Pubdate: Wed, 24 Oct 2001
Source: Mirror, The (UK)
Copyright: 2001 The Mirror
Contact:  http://www.mirror.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1161
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POT ON, DAVID

No drugs are good for you, but some are an awful lot worse than others.

Cannabis is at the lowest end of the scale, arguably less harmful than 
alcohol or tobacco.

Yet the police have been wasting far too much time prosecuting people for 
smoking dope.

In 1999, 68 per cent of the yearly total of 120,000 drugs offences were 
cannabis related, each taking officers up to three hours to process.

This is clearly a ludicrous situation and Home Secretary David Blunkett is 
right to propose reclassifying cannabis.
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MAP posted-by: Beth