Claim: UK authorities release confiscated cannabis after boy hospitalized.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Cannabis in the United Kingdom
text: law. This led to increased public outcry, particularly in the case of Billy Caldwell who was hospitalised with life-threatening seizures after his medication was confiscated by authorities. On 20 June 2018, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced his support for the medical use of cannabis and that a review would be undertaken to study changes to the law. On 26 July 2018, Home Secretary Sajid Javid announced that cannabis products would be made legal for patients with an "exceptional clinical need", and that cannabis would be moved from a Schedule I classification to Schedule 2. On 11 October the new provisions

title: Cannabis classification in the United Kingdom
text: reclassification of cannabis to class C had the desired effect, with arrests for cannabis possession falling by one third in the first year following, saving an estimated 199,000 police hours. Early in January 2006 Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, said that on the basis of advice from the Advisory Council, a decision was made not to return cannabis to class B. However, during Prime Minister's Questions on 18 July 2007, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, was reviewing again whether to return cannabis to class B status. On 7 May 2008, Smith confirmed that cannabis

title: Cannabis classification in the United Kingdom
text: July 2018. The first emergency licence for cannabis oil was granted on 18 June 2018. The concession came after an epileptic child became severely ill after having his cannabis confiscated. Cannabis classification in the United Kingdom Cannabis classification in the United Kingdom refers to the class of drugs, as determined by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, that cannabis is placed in. Between 1928 and 2004 and since 2009, it has been classified as a class B drug. From 2004 to 2009, it was in class C (less harmful). As Home Secretary in Tony Blair's Labour government, David Blunkett announced

title: Brixton
text: reclassified in Britain from a class B down to a class C drug in early 2004. In January 2009 the UK government reclassified cannabis back to a class B drug. In 2001 Brixton became subject of newspaper headlines due to the implementation of a pilot cannabis programme, also known as the "softly softly" approach, initiated by Brian Paddick, then Police Commander for the London Borough of Lambeth. Police officers were instructed not to arrest or charge people who were found to be in possession of cannabis. They were instead to issue on-the-spot warnings and confiscate the drugs. Although Paddick is

title: Conscription in South Korea
text: He was subsequently transferred to a different police division to await notice of prosecution, and was suspended from police duty pending verdict on his case. A few days after the announcement, T.O.P was found unconscious in police barracks due to a suspected anti-anxiety medicine overdose of prescribed benzodiazepine, and was hospitalized. On June 8, T.O.P's mother confirmed that her son had opened his eyes and was recovering. On June 29, T.O.P faced his first trial for the marijuana usage charges at the Seoul Central District Court. He pleaded guilty to the charges against him and admitted that he did smoke

title: Cannabis in the United Kingdom
text: convicted at a disproportional rate to white people. Specifically black and Asian people were convicted of cannabis possession at 11.8 and 2.4 times the rate of white people, despite lower self-reported use in these communities. Medical use of cannabis was legalised in the UK on 1 November 2018. after the cases of two epileptic children who benefited from using cannabis brought increased public attention to the issue. The children (Billy Caldwell, 12, and Alfie Dingley, 6) both experienced significant improvement in their conditions after they began using cannabis – but were initially not allowed to continue their treatment under UK

title: King's Ely
text: from a hotel in Essex three days later; it is thought the boy was about to be drowned in the River Thames, as a 20 ft length of cable, ropes ties, handcuffs and a 56 lb weight were found in the gang's vehicle. The parents of the boy received mobile phone calls demanding £250,000, which the police were able to trace. The men were found guilty of false imprisonment and blackmail and sentenced to custodial terms of 11–12 years. In 2006, five pupils were expelled, and three were suspended for smoking cannabis on school premises. The parents of one student

title: Kid Cannabis
text: prison for 12 years. He was released early and is currently living in Coeur d’Alene. Some scenes were shot in a real-life marijuana-growing facility in Canada, to which the crew was driven in a van with blacked-out windows. On October 5, 2014 rapper Andrew Canton released a music video of the movie on his YouTube page. The film holds a 71% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 7 reviews. It also has a rating of 54 on Metacritic, indicating "average or mixed reviews." Box Office Mojo lists total domestic theater sales, in one theater as $5,565. Kid Cannabis Kid Cannabis

title: Lenzie Academy
text: It followed a string of other drug-related incidents. In 1994, a 16-year-old was expelled for drug dealing, then re-admitted. Also that year, four pupils were suspended over claims of drug taking, and a 15-year-old boy was arrested outside school and charged with possessing cannabis." Eight pupils who smoked cannabis on a school trip to Alton Towers were suspended for a fortnight following a disciplinary hearing at the school in June 1998. The school has also received continuing attention for problems with gangs/bullying as well as knife crime. In 2016 a boy of 14 was reported to the police after a

title: Sajid Javid
text: and the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Javid announced medicinal cannabis will be available for prescription on the NHS. The mother of an epileptic boy who led the campaign to get the law changed commended Javid and said,"the compassion and speed that the Home Secretary has moved with is just incredible". Javid, writing in The Times, has insisted prescribing medicinal cannabis is not a step towards legalisation for recreational use. The Jewish Chronicle exclusively revealed Javid was taking steps to ban Hezbollah. The military wing of Hezbollah has been banned in the UK since 2008, but the political

title: Shona Banda
text: she suffered from exhaustion and walked with a cane, but found that cannabis alleviated her symptoms. In early 2015, her fifth-grade son advocated for the utility of medical cannabis during a drug education presentation at school, and admitted his mother's use. The school contacted authorities, and on 24 March Banda was met outside her home by local police officers and child social workers who questioned her, and later returned with a warrant. They searched Banda's home, finding two ounces of cannabis oil and drug paraphernalia, arrested Banda, and seized her child. In an affidavit, officers stated that they seized "over

title: Cannabis in the United Kingdom
text: police to focus on harder drugs and violent crime. In May 2008, under the leadership of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, it was announced that cannabis would be moved back to Schedule B, against the recommendations of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. In the survey-year ending March 2014, possession of cannabis offences accounted for 67% of all police recorded drug offences in the UK. In 2015, County Durham police announced that they will no longer be targeting people who grow cannabis for personal consumption unless they are being "blatant". Derbyshire, Dorset and Surrey police announced that they will

title: Ashya King case
text: hospital for urgent treatment. They were held in prison for more than 24 hours and released when the request to extradite them to the United Kingdom was withdrawn. The issues about treating the boy were brought to the High Court to be resolved, and on 5 September 2014, the court ruled that King could receive proton therapy in Prague. Doctors from Southampton General Hospital said the treatment would have the same side effects as conventional radiotherapy. On 9 September, King arrived at the Proton Therapy Center in Prague, where he underwent proton beam therapy. In March 2015, Brett King said

title: Jamie Waylett
text: using cocaine in October 2006. On 14 October 2011, Waylett was arrested for his participation in the 2011 England riots. The Metropolitan Police charged him with "violent disorder, having an article with intent to destroy or damage property, and receiving stolen goods". He was specifically accused of possessing a Molotov cocktail while looting a chemist in Chalk Farm, London. He was also charged with growing cannabis after police found fifteen plants during a search of his home. On 20 March 2012, he was sentenced to two years in prison for taking part in the riots. Jamie Waylett Jamie Michael Colin

title: David Huck
text: Exeter. The UK Customs undercover team, delivered cannabis owned by Customs, to a beach in Cornwall where they were met by a "shore party" who had been under surveillance by Officers dug in on the hillside . Further arrests were made assisted by a Devon And Cornwall Police armed team. After a six-week Crown Court trial at Exeter in front of Judge Sean Overend during which the defence team tried to maintain that the drugs lost in Bisacy were Henna not Cannabis, Huck was found Guilty on attempting to import Illegal substances, and possession of a class B drug With

title: Adam Deacon
text: disorder and had been self-medicating using skunk cannabis, banned Deacon from contacting Clarke again. On 7 April 2016 he was arrested after police were called to reports of a man reportedly armed with a machete style knife and threatening members of the public in London. He was unable to attend a hearing in March due to being "in hospital for treatment for underlying mental health issues". On 7 April the jury delivered two not-guilty verdicts for affray and possessing an offensive weapon accepting Deacon was mentally ill and not criminally responsible for his actions. Deacon has since been outspoken about

title: Cannabis in the United Kingdom
text: frequented by Negro theatrical performers". This perception was strained by a 1950 police raid on Club Eleven in Soho which recovered cannabis and cocaine, and led to the arrest of several young white British men. With the changing youth and drug cultures globally, cannabis arrests increased dramatically in the UK: "from 235 in 1960 to 4,683 by the end of the decade, principally involving white middle class youths with no previous convictions". By 1973, marijuana possession convictions in the UK had reached 11,111 annually. With the passage of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, cannabis was listed as a "Class

title: Paul McCartney
text: g) of cannabis in his luggage. They arrested McCartney and brought him to a local jail while the Japanese government decided what to do. After ten days, they released and deported him without charge. In 1984, while McCartney was on holiday in Barbados, authorities arrested him for possession of marijuana and fined him $200. Upon his return to England, he stated: "cannabis is ... less harmful than rum punch, whiskey, nicotine and glue, all of which are perfectly legal ... I don't think ... I was doing anyone any harm whatsoever." In 1997, he spoke out in support of decriminalisation

title: The Independent
text: for the decriminalisation of cannabis. Ten years later, it reversed itself, claiming that the cannabis strain "skunk" "smoked by the majority of young Britons" in 2007 had become "25 times stronger than resin sold a decade ago". In addition, "The Independent" has highlighted what it refers to as "war crimes" being committed by pro-government forces in the Darfur region of Sudan. Originally, it avoided royal stories, Whittam Smith later saying he thought the British press was "unduly besotted" with the Royal Family and that a newspaper could "manage without" stories about the monarchy. In 2007, Alan Rusbridger, editor of "The

title: Anthony Joshua
text: police for speeding in Colindale, North London. He was found with eight ounces of herbal cannabis hidden in a sports bag in his Mercedes-Benz. He was charged with possession with intent to supply a class B drug, an offence that carries a maximum 14-year sentence. Joshua was suspended from GB boxing squad and was sentenced to a 12-month community order and 100 hours' unpaid work after pleading guilty at crown court. In November 2016, Joshua announced he would be investing in a members-only fitness gym, BXR. Joshua teamed up with the founders of BXR via his physio and medical contacts