Fantastic post by Cefyn Jones on Linked In
It’s a great read
Scroll to page three first for the question, and then back to page one for the response.
The Home Office have a lot of files inside of a one month period that may or may not relate to a 22-point plan, submitted by Prof. Geoffrey Guy in January 1998 to regulate and control cannabis in the UK.
But they can neither confirm or deny, without stating that they can neither confirm nor deny, only that they can’t confirm, whether a 22-point plan exists because they don’t have datasets to confirm where such an important file might be, and because we’re talking paper records, Section 16 applies.
593 files in total…
Between 26/01/1998 to 26/02/1998 there were 19 working days.
That leads to an average of 31.2 files a day of conversations between Prof. Guy and Alan MacFarlane, the Chief Inspector of the Home Office Drugs Inspectorate Department, regarding that 22-point plan.
If we were to assume a standard working day, that’s 3.9 files per hour.
If every single point was negotiated equally, that would be 27.8 files for each.
And whilst the Home Office can’t confirm that the document I’m looking for exists, Prof. Guy already has, specifically in a 2010 document called ‘The Medicinalization of Cannabis’ (P. 37, link in comment section).
It was recently determined by The Hemp Hound Agency through FOI that the Home Office manage all petitions regarding cannabis, which all get rejected with a response that is copy-and-paste-esque.
I believe dismissals of those petitions would have been specified in the 22-point plan, at least to the point of the Home Office managing the public interest on cannabis, and by managing, I mean dismissing any potential conversation about cannabis.
I think it goes beyond the public interest as well, and extends to protecting any monopoly that emerged off the back of that 22-point plant, hence why whole-plant CBD products weren’t novel in 2017, and then were in 2019, three months after the FSA secretly submitted an Article 4 submission to the EU defining CBD as a novel food, and one month before the legalisation of medicinal cannabis in the UK after a politically managed public campaign which focused heavily on CBD.
I also believe that the plan will cover government supply lines as shown in 2004, 2008, 2014 and 2018 when the Home Office provided GWP with seized cannabis samples for analysis…
Were they supplied with just that which was reported on? Who knows?
What I can say is this though, the more that’s discussed, the more refined the plan, and according to Prof. Guy’s book, ‘Cannabis, A Worthwhile Medicine’, he negotiated that plan for 4 months, right up to the point of the press release in June 1998 that GW had been awarded a growing license.
The FOI only covers one month, specifically 19 working days.
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