The government adviser who recommended today’s downgrading of cannabis has repeated his warning that it is still harmful to health.
Sir Michael Rawlins said he had no regrets about the advice that persuaded home secretary David Blunkett to reclassify the drug.

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Trimble slams human rights group
David Trimble has called human rights organisations a “great curse” and accused them of complicity in terrorist killings.
“One of the great curses of this world is the human rights industry,” the Ulster Unionist leader told the Associated Press news agency at an international conference of terrorism victims in Madrid.
“They [...]

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THE number of crimes committed by a hard core of repeat youth offenders went up last year, according to new figures.
The annual report of the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administrator showed that offences committed by young people went up from 29,232 in 2001-2 to 30,129 in 2002-3.
A record number of cases - 37,727 - [...]

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