Cannabis used as Police whipping boy in lost fight against heroin
Ever since the debate on the reclassification of cannabis kicked off almost a year ago to the day, the Canna Zine has made it clear why, in our opinion, the Police were so keen to see the government back-track on what has been one of their most successful policy changes in recent times.
That is, the reclassification of cannabis from a class B to the lesser charge of class C.
User figures are showing a downward trend, around 80,000 people per year are not struggling with a police criminal record for a simple possession charge, and everything looked rosy in the garden.
Then, along comes Gordon Brown and his cronies, including Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, and drugs minister Vernon Coaker, with a big box of flies to drop in the ointment
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They announced they were going against the advice of their experts, and were set to reclassify cannabis BACK to a class B drug.
ACPO, the Association of Chief Police Officers soon came out in support of the new policy, (as they did when David Blunkett initially reclassified cannabis back in 2004), and Simon Byrne, the ACPO lead on cannabis policing quickly filled up Daily Mail column inch's with their NEW reasons why they support the the NEW policy changes, (get off the fence ACPO).
Since that time the Canna Zine has pulled no punches in telling why we thought ACPO had back-tracked. In short, if they have no cannabis bust stories to report, they have little in the way of drug war success to tell of, because their fight against class A drugs, the very reason David Blunkett wanted to remove cannabis from the drug theatre of war in the first place, is a lost cause.
A dismal and abject failure at a cost of over £400 million to the UK tax-payer every single year.
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