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Drug Classification

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

461 c335-74WH 

Session

2006-07

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

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Proceeding contributions

Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 461 c335WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to speak in this packed Chamber to open the debate on the Science and Technology Commit...

Evan Harris | 461 c335WH (Link to this contribution) As a member of the Committee, I share my hon. Friend’s analysis of the Government and ACMD responses...

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Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 461 c336-7WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Indeed, when Professor Sir Michael Rawlings and Professor David Nut...

Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 461 c337-41WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend tempts me to go in a direction that I do not want to pursue, other than to say that i...

Brian Iddon | 461 c341-5WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time, Mr. Bercow. The misuse and abu...

Paul Flynn | 461 c348-50WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed—entirely. However, I think that there is a sense of desperation. I have spoken at committee m...

Evan Harris | 461 c348WH (Link to this contribution) I do not want to preface what I shall say later, but I can assure the hon. Gentleman that our policy...

Paul Flynn | 461 c347-8WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Select Committee on its splendid report, which I am afraid will, along with the W...

Brian Iddon | 461 c345-7WH (Link to this contribution) I had just mentioned, before the Division, that a former Home Secretary had implied that there might...

Evan Harris | 461 c350-5WH (Link to this contribution) I speak with two hats on today: I have been a member of the Science and Technology Committee, includ...

Paul Flynn | 461 c358WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald was making what was to her was a powerful point, s...

Paul Flynn | 461 c360WH (Link to this contribution) As a sentencer, is the hon. and learned Gentleman at ease with the fact that although someone might ...

Evan Harris | 461 c337WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is putting the case superbly; it really is a clear exposition of the dilemma. Judging...

Evan Harris | 461 c356WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and I am aware of the evidence. On 31 May 2006, BBC Onl...

Lord Coaker | 461 c356WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise for intervening, because it is often better to listen to the whole debate and to respond...

Brian Iddon | 461 c355-6WH (Link to this contribution) I understand that that Kent school has now dropped the idea. It was extremely costly in the first pl...

Evan Harris | 461 c355WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed. It is important to say that the Select Committee’s report did not say that there should not ...

Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 461 c355WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the Government’s difficulties is the public perception that th...

Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 461 c373-4WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that intervention, which highlights the issue of research. One of the repor...

Lord Coaker | 461 c373WH (Link to this contribution) In rushing through my remarks, I failed to make an extremely important point. The hon. Gentleman’s c...

Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 461 c372-3WH (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to detain hon. Members for too long. I thank the Minister enormously for the way in wh...

Lord Coaker | 461 c370-2WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman keeps returning to the issue of ecstasy. I have said that the ACMD will consider ...

Evan Harris | 461 c370WH (Link to this contribution) I think that the Minister is coming to the end of his remarks. Before he does, I want him to return ...

Lord Coaker | 461 c368-70WH (Link to this contribution) We will have to wait and see, but the Government have no intention of reclassifying ecstasy. I was a...

Evan Harris | 461 c367-8WH (Link to this contribution) I know that the Government have no plans to reclassify ecstasy. That is taken as read. However, the ...

Lord Coaker | 461 c366-7WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to the Chair, Mr. Bercow. I also welcome other hon. Members who have contributed to th...

Lord Garnier | 461 c364-5WH (Link to this contribution) The short answer to the hon. Gentleman’s last question is that I simply do not know. I do not have e...

Evan Harris | 461 c364WH (Link to this contribution) Of course, I agree with the hon. and learned Gentleman about the indisputable importance of using re...

Speaker | 461 c360WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I apologise for interrupting the hon. and learned Gentleman, but once again I have become awa...

Lord Garnier | 461 c360WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman anticipates me and his intervention invites me to get ahead of myself. I congratu...

Lord Garnier | 461 c363-4WH (Link to this contribution) According to the 2004-05 British crime survey published by the Home Office in October 2005, there ar...

Lord Garnier | 461 c360-3WH (Link to this contribution) By the time that I finish, hon. Members might think that it is not a bad idea to have a 15-minute br...

Evan Harris | 461 c358-9WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, indeed. The hon. Gentleman brings me to the case of the hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Johnson), a...

Lord Garnier | 461 c359-60WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr. Bercow. I begin by thanking the Committee Chairman, t...

Evan Harris | 461 c357-8WH (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting intervention, and I am afraid that I shall become epidemiological again. I am...

Subjects

Crime Drugs Health education Misuse Ecstasy Psilocybin

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