Gordon Brown Admits He Bullied The Cabinet To Reclassify Cannabis Against Scientific Advice

13 Jun Gordon Brown Admits He Bullied The Cabinet To Reclassify Cannabis Against Scientific Advice

“Were policies such as the u-turn on casinos, reclassification

of cannabis and the retreat on 24-hour drinking attempts to

appease the Daily Mail in your view?”

“No. If you look at each one of these individual issues — and I

don’t want to bore you with them— I personally have strong

opinions, as an individual, about the evil of excessive gambling.

I thought that the 24-hour licensing was causing us problems,

and on cannabis, you know, I don’t hold what is probably the

more conventional view about the effects of soft drugs, so I was

against the reclassification of cannabis and in fact we reclassified

it back. These are views that I hold personally and I hold them

quite strongly and I may say that probably I used my position

to persuade members of the government who were not as keen

on that policy as I was.”