dreamstothesky ([info]dreamstothesky) wrote,
@ 2008-05-08 16:34:00
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Cannabis reclassification
If you believe that the government should not interfere with what people do in the privacy of their own home while having minimal impact upon society

Or if you believe that the government should listen to its own health advisors instead of allowing the Prime Ministers personal crusades dictate policy.

Or if you believe that the 20% of the UK population who regularly use cannabis are not criminals and do not deserve upto 5 years in jail.

Or if you believe that police time has better uses than hunting down otherwise fully functional members of society

Or if you believe that prohibition is clearly (see America for an epic example - 1% of the population is currently in prison, about 1/3 of which are for cannabis posession or small time distribution) a useless way to alter people's behavior

Or if you believe creating a multi million pound black market run by thugs and criminals is the best answer to any of the (ill defined) problems associated with Cannabis

Or if you think
Go and put your name on this petition

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/steveb/

And if anyone knows of any stronger form of protest that is being organised by anyone more capable than me I would love to know.



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[info]half_of_monty
2008-05-08 04:26 pm UTC (link)
Trouble with this is that it's a bit late. I think the govt are going to change the law in the next few weeks, and the petition deadline's October. I don't have any constructive alternative suggestions, though.

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[info]dotwaffle
2008-05-08 10:33 pm UTC (link)
I think the biggest way to challenge this is the Radio 4 way - the Government went against it's own advisory panel's strongly worded advice, and pandered to the easy-vote.

If only Obama was a UK Politician. :(

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[info]neoanjou
2008-05-09 08:59 am UTC (link)
If only Obama was a UK Politician. :(

He's cave into popular pressure, no matter which side it came down upon?

Nah - seriously if you know of any comments Obama had made on drug policy I'd be interested to read them.

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[info]dotwaffle
2008-05-09 10:20 am UTC (link)
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2008/jan/31/barack_obama_comes_out_in_favor_

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