Thread: Cannabis to be Reclassified Again

It seems like the busybodies in our legislature will be restricting freedoms even more rather than doing something important like sorting out our massive debt or cutting their own salaries.

I know the article is a day old, but I have been unable to read the papers for weeks because of exams (the last of which was today ). Nevertheless, I've not seen this posted anywhere else:

Cannabis goes back to Class B despite drug experts' verdict - Times Online

I love some of the comments, gives me a jolt of joy about the British public:

It won't be long before this incompetent bunch of headline chasing meddlers are gone for good - I also predict that Gordon Brown will be remembered as the single most useless, inefficient and blundering Prime Minister ever to take charge of this country.

What have we done to deserve this?

We adopted universal suffrage?

This is a step in the wrong direction. In itself I guess it will have minimal impact as the police will presumably ignore it. Have Brown/Smith forgotten that our prisons are already 99.9% full and they are having to let real criminals out early?

They've not forgotten everything, they want to bleed everyone in this nation dry so they can line their own pockets before the eventual collapse. More crimes equals more money. Ayn Rand was most certainly right on this point.

What a watse of time and money and so much for Gordon listening and learning!!! How can he expect people to believe anything he say's. I've always voted Labour but I won't do it again while he's pime minister.

Gordon Brown you are a LIAR

Liar is not a strong enough word.

A quote from Bastiat's 'The Law' describes my views perfectly on this situation: "The law is become every kind of avarice it was meant to check."

The problem is no one is fired up enough to do anything and unfortunately it is rather a niche hobby. It is one of those "They came for Jews but I didn't say anything because I'm not a Jew" situations.

The first example of Browns NuLab govt listening and learning -NOT

Brown, and indeed the whole of New Labour will be doing everything they can think of to make themselves popular with the electorate.

They know there are more votes to be won than lost by reclassifying cannabis, or at least they no doubt THINK that they do.

It is quite possible that their contempt for the electorate combined with their own arrogance in expecting the electorate to unthinkingly swing towards New Labour if a few bits of populist legislation is put up front, and a few bits of unpopular stuff is at least put in abeyance.

I do hope they are wrong and the electorate will in sufficient numbers see this as the cynical thing that I believe it actually is, and treat them with even more contempt because of it.

Should cannabis be reclassified? I think it should. Put into the same category as tobacco.

I wonder what Brown and his tank of thinkers will come up with next. Repealing the sex equality legislation? Re-criminalisation of male homosexuality? I wouldn’t put anything beyond this shower of shysters.

The thing I get really annoyed at is when the media blow an issue out of proportion in terms of significance. For example, the classification of cannabis from B to C is usually used to portray the PM as liberal, while a move from C to B is used to say they are tough on crime.

It is complete and utter ********. Downgrading a single drug does not make the PM a liberal and reversing it does not make him tough. Thatcher could just about be described as an economic liberal, and even then only just. A true liberal would take an axe to the whole of government and a miniscule action is by no means a determinant.

I know I am speaking to the converted, but I just needed to get it off my chest.