IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO RECLASSIFY CANNABIS

Sir, Gordon Brown is not known for his recklessness, but his reported
views on cannabis fly in the face of all the mental health evidence.
Why reclassify cannabis when use is going down among the groups most
at risk from it? Mr Brown should be conserving scarce government
resources for the one thing that would make a difference to use:
health education. Next month we will release research findings which
show that only 3 per cent of users quit for legal reasons. Does he
really think that average users are going to change their habits
because of a change of classification?

Paul Jenkins

Chief Executive, Rethink