{"id":2013,"date":"2004-01-28T22:53:21","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T02:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/01\/28\/uk-legalizes-er-decriminalizes-er-does"},"modified":"2004-01-28T22:53:21","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T02:53:21","slug":"uk-legalizes-er-decriminalizes-er-does-something-to-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/28\/uk-legalizes-er-decriminalizes-er-does-something-to-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Legalizes, er, Decriminalizes, er, Does Something to Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2459'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p><strong><font size=\"+1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/joint203.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" align=\"left\">Police fear &#8216;cannabis confusion&#8217;<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  The downgrading of cannabis on Thursday will lead to a rise in the number of<br \/>\n  drug addicts and criminals, police officers&#8217; leaders have warned.<\/p>\n<p>  The Police Federation of England and Wales said many people were confused and<br \/>\n  believed the drug was now legal.<\/p>\n<p>  Cannabis has been downgraded from Class B to C, which means police will no longer<br \/>\n  automatically arrest those caught in possession of it.<\/p>\n<p>  The maximum penalty for possession is cut from five to two years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>  The government said the re-classification will bring credibility to its drugs<br \/>\n  strategy and give police more time to tackle hard drugs.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/3440001.stm\">the BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police fear &#8216;cannabis confusion&#8217; The downgrading of cannabis on Thursday will lead to a rise in the number of drug addicts and criminals, police officers&#8217; leaders have warned. The Police Federation of England and Wales said many people were confused &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/28\/uk-legalizes-er-decriminalizes-er-does-something-to-pot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}