it seemed we were close to legalization.
then bush......
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