In article , tvaerskaegg@aol.com
(Svenne) wrote:

> It's very strange that hospital admissions for cannabis have 
> increased
> by 50% since its reclassification, considering that the use of
> cannabis has, in the words of Jacki Smith, "significantly decreased"
> since said reclassification. 
Mrs Smith is being less than Frank. Minor lowering in a narrow sector as surveyed
by the BCS does not represent a significant decrease when the age of first use is
dropping so much. Government spins information-fact.

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:46 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), Claude@aol.com
(Claude) wrote:

>In article , tvaerskaegg@aol.com
>(Svenne) wrote:
>
>> It's very strange that hospital admissions for cannabis have 
>> increased
>> by 50% since its reclassification, considering that the use of
>> cannabis has, in the words of Jacki Smith, "significantly decreased"
>> since said reclassification. 

>Mrs Smith is being less than Frank. Minor lowering in a narrow sector as surveyed
>by the BCS does not represent a significant decrease when the age of first use is
>dropping so much. Government spins information-fact. 

Jacki Smith has said cannabis use has "significantly decreased" since
Blunkett's downgrading. That cannabis use has "significantly
decreased" is mentioned in lots of Home Office reports. It has lots of
lovely hard references and it is regularly mentioned in the liberal
media. It is a paradigm of the debate and that's all that matters.

If somebody pulls some figures out of the "drug facts" hat after Brown
reclassifies which shows that use has gone up as a result, it will be
the best thing that could happen. It will cause a lot of damage to the
government and the prohibitionist cause.

I'm beginning to really like the way things are developing, it's fun
watching shitheads shoot themselves in the foot.

Although I must admit that in the short term putting cannabis back in
class B might help pull of the next election for Brown. That's all
that reclassification means for him, but I expect there to be a
nagging headache that just won't go away waiting for him once he gets
back to No 10.

Not least of all because of all the public discontent with rising
crime as a result of plods chasing tokers instead of doing their jobs.

Nice. It's better than Laurel and Hardy.

Svenne