The foundations of the GLADDON drugs commission accepted after a decade or more of the UK static drug policies (Worried about grass: London must follow New York and to be careful with cannabis?, 31 May). While the report focuses on London, suggestions cover across the UK and beyond.
Cannabis recassified from class B to Class C in 2004, reducing sanctions owned, after home Scretary (David Blunkett) took the Advisory Council advisory of misuse of drugs. Unfortunately, the government asked the council to change the advice based on protests about cannabis risks. The Council, led by Sir Michael Rawmins, confirms its advice that medicine should remain in class C. Government disagrees today and returns it to class B.
police Pirbitland A few years later announced that it would concentrate on worse issues and reduces attention to simple offender sins. The return of medicine in a class with a lower sentence Tariff clearly understands.
Requirements for a moving educational service and health about drug use and addiction clearly to the next target and now it is difficult to know anything but insufficient provision of Primary or Specialist Services.
Scotland nurtures the construction of a secure content of the hero and a program that is helped by the hero permitted to treat Glasgow, but the development of the plain is slow.
The Commission does not recommend the legislation but without a national development of the country’s upcoming policy.
Roy Robertson
Professor of addiction addiction, University of Edinburgh
Your article is about deciding the cannabis in London doesn’t think about the impact of people who don’t like the smell of grass around them. I recently destroyed a short rest of New Yorkmarked by the bad odor of the grass everywhere. On the streets, the storeway shop and even shops and restaurants while people smoke their joints out.
It’s too bad we need to breathe the sick smell of streets on the streets without suffering the poisonous smell of pot anywhere. This is more than an issue about non-prosecuting people for drug use, it is a quality-of-life issue for everyone. If it is decriminalized with LondonThe rest of the country is sure to follow the suit.
Carole Law Mooney
Bacup, Lancashire
