Then why not have more categories?

Bottler Brown has landed himself in it again!. He has gone on record as saying that he wants cannabis restored to category B drugs, with cocaine and others, but he also decided to invite a drug advisory committee to reinforce his conviction.

The committee decided that although the drug was now more dangerous because some strains are far stronger than the traditional, it should not be included with the category B drugs. Perhaps he should also have asked those families where a younger member has encountered serious mental problems from using the drug?

I can understand that increasing the mandatory prison sentence from the present two years to the five of the hard drugs might be worrying for some experts, but the concern among many workers among drug users that cannabis is now more dangerous could be met either by having category 2(i) for the hard drugs and 2(ii) for drugs like cannabis.

The experts have suggested an educational programme to keep young people off cannabis. Exhortation has not worked before. Arguably we need the threat of longer imprisonment, perhaps 3 years?