Can Britain ever kill its worst taboo? This week’s news of the soaring prevalence of skunk, in place of weaker and less harmful herbal forms of cannabis, is appalling. With other news of prison chaos due to an epidemic of artificial cannabis (spice), government drugs policy is devoid of coherence – and clearly lethal. Deaths from drug misuse are now at an all-time high.
You can tell the state of a society, said Alexis de Tocqueville, by its prisons. Today you tell it by its attitude to drugs. Ten years ago the Labour government recklessly upgraded cannabis from class C to class B, “because of concerns of its impact on mental health”. Then they were minimal. After reclassification, police evidence is that 95% of cannabis used is now skunk. Older forms of “weed” are vanishing.
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