This pseudo-tough move to reclassify cannabis.

[Park Life 71]

"Next week, we are reliably told, Gordon Brown will reclassify cannabis as a class B drug rather than a class C. This obscure decision, taken in defiance of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, is a vignette of modern British government. Brown has no evidence to alter what is a pharmacological classification, but is happy to abuse science to "send a message".

 

Sending messages is the last refuge of the impotent. Nor is the recipient of this message to be cannabis users, long immune to such gestures. It is the editor of the Daily Mail, another amateur pharmacologist who is the prime minister's last friend in an ever-fickle Fleet Street, and whose pages have been obsessed with cannabis for weeks.

 

I declare an interest as a member of the Police Foundation committee under Ruth Runciman, which proposed widespread drug reclassification in 2000. Though rejected by Jack Straw, cannabis reclassification from B to C was implemented by David Blunkett in 2004, though the effect of lowering the penalty for possession was reversed when a panicky Blunkett promptly restored cannabis to the class of arrestable and imprisonable drugs."

 

 

Utter bollocks. Lions led by sheep etc.......

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/20...medicalresearch

[Guest alex]

I would say one of the reasons Brown is doing so poorly in the opinion polls is that people are really sick of Labour and its style over substance (excuse the shit pun) brand of government. Btw, I believe Cannabis use has actually gone down since it was reclassified to C.

[NJS 4454]

Desperate attempt to woo Mail readers.

 

I found his admission that he'd fucked up over the 10p thing quite honest but this is plain daft.

[Guest alex]

I really detest The Daily Mail I must say. The Express is almost as bad but at least no one actually reads it.

[Park Life 71]

I would say one of the reasons Brown is doing so poorly in the opinion polls is that people are really sick of Labour and its style over substance (excuse the shit pun) brand of government. Btw, I believe Cannabis use has actually gone down since it was reclassified to C.

 

...and you'd be right.

 

 

I like your new av btw.

Edited April 30, 2008 by Park Life

[ewerk 31641]

I would say one of the reasons Brown is doing so poorly in the opinion polls is that people are really sick of Labour and its style over substance (excuse the shit pun) brand of government. Btw, I believe Cannabis use has actually gone down since it was reclassified to C.

 

Perhaps it was under Blair but Brown lacks any sort of style or charisma and for me that will be his main downfall when he comes up against Cameron.

[Guest alex]

I would say one of the reasons Brown is doing so poorly in the opinion polls is that people are really sick of Labour and its style over substance (excuse the shit pun) brand of government. Btw, I believe Cannabis use has actually gone down since it was reclassified to C.

 

Perhaps it was under Blair but Brown lacks any sort of style or charisma and for me that will be his main downfall when he comes up against Cameron.

You knew exactly what I meant

[Guest alex]

I would say one of the reasons Brown is doing so poorly in the opinion polls is that people are really sick of Labour and its style over substance (excuse the shit pun) brand of government. Btw, I believe Cannabis use has actually gone down since it was reclassified to C.

 

...and you'd be right.

 

 

I like your new av btw.

Usual Suspects

[ewerk 31641]

I would say one of the reasons Brown is doing so poorly in the opinion polls is that people are really sick of Labour and its style over substance (excuse the shit pun) brand of government. Btw, I believe Cannabis use has actually gone down since it was reclassified to C.

 

Perhaps it was under Blair but Brown lacks any sort of style or charisma and for me that will be his main downfall when he comes up against Cameron.

You knew exactly what I meant

 

For fuck's sake I'm not trying to start a fucking argument I'm just making a point, stop being so bloody sensitive.

[luckyluke 2]

I would say one of the reasons Brown is doing so poorly in the opinion polls is that people are really sick of Labour and its style over substance (excuse the shit pun) brand of government. Btw, I believe Cannabis use has actually gone down since it was reclassified to C.

 

Yeah but that's because everyone's doing coke these days.

 

The classification of drugs should really have nothing to do with the government. 'Political football' is an overused phrase but it really is warrented with regards to cannabis.

[Guest alex]

I would say one of the reasons Brown is doing so poorly in the opinion polls is that people are really sick of Labour and its style over substance (excuse the shit pun) brand of government. Btw, I believe Cannabis use has actually gone down since it was reclassified to C.

 

Perhaps it was under Blair but Brown lacks any sort of style or charisma and for me that will be his main downfall when he comes up against Cameron.

You knew exactly what I meant

 

For fuck's sake I'm not trying to start a fucking argument I'm just making a point, stop being so bloody sensitive.

Whatever Mary.

[Guest alex]

I would say one of the reasons Brown is doing so poorly in the opinion polls is that people are really sick of Labour and its style over substance (excuse the shit pun) brand of government. Btw, I believe Cannabis use has actually gone down since it was reclassified to C.

 

Yeah but that's because everyone's doing coke these days.

 

The classification of drugs should really have nothing to do with the government. 'Political football' is an overused phrase but it really is warrented with regards to cannabis.

The amount of people doing coke now is incredible like. I was down London a few weeks ago and I reckon at least half the bar I was in was on it.

[Park Life 71]

I would say one of the reasons Brown is doing so poorly in the opinion polls is that people are really sick of Labour and its style over substance (excuse the shit pun) brand of government. Btw, I believe Cannabis use has actually gone down since it was reclassified to C.

 

Yeah but that's because everyone's doing coke these days.

 

The classification of drugs should really have nothing to do with the government. 'Political football' is an overused phrase but it really is warrented with regards to cannabis.

The amount of people doing coke now is incredible like. I was down London a few weeks ago and I reckon at least half the bar I was in was on it.

 

I've had to knock it on the head, get too depressed afterwards.

[Guest alex]

It's alright if you do a little bit along with say, drink and weed. I find doing a load shit though. I really do, even when I've had proper rocket fuel. You just end up with a bad head and a shit come down and an a general feeling that it just wasn't worth it.

[Park Life 71]

It's alright if you do a little bit along with say, drink and weed. I find doing a load shit though. I really do, even when I've had proper rocket fuel. You just end up with a bad head and a shit come down and an a general feeling that it just wasn't worth it.

 

Totally agree with those sentiments. If you can stop at around 3 ish it's not so bad for sure.

[luckyluke 2]

I would say one of the reasons Brown is doing so poorly in the opinion polls is that people are really sick of Labour and its style over substance (excuse the shit pun) brand of government. Btw, I believe Cannabis use has actually gone down since it was reclassified to C.

 

Yeah but that's because everyone's doing coke these days.

 

The classification of drugs should really have nothing to do with the government. 'Political football' is an overused phrase but it really is warrented with regards to cannabis.

The amount of people doing coke now is incredible like. I was down London a few weeks ago and I reckon at least half the bar I was in was on it.

 

I've been in bars in Leeds where you can smell it as soon as you walk in, and with people doing it off the tables rather than in the toilets.

[Guest alex]

I would say one of the reasons Brown is doing so poorly in the opinion polls is that people are really sick of Labour and its style over substance (excuse the shit pun) brand of government. Btw, I believe Cannabis use has actually gone down since it was reclassified to C.

 

Yeah but that's because everyone's doing coke these days.

 

The classification of drugs should really have nothing to do with the government. 'Political football' is an overused phrase but it really is warrented with regards to cannabis.

The amount of people doing coke now is incredible like. I was down London a few weeks ago and I reckon at least half the bar I was in was on it.

 

I've been in bars in Leeds where you can smell it as soon as you walk in, and with people doing it off the tables rather than in the toilets.

Tbh, I don't go out in the Toon very much these days and when I do it's normally a meal with the missus and friends but it'll be the same there no doubt. Canny funny that loads of it was detected in the bogs at the Labour Party Conference a couple of years ago. Hypocrites man, I fucking hate them.

[Happy Face 29]

Liked the sound of Brown on five live this morning. Came across as a British Obama.

 

"Don't nobody give a shit what I have for breakfast G, I gots an ecomony to restructure!"

[luckyluke 2]

I would say one of the reasons Brown is doing so poorly in the opinion polls is that people are really sick of Labour and its style over substance (excuse the shit pun) brand of government. Btw, I believe Cannabis use has actually gone down since it was reclassified to C.

 

Yeah but that's because everyone's doing coke these days.

 

The classification of drugs should really have nothing to do with the government. 'Political football' is an overused phrase but it really is warrented with regards to cannabis.

The amount of people doing coke now is incredible like. I was down London a few weeks ago and I reckon at least half the bar I was in was on it.

 

I've been in bars in Leeds where you can smell it as soon as you walk in, and with people doing it off the tables rather than in the toilets.

Tbh, I don't go out in the Toon very much these days and when I do it's normally a meal with the missus and friends but it'll be the same there no doubt. Canny funny that loads of it was detected in the bogs at the Labour Party Conference a couple of years ago. Hypocrites man, I fucking hate them.

 

Possibly the least surprising sentance I have ever read.

 

As for hypocrites, I think the journos are just as bad.

[Park Life 71]

Liked the sound of Brown on five live this morning. Came across as a British Obama.

 

"Don't nobody give a shit what I have for breakfast G, I gots an ecomony to restructure!"

[Guest alex]

Journalists are worse, if anything imo. Part of the reason I dislike them so much in general too with the faux morality.

Edited April 30, 2008 by alex

[Park Life 71]

I would say one of the reasons Brown is doing so poorly in the opinion polls is that people are really sick of Labour and its style over substance (excuse the shit pun) brand of government. Btw, I believe Cannabis use has actually gone down since it was reclassified to C.

 

Yeah but that's because everyone's doing coke these days.

 

The classification of drugs should really have nothing to do with the government. 'Political football' is an overused phrase but it really is warrented with regards to cannabis.

The amount of people doing coke now is incredible like. I was down London a few weeks ago and I reckon at least half the bar I was in was on it.

 

I've been in bars in Leeds where you can smell it as soon as you walk in, and with people doing it off the tables rather than in the toilets.

Tbh, I don't go out in the Toon very much these days and when I do it's normally a meal with the missus and friends but it'll be the same there no doubt. Canny funny that loads of it was detected in the bogs at the Labour Party Conference a couple of years ago. Hypocrites man, I fucking hate them.

 

Possibly the least surprising sentance I have ever read.

 

As for hypocrites, I think the journos are just as bad.

 

It's all over the House of Commons as well btw and in the Law courts at Temple Bar....But some of those geezers do work long hours.

[Guest alex]

There's loads of geezers I know through my Dad who are mid 40s and older who take it fairly regularly too.

[Fop 1]

"Next week, we are reliably told, Gordon Brown will reclassify cannabis as a class B drug rather than a class C. This obscure decision, taken in defiance of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, is a vignette of modern British government. Brown has no evidence to alter what is a pharmacological classification, but is happy to abuse science to "send a message".

 

Sending messages is the last refuge of the impotent. Nor is the recipient of this message to be cannabis users, long immune to such gestures. It is the editor of the Daily Mail, another amateur pharmacologist who is the prime minister's last friend in an ever-fickle Fleet Street, and whose pages have been obsessed with cannabis for weeks.

 

I declare an interest as a member of the Police Foundation committee under Ruth Runciman, which proposed widespread drug reclassification in 2000. Though rejected by Jack Straw, cannabis reclassification from B to C was implemented by David Blunkett in 2004, though the effect of lowering the penalty for possession was reversed when a panicky Blunkett promptly restored cannabis to the class of arrestable and imprisonable drugs."

 

 

Utter bollocks. Lions led by sheep etc.......

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/20...medicalresearch

 

Aye, pretty much.

[Park Life 71]

There's loads of geezers I know through my Dad who are mid 40s and older who take it fairly regularly too.

 

 

The other problem I have with it is that I tend to chain smoke without realising it.