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Woensdag, 7 Mei, 2008

jacqui-smith.jpgDoor Alan Travis | De Minister van Binnenlandse Zaken, Jacqui Smith, zal vandaag de gevaren van meer machtige spanningen van cannabis beklemtonen aangezien zij zou moeten medisch advies tarten door aan te kondigen dat de drug van klasse C aan klasse B. zal worden bevorderd.

Smith zou moeten haar besluit rechtvaardigen door de sterkte van „stinkdier“ spanningen van kruiden nu wijd beschikbare cannabis te benadrukken. Gordon Brown dat vorige week van de „meer dodelijke kwaliteit“ van veel van de nu beschikbare cannabis wordt gewaarschuwd, beschreef het als gatewaydrug, en zei dat de reclassering nodig was „een bericht naar jonge mensen verzenden dat het“ onaanvaardbaar was.

Het besluit vliegt in aanwezigheid van aanbevelingen die vandaag door de wetenschappelijke deskundigen van de overheid, de Adviserende Raad op het Misbruik van Drugs moeten worden gepubliceerd, dat de cannabis klasse C. zou moeten blijven.

ACMD werd gevraagd laatste Juli door Smith om hun derde te nemen de laatste jaren cannabisclassificatie bekijkt. Terwijl het erkennen dat het cannabisgebruik beduidend sinds het besluit van David Blunkett's in 2004 was gedaald om cannabis van klasse B aan klasse C te degraderen, zei zij er echte openbare bezorgdheid over de potentiële geestelijke gevolgen voor de gezondheid, in het bijzonder van sterkere vormen was.

ACMD hield een speciale zitting in Februari en hoorde bewijsmateriaal dat 80% van cannabis die van gebruikers wordt gegrepen van de kruidenverscheidenheid eerder dan hars was. De deskundigen zeiden de kracht van inlandse kruidencannabis geneigd om twee en een half tijden te zijn dat van ingevoerde hars. Maar zij zeiden de gebruikers nu vaak hun opname matigden.

Zij werden ook verteld dat de weerslag van nieuwe schizofreniegevallen die aan GPs worden gemeld, niet omhoog, tussen 1998 en 2005 was gedaald, wijzend op een zwak verband tussen verhoogd kracht en gebruik in het verleden de twee decennia en de geestelijke gezondheidsproblemen.

De vereniging van de Belangrijkste Ambtenaren van de Politie die aan de Beschermer wordt bevestigd dat zij bedoelen hun „te behouden neemt en waarschuwt“ vorige week beleid voor de meesten in beslag wie met een kleine hoeveelheid cannabis worden gevonden, hoewel sommige belangrijkste constables een in plaats daarvan opgelegde boete willen zien.

Men verwacht dat de reclassering, echter, zal leiden tot taaiere handhaving in gevallen waarbij er verergerende factoren zoals openbaar wanorde of bewijsmateriaal van georganiseerde misdaad, bijvoorbeeld betrokkenheid in cannabis groeien het op grote schaal zijn. Since cannabis was downgraded in 2004 the proportion of young people using it has fallen each year from 25.3% in 2003-4 to 20.9% now. Among those aged 16 to 59, the proportion over the same period has fallen from 10.8% to 8.2%, according to the British Crime Survey.

Campaigners for drug law reform have questioned the relevance of the drug classification system, which dates back to 1971.

Roger Howard, chief executive of the UK Drug Policy Commission, and a former government drugs adviser, said last week that this case underlined the muddle at the heart of government over the purpose of a drug classification system which was unlikely ever to be able to “send a message to young people”. Since cannabis had moved from class B to class C, the number of schoolchildren who think it is fine to try cannabis had halved, he said.

Brown’s decision to overturn the advice of his own drug experts by pressing ahead with a tougher policy on cannabis could still face a high court challenge from campaigners. Any such challenge would have to demonstrate that ministers took the decision to upgrade cannabis without fully considering the ACMD’s report. The Guardian understands that at the ACMD meeting, the 23 medical and drug experts heard a presentation on the possible mental health impacts of stronger cannabis from psychologist Dr Martin Frisher of Keele University pharmacy school. The presentation used unpublished data from a confidential report he has drawn up for the Home Office.

He and his colleague, Professor Ilana Crome of Keele’s academic psychiatry unit, used data from 183 GP practices across Britain between 1996 and 2005 to work out whether schizophrenia is on the rise, and whether it can be linked to the increase in cannabis use since the 1970s.

Their paper found that between 1996 and 2005 there had been significant reductions in the prevalence of schizophrenia. From 2000 onwards there were also significant reductions in the prevalence of psychosis.

The authors say this data is “not consistent with the hypothesis that increasing cannabis use in earlier decades is associated with increasing schizophrenia or psychoses from the mid-1990s onwards”.

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