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Regulation of Cannabis

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

441 c982-98 

Session

2005-06

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Drug Classification System
Thursday, 2 March 2006
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Paul Flynn | 441 c991 (Link to this contribution) Should we not take advantage of the Leader of the Opposition’s intelligent and progressive views on ...

Charles Clarke | 441 c991 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that one needs to proceed on the basis of evidence. We have sometimes ar...

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Christopher Chope | 441 c991 (Link to this contribution) How can we take the Home Secretary seriously when we know that his Department turns a blind eye to t...

Charles Clarke | 441 c992 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman’s statement is entirely untrue. It is not the case that a blind eye is turned. It...

Charles Clarke | 441 c990 (Link to this contribution) I certainly will welcome my hon. Friend’s police colleagues. She has briefed me on that exchange vis...

John Greenway | 441 c990-1 (Link to this contribution) Had the previous Home Secretary not declassified cannabis, there is no way that the evidence that th...

Charles Clarke | 441 c991 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to have a conversation with the hon. Gentleman about those matters and I respect his own ...

Charles Clarke | 441 c993-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is correct. I have been very concerned, and I have seen many cases myself, as I am su...

Bob Spink | 441 c994 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that his disappointing and confusing refusal to reclassify cannabi...

Charles Clarke | 441 c993 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give the House the figure at this moment, but we have a very substantial advertising spend ...

Laura Moffatt | 441 c993 (Link to this contribution) Grown-up Governments genuinely try to reduce the harm from dangerous drugs, and I welcome my right h...

Charles Clarke | 441 c992-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely correct. I pay tribute to his scientific work to try to get those issues ...

Nigel Evans | 441 c993 (Link to this contribution) The initial report of the advisory council said that cannabis was harmful, and I was amazed that it ...

Charles Clarke | 441 c992 (Link to this contribution) I am surprised to say that I agree with the hon. Gentleman. Clarity is the most important thing. One...

Brian Iddon | 441 c992 (Link to this contribution) The fact is that tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, is the drug and, furthermore, there are more than 20 ...

Pete Wishart | 441 c992 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the review of classification. Some of us have been advocating that for years. Will t...

Charles Clarke | 441 c992 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. That is why I am announcing today joint work with the Secretary of Stat...

Joan Ruddock | 441 c992 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his response to the advisory council today. With more than 9 ...

Charles Clarke | 441 c994 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is expressing the confusion that I have referred to throughout t...

Julian Lewis | 441 c994 (Link to this contribution) Is it not obvious that the Home Secretary is deeply uncomfortable with the statement that he has mad...

Charles Clarke | 441 c994 (Link to this contribution) The short answer to that is no—and give up the conspiracy theories.

Charles Clarke | 441 c995 (Link to this contribution) There are two points to make. The first is that, as the hon. Gentleman knows, since 1 January the po...

Colin Breed | 441 c994-5 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will know that most schools have a policy whereby if cannabis is found on stu...

Charles Clarke | 441 c994 (Link to this contribution) I am, of course, grateful for my hon. Friend’s comments on this question. I hope that he will agree—...

Lindsay Hoyle | 441 c994 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s education policies about the dangers of cannabis, but there is a mu...

Charles Clarke | 441 c995 (Link to this contribution) I can give the hon. Lady that assurance. She has a distinguished record of contribution to this deba...

Angela Watkinson | 441 c995 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Home Secretary’s acknowledgment of the links between mental illness and cannabis use, ...

Charles Clarke | 441 c995 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is correct. That is why I have focused on policing strategies, because those relation...

Lord Mann | 441 c995 (Link to this contribution) The Hemp Embassy in Nimbin, Australia is the spiritual home of the legalise cannabis campaign, and i...

John Robertson | 441 c995 (Link to this contribution) I echo the sentiments of my hon. Friend the Member for Chorley (Mr. Hoyle) on reclassification, but ...

Tim Loughton | 441 c996 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State’s proposals, particularly on education and on targeting supply. I e...

Charles Clarke | 441 c995-6 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for his strong campaigning on these issues over a considerable perio...

Lynne Jones | 441 c996 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my right hon. Friend on accepting the advisory council’s recommendations and on...

Charles Clarke | 441 c996 (Link to this contribution) It was for the advisory council to decide how to conduct its evidence taking and consideration of th...

Mark Francois | 441 c996-7 (Link to this contribution) I sense that the Home Secretary is somewhat torn on this issue, so may I emphasise the point made by...

Charles Clarke | 441 c996 (Link to this contribution) Without judging whether such a campaign would do more or less in that regard, I certainly agree that...

Tony Lloyd | 441 c997 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, welcome the tone of my right hon. Friend’s statement, which rejects the moral outrage th...

Charles Clarke | 441 c997 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman is a very sensitive flower, so I appreciate his concern for my sensit...

David Burrowes | 441 c998 (Link to this contribution) Is it not true that if we reclassified cannabis, we could spend more time debating and focusing on e...

Charles Clarke | 441 c997-8 (Link to this contribution) I understand that point, but I do think it very important to make it clear that cannabis is an illeg...

Charles Clarke | 441 c998 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for those comments. She has put her finger on precisely the issue th...

Geraldine Smith | 441 c998 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s decision to review the whole drug classification system, which is c...

Charles Clarke | 441 c987 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, my hon. Friend features on the Division list, having voted as he did. Strangely, the nine Me...

Natascha Engel | 441 c990 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend is aware, it is the police work on the ground that is key to combating drug-...

Charles Clarke | 441 c990 (Link to this contribution) That was a helpful question. Yes, I will look at Sweden, which is always a model for social democrat...

Charles Clarke | 441 c989 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for what he has said, but I hope he agrees that, as I said in my statement, t...

David Winnick | 441 c989 (Link to this contribution) May I point out that the only Conservative member of the Home Affairs Committee who voted against th...

Charles Clarke | 441 c988-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome elements of what the hon. Gentleman said. He is right to say that the education campaign—I...

Mark Oaten | 441 c988 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for giving notice of his statement. The Liberal Democrats strongly welcom...

Charles Clarke | 441 c988 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is entirely right. That is why I made my decision. Clinical, medical harm is th...

John Denham | 441 c987-8 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, and in particular his review of the classification syste...

David Winnick | 441 c987 (Link to this contribution) That was my amendment.

Charles Clarke | 441 c986-7 (Link to this contribution) There are four matters to which I need to respond. First, I hope that the right hon. Member for Halt...

David Davis | 441 c984-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for the courtesy of allowing me advance notice of his statement. It would...

Charles Clarke | 441 c982-4 (Link to this contribution) With permission, I would like to make a statement on the regulation of cannabis. The House will know...

Charles Clarke | 441 c998 (Link to this contribution) That, of course, is precisely the message that I am trying to send, and I hope that all Members of t...

Iain Duncan Smith | 441 c989-90 (Link to this contribution) I must say that I was disappointed by the statement, although I welcomed much of it. It is, of cours...

Subjects

Cannabis Health hazards Drugs Mental illness Misuse Research Side effects

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