Well, fuck me sideways. Look at the comments on the cannabis regrade story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... rtComments
Defying expert advice on a policy as important as this is a shameful, it's an absolute disgrace.
This has brought whole A B C classification system into disrepute, the only message this sends is that our drugs laws are a political toy and aren't based on evidence or any genuine concern for public health. That's the message, well done guys.
- David, Aberdeen, UK
Good point. Well made.
Reclassification will not in itself educate children on the use of cannabis. Young people will choose to take cannabis by choice, not because of the classification. The same way they choose to take other drugs. The law can change a thousand times but young people will still continue to use it. Just like young people use alcohol and tobacco. Too much time is spent on scoring political correctness. Get on the streets and understand why they want to take drugs in the first place. Then spend time and effort on why instead of changing politics.
- John Heeley, Manchester England
This is almost as bizarre as the new ban on violent porn. All it's going to do is result in further discrimination of otherwise innocent, well intentioned people. Bring on the Martin Luther King or Susan Anthony of the drug world, there is only so much discrimination innocent people will take.
If anything else, after all the years of debate the pro-drug community still is asking the same unanswered question and I don't think the government can or should be taken seriously until it is answered... "why is alcohol legal and cannabis illegal?" - it is such a major logical in congruency that the only conclusion one can draw from the consistent evasion of the question is that reason and logic have no place in the law... but that is what the law should be based on isn't it?
- Gary, Leicester, UK
Admittedly the headline is a Labour bash, apparently for changing their opinion to do what the Mail wanted in the first place, but the majority of comments so far are at least semi-rational.