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Media news > Latest news > cannabis reclassification 14.01.06
Cannabis reclassification: experts say no to reversal of 2004 descision The Guardian newspaper reports today (cannabis law p.3 Jan 14 2006) that the Advisory Council on The Misuse of Drugs has recommended against a reversal of the 2004 descision to reclassify cannabis from class B to class C. As widely predicted and leaked to the media the ACMD have stood by there original recommendation, even after reviewing new evidence as directed by the Home Secretary in a letter, unusually made public, shortly before the 2005 general election. The ACMD report says "The [committee] considers that cannabis products should remain class C. At worst, the risk to an individual of developing a schizophreniform illness as a result of using cannabis is very small. The harmfulness of cannabis, to the individual, remains substantially less than the harmfulness caused by substances currently controlled under the act as class B." Guardian sources said that only 1 of the 36 committee members voted to shift cannabis back to class B. The Guardian also notes that resignations are being threatened by committee members if the Home Secretary ignores the advice and reclassifies regardless (which he is free to do as the committee's recommendations are not binding). The mental health charity Rethink has also been strongly advocating no change in the classification, but rather a concerted eductaion effort to inform young people of the potential risks of cannabis use.
Further information Transform's latest briefing on cannabis reclassification The Guardian articles can be read here and here
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