{"id":44,"date":"2003-12-28T23:24:27","date_gmt":"2003-12-28T23:24:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-28T23:24:27","modified_gmt":"2003-12-28T23:24:27","slug":"cannabis-downgraded-but-dont-believe-what-the-papers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis downgraded &#8211; but don&#8217;t believe what the papers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#000000><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Cannabis becomes a Class C drug on 29 Jan 2004, but becomes an &#8220;arrestable offence&#8221; under the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk\/acts\/acts2003\/20030044.htm\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Criminal Justice Act<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">, and the maximum penalty for the possession&nbsp;will go down from 5 years to 2 years imprisonment.&nbsp; <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=#000000>There will be a &#8220;presumption against arrest&#8221; for possession&nbsp;and for using small amounts of cannabis.&nbsp;Cannabis will still be confiscated, offender&#8217;s&nbsp;details recorded and a warning given.&nbsp;What happens in practice&nbsp;is at the police officer&#8217;s discretion so there may be&nbsp;no change from the current&nbsp;enforcement style, and the power of arrest could be still be used on every occasion if the police&nbsp;so desire.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=#000000>Cannabis is still 100% illegal.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannabis becomes a Class C drug on 29 Jan 2004, but becomes an &#8220;arrestable offence&#8221; under the Criminal Justice Act, and the maximum penalty for the possession&nbsp;will go down from 5 years to 2 years imprisonment.&nbsp; There will be a &#8220;presumption against arrest&#8221; for possession&nbsp;and for using small amounts of cannabis.&nbsp;Cannabis will still be confiscated, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}