The government wants your opinions – and the Home Office finally coughs up its secrets.
In the Restoring civil liberties section it’s interesting, not to say pleasing, to see that one of the most popular ideas is cannabis law reform.
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Proposals for a review of the drugs classification system FOI release in full and the appeal.
Apparently the Misuse of Drugs Act can’t apply to drugs which have widespread public acceptance according to the Home Office.
Freedom of information appeal on drugs classification – almost 40 pages of black censor pen.
Now the election is out of the way and Charles Clarke is no longer an MP, we have a tiny little bit of the drugs classification report released under the FOI ruling but the vast majority remains, to use the strange term for censorship, “redacted” by the big black pen pending the outcome of the appeal.
Freedom of Information ruling on drug classification proposals blocked by the Home Office
A few weeks ago this blog reported on a significant development. The Drug Equality Alliance (DEA) had obtained a Freedom of Information ruling forcing the […]
Freedom of Information ruling on drug classification proposals
Some more details about the Information Commissioner’s ruling regarding the review of the classification system of the Misuse of Drugs Act has been provided by the Drug Equality Alliance.