i advise that next time dont do the demo so early in the morning , students are in college , people are working etc etc etc ......im sure that many people ud like to go but the time is bad ...anyway hope you guys have fun and send the message out ......UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL @

Rt Hon Jacqui Smith MP
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London SW1 4DF
Dear Home Secretary
In July 2007 you asked the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs to review the classification of cannabis in the light of real public concern about the potential mental health effects of cannabis use and, in particular, the use of stronger strains of the drug. I have pleasure in enclosing the Council’s report. You will note that, after a most careful scrutiny of the totality of the available
evidence, the majority of the Council’s members consider – based on its harmfulness to individuals and society – that cannabis should remain a Class C substance. It is judged that the harmfulness of cannabis more closely equates with other Class C substances than with those currently classified as Class B.
In providing this advice, however, the Council wishes to emphasise that the use of cannabis is a significant public health issue. Cannabis can unquestionably cause harm to individuals and society. The Council therefore advises that strategies designed to minimise its use and adverse effects must be predominantly public health ones. Criminal justice measures – irrespective
of classification – will have only a limited effect on usage. We therefore urge you to invite the UK’s Chief Medical Officers to develop, on behalf of the government, a public health strategy that will meet our shared goals. Anything less will prejudice the health of future generations.
The report also includes various research recommendations which we believe to be important to commission. We are confident that the government, with the Research Councils and the National Institute for Health Research, will wish to consider these very carefully.
In producing this report, the Council has had an extraordinary amount of valued help from various organisations as well as from members of the public. The Council is also very grateful to the clinicians and scientists who gave written and oral evidence. Some of them travelled a long way to do so.
Yours sincerely
Professor Sir Michael Rawlins FMedSci
Chairman

This is from the home office website. I thought the ACMD supported legalisation?

> i advise that next time dont do the demo so early in the morning

Yeah, I'll be far too stoned to get up at that time :)

this poster looks like a commercial advertisement

If you are going to Parliament, look at the fight against the SOCPA exclusion and what it has achieved.


The use of cannabis should be depenalised, not just kept 'class C' or allowed for medical use.

The use of all drugs should be depenalised, as it is a matter if personal choices, right or wrong, and nobody has any business to interfere; instead, people should be given correct and realistic information so they would know what they are doing.

People die more often from the black market, i.e. because the drugs are cut with all sorts of poison, rather than they die from the drugs themselves.

If the use of drugs was depenalised, all the criminals who make huge profits out of them would run out of business.

The drug that causes more deaths than any other is a legal drug called alchool, but also nicotine and aspirine cause many more deaths than heroin for instance (and I may state again that people die of heroin because of the black market, they overdose because they do not know what they are taking). With that I oppose firmly the idea that alchool should be made illegal, it was tried in America during the prohibitionism years and resulted in the sale of alchool to go underground and in the hands of gangsters, who fluorished thanks to that...exaclty like with other drugs now!

So as a way of conclusion: the proibitionism of drugs is a bad idea altogether and has no other funciton than control the people and maximize the profits.

Part of the problem is that various UN treaties make the outright legalisation of cannabis or other prohibited drugs virtually impossible: about the closest you can get is the style of "formal toleration" practised in the Netherlands.

I suspect that if full legalisation was allowed, we would see a dramatic change of face from our cowardly politicians - there is a multibillion pound industry out there that is going completely untaxed, and wouldn't they like a share of it!

Re: the start time. It's not just a matter of being too idle or stoned to get out of bed. Remember that those of us who use the train have to pay a lot more to travel before 0930 on a weekday :0(