THE ADVISORY COUNCIL ON THE MISUSE OF DRUGS - OPEN MEETING 19TH May 2008 10.30am – 12:40pm London
ACMD OPEN MEETING
The Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) invites members of the public to its second open meeting on 19th May 2008 to observe how their work is conducted.
There will be an opportunity for attendees to provide feedback to the ACMD and participate in a question and answer session.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is a statutory and non-executive non-departmental public body, established by the Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA) 1971.
The ACMD has a statutory duty to keep under review the situation in the United Kingdom with respect to the misuse of drugs and to advise Ministers of the measures which they consider should to be taken to deal with social problems which arise from drug misuse.
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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