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Independent of whom? Independent of what? Our Gullible Media fall for yet another bit of lobbying

15 October 2012 11:09 AM

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Independent of whom? Independent of what? Our Gullible Media fall for yet another bit of lobbying

Very briefly, how ‘independent’ is the UK Drug Policy Commission (UKDPC), and from whom is it ‘independent’? Is there anyone on this grandiosely named ‘commission’ who is sceptical of the liberalisation agenda? If so, who?

Yet this body, which seems to me to be no better than a common or garden pressure group, is today treated with open-mouthed respect, as if it is some kind of Royal Commission, by several newspapers and (of course) the BBC.

Why?

By the way, a short note from an interview with Mr Roger Howard of the UKDPC, on Radio 4’s Today programme

(It begins at 7.51, and is about two minutes in). He said: ‘In some ways we have to acknowledge that over the years the police have gone down this pathway if we look at cannabis warnings. Y’know, there has been a de jure ( pronounced dee jaw) and de facto decriminalisation [of cannabis]. We’re saying the law needs to catch up with that’.

Well, stap me vitals if that point, about the cannabis warning, isn’t exactly the one I keep trying to make.

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