Five years after lowering Cannabis to a class C drug, the Government has flip-flopped over another issue, decided it is more dangerous, and changed it back to a class B drug. This is a prime example of a pointless measure. I can only assume that it’s meant to be a vote-grabber, but I can’t imagine who really cares that much.
In the end, all this does is send a completely mixed message about Cannabis and other drugs. The plans are to deal with Cannabis differently to other B drugs, but yet it shares the classification. Also, we are meant to believe that it was okay to lower the classification 4 years ago, and yet the right thing to do now – after usage of the drug has dropped – is to tag it as being more dangerous than it was before.
The entire thing seems ill-concieved. I cannot imagine that it will make the slightest difference to anyone who smokes.
