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The curious incident of young people’s reaction to the re-classification of cannabis

The SHEU have published their thoughts on the classification of cannabis that I mentioned here:

We have been collecting information from young people in school about their drug and other behaviour for the last 30 years, and have seen the prevalence of experimentation of cannabis wax and wane and wax once more.

We were obviously very interested to see what was going to happen to figures after the re-classification. We have been contacted by several journalists looking for the predicted rise in young people’s use. We have told them that we have seen no rise, but this ‘good news’ story has never found its way into a headline, which we regret.

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