Results 1–20 of 27 for cannabis speaker:Mr Nick Hawkins

Crime (18 Oct 2004)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...20,000 a year to stay out of trouble', urges Minister. So, who says crime doesn't pay"; "Crime shambles. Offences up"; "Plunging prices of drugs on the street"; "Cut-price drugs hit the streets"; "Cannabis explosion—when police tried going soft on the drug its use tripled. That same approach is about to become national policy"; "Cannabis laws in shambles"; "Real offenders are not paying...

Anti-social Behaviour Bill: Clause 1 — Closure Notice (24 Jun 2003)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...things now that she has been elevated to her new position. On this group of amendments, she was helpful to the case that I am seeking to put, because she pointed out that people who have taken cannabis can often behave in a very silly way. That supports my point that the extra powers would be useful in seeking to deal with antisocial behaviour. The Liberal Democrats were, as usual, all...

Public Bill Committee: Anti-social Behaviour Bill: Clause 1 - Closure notice ( 6 May 2003)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...should be based on the premise that any drug use can be harmful and should be discouraged. Our attention was drawn to two leaflets. The first was produced by DrugScope and entitled What and why?: Cannabis . . . When we asked for further clarification of their philosophy, we were told that DrugScope 'as an organisation prides itself on providing balanced, accurate drug information to...

Public Bill Committee: Anti-social Behaviour Bill: Clause 1 - Closure notice ( 6 May 2003)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...available. They need not be used very often. Finally, I should like to correct a particularly unwise statement made, sadly, by the hon. Member for Ludlow. He said that people who are taking only cannabis are simply quiescent and soporific. If he looks at the medical evidence that has been highlighted in recent weeks, he will see that the propensity to suffer from schizophrenia is...

Public Bill Committee: Anti-social Behaviour Bill: Clause 1 - Closure notice ( 6 May 2003)

Mr Nick Hawkins: On what basis does the hon. Gentleman make that statement? If he had spent time in the criminal courts, he would come have come across situations in which premises were used both for dealing cannabis—about to change from class B to class C—and for prostitution.

Public Bill Committee: Anti-social Behaviour Bill: Clause 1 - Closure notice ( 6 May 2003)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...other occasions that the Government are sending the wrong signals to young people on the subject of drugs. Many surveys in the past year or so of teenagers at school show that they all think that cannabis has been legalised. The Home Secretary and the Minister may protest that it has not been legalised, but when considering the effect of drugs on young people, the perception of the law,...

Prevention of Driving Under the Influence of Drugs (Road Traffic Amendment) (12 Mar 2003)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...generation is frequent and increasing. Talking to young people at secondary school or in their late teens, one finds that they have been persuaded by the media that the Government have legalised cannabis already. They are stunned when they are told that cannabis is not legal. Unfortunately, the Government have given out all the wrong signals on the matter. The BMA reports that nearly half...

Drugs Policy (13 Jan 2003)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...described. The hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) spoke, as he has done repeatedly, about the views of DrugScope—a rather discredited charitable organisation—on cannabis. The Minister said that he always took notice of DrugScope. Perhaps, in the light of the leaflets described by my hon. Friend the Member for Upminster, he should not take so much notice of...

Estimates Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Vote on Account: 2003–04 — Government Drugs Policy ( 5 Dec 2002)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...or two members of his party might not share his view. Would they include, perhaps, Lord Alton of Liverpool, who recently chaired a superb conference in the House of Lords at which my views about cannabis, which are shared by leading members of the National Drug Prevention Alliance, were advanced? It was attended by some of the most authoritative speakers from Sweden, who explained how they...

Estimates Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Vote on Account: 2003–04 — Government Drugs Policy ( 5 Dec 2002)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...I do not agree with him. The signals that we send to young people are important. I have just talked about those who suffer death or serious injury as a result of drug induced driving. He says that cannabis has killed no one, but there are many cases in which the person responsible for a fatal accident committed the driving offence as a result of the use of cannabis alone.

Estimates Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Vote on Account: 2003–04 — Government Drugs Policy ( 5 Dec 2002)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...'s signals. The Minister will be aware of the media surveys that show that almost every young person who does not follow politics or take note of the details of what we say in the House thinks that cannabis is legal. They have seen the general message. The figures from the unit confirm a huge jump in the use of cannabis. The number of boys in their early teens who smoke cannabis has...

Estimates Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Vote on Account: 2003–04 — Government Drugs Policy ( 5 Dec 2002)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...you in the Chair what the position was before I rose. As I have said, nearly 16,000 pupils were asked to complete questionnaires at 334 schools. The responses showed a similar boom in girls using cannabis. In 1999, 18 per cent. of girls aged 14 and 15 had smoked cannabis. However, last year the figure was 25 per cent. The survey covered 15,881 pupils aged between 10 and 15. The findings...

Estimates Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Vote on Account: 2003–04 — Government Drugs Policy ( 5 Dec 2002)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...talks about science, and I shall quote once again from one of the reports on the recent figures in the recent survey. It states: XThe terrible irony is that all the while the deceptive message that cannabis is safe has been taking hold among school children because of the misguided approach of Whitehall"— that is a reference to Labour Ministers— Xand the police. The evidence points...

Written Answers — Home Department: Cannabis (16 Jul 2002)

Mr Nick Hawkins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the effects on community safety and overall policing of the Lambeth cannabis relaxation pilot project; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Home Department: Class A Drugs ( 3 Apr 2002)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...of State for the Home Department what recent analysis his Department has made of the number of offenders whose offences were related to their addiction to Class A drugs who had previously taken cannabis.

Drugs Strategy ( 9 Nov 2001)

Mr Nick Hawkins: How does it assist the Home Secretary's message if law-abiding members of the public see that, under his proposals, large-scale suppliers of cannabis may face only 12 months in custody, instead of eight years, as at present?

Drugs Strategy ( 9 Nov 2001)

Mr Nick Hawkins: For a certain proportion of young people, is not the feeling of doing something dangerous and illegal part of the appeal? Might not the decriminalisation of cannabis tempt more people to go straight to hard drugs in order to have the same feeling?

Drugs Strategy ( 9 Nov 2001)

Mr Nick Hawkins: I understand that the hon. Gentleman is considering the issues seriously. How does he respond to the Government's drugs tsar, who said: "The pro-legalisers who have said that cannabis isn't a gateway drug will have to look at this hard and long. I can say now cannabis is a gateway drug. I have not found any evidence anywhere that cannabis is not harmful, is not carcinogenic, or that its usage...

Drugs Strategy ( 9 Nov 2001)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...Secretary is now considering, we must look carefully at the unanswered questions. One of those, which none of the media commentators has focused on, is the fact that the simple reclassification of cannabis would not merely completely alter the sentences of, and the police response to, those found in possession of it; it would have a much more significant effect on the sentencing powers of...

Drugs Strategy ( 9 Nov 2001)

Mr Nick Hawkins: ...my point. The practical effect of a reclassification would be to reduce the maximum sentence dramatically. It is most likely that, in return for a guilty plea, even the largest-scale suppliers of cannabis would face sentences of only two years' imprisonment, of which they might serve one year or even less. That would be a huge change, I do not think that there is much difference of view...


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