[Hekna]

I watched a programme not so long ago that ranked the top ten drugs, both legal and illegal. I don't recall which had the top spot but I believe it was heroin, but alcohol and nicotine were several places above cannabis. Skunk is apparently much stronger and I think this is where the government keeps focusing its attention and lumping all types in together. I think perhaps they should look into classing skunk as B and other forms of cannabis as C. I personally believe this 'what shall we class it as now' attitude is a bit of a joke. If someone is going to use a drug they're not too fussed what class it is. They should be looking at changing attitudes and trying to prevent people from smoking ANYTHING. When I was at school we had these workshops run by ex-addicts of all sorts of drugs - the one thing they all said they couldn't give up was regular cigarettes.
A point that always interested me - previous studies on drug addiction in the Netherlands showed that the average age of drug addicts has increased every decade since cannabis was decriminalised. The main theory behind this is that fewer young smokers are coming into contact with drug dealers who then try to encourage them to try other drugs. Makes sense to me.