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  Cannabis reclassification
  
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  <p>Those who voted Aye passed the draft Statutory Instrument <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2003/20033201.htm">Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Modification) (No. 2) Order 2003</a>, which reclassified Cannabis from a class B to a class C drug.  (<a href="http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/drugs/drugs-law/Class-a-b-c/?view=Standard">Punishment</a> and police procedure relating to possession of class C drugs is less severe than for class B.)</p>
  
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