The idea
Perhaps unsurprisingly the Daily Mail continues to pay a level of respect to Cameron, which Gordon Brown simply never had offered to him by any of the press. Meaning their entire output has changed direction from being anti-government, to full on political lobbyist, and its not only Cameron who enjoys such luxury.
What a difference a year makes 2008 and 2009 saw the headlines screaming "Mental Health", "Cannabis Psychosis" and other such utter clap-trap. While the rest of the world started to get a grip on the whole cannabis issue, the United Kingdom, led in no small part by the output of the Daily Mail and others of its ilk, harked back to the 50's to rekindle a negative publicity campaign it once waged against homosexuality (Google search 'Peter Wildeblood' – Wildeblood, ironically, was employed as a Daily Mail writer at the time of his imprisonment for being gay). The new campaign was successful. The current labour government led by Gordon Brown capitulated to the pressure applied by the Daily Mail and changed a law which simply didn't need changing. Criminalising and alienating a large percentage of the British population who like to smoke a joint instead of drinking alcohol. Cannabis was made a class B drug, police ramped up their actions against spotty little oiks found carrying a tenners worth of weed, and no sooner was the law changed making possession a more serious offence, they created another law putting the now class B drug cannabis, on a par with jaywalking, or littering. How does THAT work? According to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith if a person was found in possession of cannabis for a first time, the weed was to be confiscated, and the person found in possession was given a 'street warning'. Same again if that person was caught for a second time. A court case would only ensue if the perp was caught a third time, in the same policing area. A most confused way of dealing with a prickly issue, by wrapping it tighter in beaurocratic red tape. The Daily Mail was full of its own success. Cannabis was branded as 'lethal'. Brown even said as much in a TV interview and the substance was cast off into the anals of history as a bad deal. Or so we thought. Today, the 360' turnaround is complete as the Daily Mail talks for the first time, about the 'healing qualities' of cannabis in a blatant 'old boys club' advertisment which reads as follows;
So there we have it. Proof if it were ever needed, that a drug is only lethal until the Conservatives work out how they can make money from it. Its little wonder then, that the entire UK population completely ignores any news or politicking to do with cannabis. Or that more people than ever are growing their own cannabis in a bid to slow the side-effects of getting old. Adults can only be lied to for so long.
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Why is it important?
the politicians dont care about civil liberties, what they care about is that you support what they have already set in their program.
i believe we are waisting our time here but does it matter? they have already wasted our lives with their laws so nothing to loose.