Has legalization of marijuana been seriously discussed in the UK? Reason I ask is because

[raccoon]

on Masterpiece Theater "Inspector Lewis" Sun. night, the cops busted somebody growing a lot of it.

They don't have a so-called "war on drugs" there, do they?

[T_i_B]

1. It's not top of the political agenda right now

The top political issue over here at the moment is the Olympics and inparticular the spectacular failure of security contractor G4S in relation to this event.

Other big issues include reforming the House of Lords, public spending cuts, endless tinkering with education and the current governments attempts to destroy the NHS.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. There was a period when it was downgraded to non-arrestable for posession of small amounts

There's been a bit of a fight, in the last few years, about whether politicians listen to their scientific advisers, or just do what they think is the politically safe thing to do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_classification_in_the_United_Kingdom

It was moved from Class B to Class C (which means that small amounts would just be confiscated) under the Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett (a bit of a surprise, since he was fairly authoritarian on most things, but he seemed to be listening to professional advice that the higher classification made things worse). But a few years later, Labour went back on this, against the advice of their scientific advisers - the leader of the board, Prof. Nutt, publicly criticised this, and was sacked.

[Egalitarian Thug]

3. It's our war, but we've effectively forced it onto most of the world. n/t