With MPs set to debate removing the ban,Damien Gayle looks at how the public’s view of cannabis has evolved
When the first controls on cannabis were introduced in the UK, few people had ever heard of it. Occasionally a foreign visitor would be arrested with cannabis – but only because it was mistaken for the much more notorious opium.
Apart from the odd tabloid scare, and few saw cannabis as a serious threat. The Home Office resisted calls to ban it,while one government official dismissed it as a curiosity, “occasionally taken as an experiment by persons interested in oriental vices”.
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Source: theguardian.com