Are classifications based on political or scientific decisions?
They are not based on political decisions. The council advises the government about the harm that drugs do, and we take that advice very seriously. However, on cannabis, we came to a different conclusion. We take a slightly wider view about public safety and it’s our job, our first job, to keep the public safe. We believe the evidence is there that cannabis is more dangerous than it was a few years ago, and it’s for that reason we rejected the advice of the council on this, although we accepted their advice on other matters to do with cannabis, and decided we would go ahead with reclassification.
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