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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to take action to prevent the reclassification of Cannabis to a class B drug, in order to maintain the separation between Cannabis and harder drugs such as cocaine and heroin. More details
Submitted by Michael Keefe – Deadline to sign up by: 01 February 2009 – Signatures: 75
More details from petition creator
It's said that Cannabis is a "gateway drug", meaning it can lead to the use of harder drugs. The reason for this is in plain sight - Cannabis is illegal, and is therefore available in the same way as hard drugs including Heroin, Cocaine, Ecstasy, etc. In other words, under most circumstances, one must visit a dealer in order to obtain Cannabis, and many dealers will also have harder drugs to offer.
By reclassifying Cannabis to class B, the government will effectively be drawing comparisons between the relatively safe Cannabis and the extremely harmful and addictive amphetamines such as "speed" and "Crystal Meth".
I would like to highlight the fact that after the previous reclassification of cannabis, from class B to class C, it was found that fewer young people were smoking Cannabis. Surely if the government is going to maintain prohibition, at least recognise that the choice to reclassify Cannabis as class C has done some good, and we are now threatening to reverse the work done at a cost of hundreds of thousands of tax-payers' pounds.
Current signatories
Michael Keefe, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Richard Healing
- Max Caldicott
- Edd Allay
- Karen Lawrinson
- ian brocklebank
- EMMA
- Bob Rayner
- DavidJohn Wain
- Paul McCormack
- Sion Brooks
- William Perry
- David Ring
- Billie-Jade Whiles
- Leyla Yildiz
- Ben Matthews
- Neal Gilbride
- Joseph Lysikatos
- Thomas Bruce-Clayton
- Peter Nichol
- gary smith
- Toby Fry
- jason hillman
- Tania Bryson
- jenny
- Ashlea Springer
- m.parry
- Elese Osborne
- Joseph Hull
- Robert
- James Fraser Cole
- Matthew Alexxander Hobson
- Christopher Higham
- Daniel Jones
- Victoria Hellewell
- Gary
- Thomas Royston
- Eddie Gadsden
- Jon Robinsom
- Martin williams
- kieran o'connor
- Adam Douglass
- Cher Ricard
- Colin Scott
- fiona scott
- Chad Fraser
- Matthew Colin Campbell
- Andy Twyman
- Andrew Ben Miller
- Gerrard Roderick
- Aaron hentze
- Adam Moniz
- Darren McGrory
- steven laurie
- thomas wesselman
- MR T CUTAJAR
- Xavier Clarke
- Luke
- Samantha Chelle
- Benjamin Hassan
- Sam Ferguson
- James Beaven
- M Cauchi
- K Brunton
- Kieren
- Richard Ettinghausen
- Shannon Smyth
- Martyn Griffiths
- Rob Brown
- Maxine Dunkley
- samantha smith
- Chris Harding
- nigel birkin
- Nicholas Davies
- Joe Spiteri
