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Article: Pot stops: British drug reform. (Citings).(proposal to make marijuana "Class C" drug)(Abstract)
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- April 1, 2002
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ACCORDING TO FBI figures released last fall, American police arrested more than 734,000 people for marijuana violations in 2000-a new record. About nine out of 10 arrests were for possession, and the other category, sale/manufacture, included cultivation for personal use.
In the United States, then, it's clearly not true that no one gets arrested for smoking pot anymore. But it looks like that will soon be the case in Britain, home of Europe's harshest drug laws.
Last fall British Home Secretary David Blunkett announced a proposal, expected to take effect this spring, to make marijuana a "Class C" drug. This status, which is shared by anabolic steroids ...