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Jump to full article: Agence France Presse (AFP) (fr), 2008-10-02
Intro: CANNABIS is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco, according to a report by a British research charity today, which called for a "serious rethink" of drug policy.
The Beckley Foundation, a charity which numbers senior British and other academics among its advisers, said banning cannabis has no impact on supply and turns users into criminals.
"Although cannabis can have a negative impact on health, including mental health, in terms of relative harms it is considerably less harmful than alcohol or tobacco," says the report by the Foundation's Global Cannabis Commission.
The British Government is pressing for cannabis to be re-classified in law as a Class B drug compared with its current, less serious, Class C classification.
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