What the Papers Say (Editorials) News Stories

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• Why we should legalise hard drugs
  The Observer, 23rd Feb 2003
  

  I was having lunch last week with a senior member of the Garda Siochana or Irish police in Dublin. He is a man with 32 years of service fighting crime in the Irish capital. 

• Stay Cool About Cannabis Dangers
  The Guardian Leader, 12th Nov 2002
  

  Bill Clinton - “I puffed, but I didn’t inhale” - was wiser than he knew. A new report from the British Lung Foundation, based on 90 published research studies, suggests that three cannabis joints a day can cause the same damage to the lining of the lungs as 20 cigarettes;

• Save the Earth, but what about the marijuana?
  The Times, 26th Aug 2002
  

  What the papers say in South Africa, from Ray Kennedy in Johannesburg

• Mo The woman in the know - A class act or bungle?
  Sunday Mirror, 14th Jul 2002
  

  AT last we are beginning to see some sense from the Government regarding cannabis. It is to be reclassified from a class B to a class C drug.

• Cannabis reclassified: what the papers said
  The Observer, 14th Jul 2002
  

  Last Wednesday the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, announced both that the government intends to reclassify cannabis from a class B to a class C drug and that the maximum sentence for dealing class C drugs will be raised to 14 years. Here’s a selection of the press reaction

• Media smoked up as Britain goes soft on cannabis
  Lifeclinic, 11th Jul 2002
  

  LONDON (Reuters) - British media took a dim view on Thursday of the government’s decision to ease penalties on cannabis users in the face of a dramatic rise in the drug’s use. 

• At last, a statement of the obvious about cannabis
  The Independent, 15th Mar 2002
  

  The film of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone had more advance publicity than yesterday’s report from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, but not much more. 

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