U.K. Docs Say Pot Ain't So Bad

Reuters

10:25 a.m. March 14, 2002 PST

LONDON -- Medical experts gave the go-ahead Thursday for Britain to reclassify cannabis as low risk, in the latest in a series of moves relaxing attitudes toward soft drugs.

In a report to Home Secretary David Blunkett, medical experts from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs said all cannabis preparations should be downgraded to Class C -- the lowest-risk grouping of controlled drugs. Classifying it as any higher risk was "disproportionate," the report said.

The downgrade would put cannabis, which the government estimates was used by more than 1.5 million 16- to 24-year-olds in Britain last year, in the same category as anabolic steroids and growth hormones.

The government stressed it had no plans to decriminalize cannabis and had made no final decisions on whether to reclassify the drug.

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