Nomen Nescio wrote: [...]
unrelated - did you notice that "for the children" meme is almost gone and replaced with "against the terrorism" ?
They forgot about "evil drug pushers" as well. British government started to downgrade criminal punishments for hemp within days of this business starting. They always wanted to (why waste all those police wages picking up kids smoking joints?) but never dared to because they think they will lose votes if they look "soft on crime". Every British govt. since at least 1950s has talked louder than it has walked, most ludicrously Thatcher's Tories who introduced scads of laws against everything from dangerous dogs to playing loud music at parties, most of which were never enforced at all. Anything for a headline in the "Something Must Be Done" tabloid press. Now there is a war on, and they can look hard by bombing Afghanistan. So no need to pretend about hemp any more. They are even suggesting being slightly softer on asylum seekers & illegal immigrants, a very unexpected result. Weird. Ken Brown