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Cannabis Reclassification In The United KingdomCannabis reclassification in the United Kingdom refers to efforts to transfer cannabis to a different Class of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. Home Secretary David Blunkett announced in 2001 that cannabis would be transferred from Class B of the Act to Class C, removing the threat of arrest for possession. Arrest would still be possible for distributing the drug, howeverhttp://www.idmu.co.uk/homeoffpr.htm. International criticism In 2003, the INCB criticized Great Britain for considering rescheduling cannabis from a class B to a class C drug. The INCB's annual report warnedhttp://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/280/roadtovienna.shtml: - The reclassification of cannabis by the Government of the United Kingdom would undermine the efforts of the Governments of African countries to counter illicit cannabis cultivation, trafficking, and abuse.
Philip O. Emafo, INCB chairman, saidhttp://www.whspliff.net/blunkettun.html: - It is important that consensus prevails in international drug control. No government should take unilateral measures without considering the impact of its actions and ultimately the consequences for an entire system that took governments almost a century to establish.
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