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Letter: Cannabis Mistake June Kidd Western Mail Thursday 22 Jan 2009 SIR – As a supporter of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance, I feel that we should warn the many thousands of cannabis users in Wales that our Government has defied its own efforts and will be raising cannabis from Class C to Class B next week. The Government-appointed body/committee, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has for the third time stated that in its expert opinion cannabis should not be put into Class B of the Misuse of Drugs Act. However, Gordon Brown, who has mistakenly referred to some of the stronger types of cannabis as “lethal”, Jacqui Smith et al, have decided to ignore that advice and go with the scaremongers in order to try to win more votes. The recent fall in the number of cannabis users that followed downgrading to Class C has also been ignored. Maybe the Government wants to see an increase! The real effect of this will be an increase in maximum sentence for possession to five years in prison. The maximum sentence for cultivation, production or supply will remain at 14 years. In other words, the only difference will be to cannabis users and we are talking about people who have done no harm and posed no threat to anyone. Obviously, people who harm others are punishable under other laws. The police who originally wanted downgrading to enable them to focus more on Class A and B drugs will now find themselves once again arresting cannabis-users. Once again the courts will be filled up with people charged for possession of a plant product, and those that risk growing cannabis for their own medical benefit will be threatened by prison. The increased cost on top of the billions of pounds spent annually policing cannabis will be borne by the taxpayer. Yes readers, your tax bill is about to go up so we can arrest more victimless cannabis users. As a taxpayer, I object most strongly to this, as a voter I object most strongly to our Government ignoring the advice of a committee we have paid for. I hope this will encourage readers to write to our MPs as well as this letters page and get this decision reversed before disaster strikes on top of disaster. JUNE KIDD Llandeilo
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