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		<title>Statement on Cannabis</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/statement-on-cannabis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Hansard the Home Secretary responding to a question from Keith Vaz MP about how the decision to reclassify cannabis will be conveyed to young people:
We are allocating more than £6 million this year, partly to the “Frank” campaign, which has proven very successful, with a high rate of recognition among young people, and in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1271&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reclassification Reaction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frankly it&#8217;s been a bit daunting trying to get a grip of all the reaction out there, but with no promises about chronology here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve seen:
Bolton MP slams &#8216;pointless&#8217; cannabis decision &#8211; The Bolton News carries Brian Iddon&#8217;s views, which include the need for better drug education.
Are voters getting drugs message? -The BBC&#8217;s home [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1266&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cannabis Returns to Class B</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 11:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you&#8217;ll no doubt have seen the ACMD report, Cannabis: Classification and Public Health, and the government&#8217;s announcement that cannabis is to be reclassified has been the subject of a lot of media reporting.
If I have time today I&#8217;ll try and capture all of that, but before I do that I thought it would be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1264&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Put that in your pipe&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/put-that-in-your-pipe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 10:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Taylor, the Chief Executive of the RSA, writes about the reclassification debate:
As the father of teenage sons I sometimes hear them talk about their peers smoking ‘weed’. For them it seems to be an aspect of identity, with smokers seen as a subset of what used to be called grungers; teens who wear baggie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1255&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cannabis in the News</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/cannabis-in-the-news-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 09:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of cannabis stories over the long weekend, three from The Observer. It had a long piece, Hippie dream, modern nightmare, which includes this comment from Rethink:
&#8216;Resources could be put to much better use educating young people and the public about the physical and mental health risks associated with cannabis &#8211; we know education, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1253&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Police reject tougher action on cannabis</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/police-reject-tougher-action-on-cannabis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 08:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian suggest that the police want to keep their flexibility on dealing with those caught in posession of cannabis:
An Acpo spokesman last night: &#8220;The key will be the discretion for officers to strike the right balance. We do not want to criminalise young people who are experimenting.&#8221; However, he stressed that cases involving &#8220;aggravating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1244&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The only message being sent is of cowardice and stupidity</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/the-only-message-being-sent-is-of-cowardice-and-stupidity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simon Jenkins writing in the The Guardian about cannabis classification says:
Even if the fall in consumption is not due to the 2004 reclassification, there is no evidence that reclassification increased harm. The fall was probably due to more education about the dangers of abuse, as occurs with bad news stories about ecstasy and LSD. Consumption [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1241&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t criminalise my students for smoking cannabis, Mr Brown &#8211; Birmingham</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/dont-criminalise-my-students-for-smoking-cannabis-mr-brown-birmingham/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Birmingham Post Chris Game, a lecturer at the Institute of Local Government Studies at the University of Birmingham, decries the intention to reclassify cannabis.  He argues:
In short, recreational use of cannabis and to a lesser extent ecstasy and amphetamines is today part of the range of behaviours – sex, drinking alcohol, smoking, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1235&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cannabis in the News (2)</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/cannabis-in-the-news-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More coverage of the decision facing the government on the classification of cannabis:

Channel 4 &#8211; Brown set to ignore drug advice
Daily Star &#8211; Brown &#8216;To Toughen Cannabis Laws&#8217;
Independent &#8211; Brown to push for cannabis reclassification
Daily Mail &#8211;  Cannabis U-turn: Four years on, Brown concedes it was a mistake to go soft on drug
Guardian &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1233&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cannabis in the News</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/cannabis-in-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Classification makes the news in a number of papers, they all are agreed that the government are going to reclassify cannabis, and that the ACMD don&#8217;t share that assessment:

The Mirror &#8211; Gordon Brown in cannabis row snub
The Guardian &#8211; Call for science to rule on risk of illegal drugs
The Daily Telegraph &#8211; Gordon Brown to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1229&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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