MPs vote to downgrade cannabis - Democratic Underground

Judi Lynn

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Wed Oct-29-03 02:35 PM
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MPs vote to downgrade cannabis

4.30pm update

MPs vote to downgrade cannabis

Matthew Tempest and agencies
Wednesday October 29, 2003

MPs today backed the downgrading of cannabis as ministers denied the move amounted to legalisation of the drug.

The reclassification of cannabis from class B to class C was backed by 316 votes to 160, a majority of 156, despite Conservative warnings that it would lead more young people into hard drugs.

The downgrading of cannabis is now scheduled to go ahead on January 29.

Junior home office minister Caroline Flint said the change was part of an "honest and credible" strategy to tackle the scourge of drugs, denying it was tantamount to legalising the drug or would increase cannabis use. (snip/...)

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,1073322,00.html

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dbt

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Wed Oct-29-03 02:37 PM
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1. The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall!

Oh, to be back in Cornwall next year...

:smoke:
dbt

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el_gato

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Wed Oct-29-03 02:42 PM
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2. SWEET

leaf

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snooper2

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Wed Oct-29-03 02:43 PM
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3. :)

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thebigidea

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Wed Oct-29-03 02:44 PM
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4. somewhere, Ashcroft is crying, screaming, pleading with an imaginary god

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Liberal Veteran

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Wed Oct-29-03 03:03 PM
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8. Baby Jesus is weeping in heaven!

Woe! Oh, Woe!

This is terrible!

It's the end of the world as we know it!!!!

Repubs are so funny!

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R Hickey

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Wed Oct-29-03 02:51 PM
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5. I hate them for their freedoms.

Sure wish america was a free country too.

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Flubadubya

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Wed Oct-29-03 02:55 PM
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6. Oh, I feel your pain...

Sure wish we had access to such pain relief.

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VolcanoJen

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Wed Oct-29-03 03:01 PM
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7. Oh hell yeh! When with this happen, nationwide, in the US?

Many states (Ohio being one) have decriminalized cannabis. When will this become national policy?

The 12th of Never, I imagine...

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