Sting campaigns for cannabis

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Sting campaigns for cannabis

19/12/2005 - 14:40:09

Rocker Sting is campaigning to stop British prime minister Tony Blair from upgrading the legal categorisation of cannabis from a class C to class B drug.

The Roxanne hitmaker fears the political leader is planning a high-profile policy u-turn which will see him vow to tackle drug use head-on and reclassify the drug, despite officially downgrading it from class B to its current status in January.

Sting, 54, has added his signature to a letter for Blair alongside those of actress Jean Simmons and former Spandau Ballet star Gary Kemp, insisting the reclassification has been a success, saving up to 200,000 hours of police time.

The letter reads: 'Such a move would simply add to public confusion, inconsistency and the waste of police resources, without delivering any health or social benefits.'

You know you haven't had enough coffee when you think that headline reads 'Sting campaigns for cannibals'.