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UK's pot scheduling yo-yo

Is the new boss the same as the old boss? Not in the UK. While Hipster-swinger Bush-lackey Tony Blair reclassified pot as a Class C drug for UK citizens, the new Prime Gordon Brown is more of a tight-ass:

Gordon Brown today indicated his strong support for re-classifying cannabis again as a Class B drug.

At his monthly Downing Street news conference, the Prime Minister said that he was determined to send a signal to young people that the use of cannabis was "unacceptable".

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In January 2004 former Prime Minister Tony Blair downgraded cannabis from a Class B drug to Class C - and the police stopped routinely arresting users of the drug.

At present heroin, cocaine and LSD belong to the strictest classification - Class A, while amphetamines are in Class B.

I could make some comments about how unpopular and unimaginative politicians always like to use pot as a political football, but that would mean "political soccer ball" in the UK, and I'm not sure that's the same thing. But on a side note, you ever see the way they roll spliffs in the UK? Total bombers man.

Posted By jamesk at 2008-04-01 11:40:12 permalink | comments
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zupakomputer. : 2008-04-04 13:25:05
Cones are best with grass I think; it's impossible to get grass loads of places here, hence the hash joints being so popular. In any event, I only use the one skin, king size.....however just about everyone else I ever smoked with up this way (where there's no grass) would stick 3 rizla's together. It was like some kind of 3-rizla cult.
England's way different, I never had problems getting all kinds of stuff down south.
jamesk : 2008-04-03 11:09:26
A bomber spliff is one of those cone-shaped joints that is super-long, usually rolled with tobacco and hash, sometimes just pot. A brit I met at a hostel in Thailand showed me the proper way to roll one. Four papers mate.
zupakomputer. : 2008-04-03 09:17:06
Brown's an idiot - so was Blair, his mob banned shrooms outright remember, even though they moved cannabis down a level. And they closed loads of Speakeasy coffeeshops that opened up in expectation that it was going to be decriminalised properly.

Here's an example of how much of a total dickwads they are: recently I signed a petition to demand cannabis be legalised, on the governments beta-site on petitions.

Someone changed the demands of the petition so it focused on claiming the legalisation was a good idea because then addicts could be treated - so I get this moron-reply from the govt. saying 'yes we know it's addictive, that's why we think it should be classed as more dangerous', so I e-mailed them back a couple of letters letting them know exactly how wrong and evil they are.

Other than that - what is a bomber spliff? And they just call soccer football here, your version's called 'American football'. Your version's better; the culture that surrounds football here is the ugliest thing. It's like a bandwidth worm, taking up processing space in millions of brains.
Oh but, it's perfectly healthy to commit loads of your life to how some high-paid people's jobs are going.

What's the difference between smoking a joint and watching your team play?

The joint guarantees you'll come away from it happy every time you have a smoke.

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