News (Media Awareness Project) - UK: PUB LTE: It May Be Too Late to Reclassify Cannabis |
| Title: | UK: PUB LTE: It May Be Too Late to Reclassify Cannabis |
| Published On: | 2008-01-11 |
| Source: | Times, The (UK) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-13 23:47:11 |
IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO RECLASSIFY CANNABIS
Sir, According to your figures, about 8.25 per cent of the country's
37 million 16-59 year-olds use cannabis. This is more than three
million people. If cannabis were reclassified as a class B drug and
these people were all imprisoned for up to five years for possession --
as the law would require -- the Home Office would have to build more
than 700 maximum size prisons to accommodate them.
It is hardly joined-up thinking to criminalise such a large proportion
of the population. Cannabis use clearly has some risks but prohibition
has never worked.
Andrew Holt
London N10
Sir, According to your figures, about 8.25 per cent of the country's
37 million 16-59 year-olds use cannabis. This is more than three
million people. If cannabis were reclassified as a class B drug and
these people were all imprisoned for up to five years for possession --
as the law would require -- the Home Office would have to build more
than 700 maximum size prisons to accommodate them.
It is hardly joined-up thinking to criminalise such a large proportion
of the population. Cannabis use clearly has some risks but prohibition
has never worked.
Andrew Holt
London N10
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