Press reports today suggest that the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs will recommend to ministers that cannabis should remain a Class C drug. Ironically this comes just two days after Gordon Brown strongly indicated in his monthly press conference that he backed reclassifying it into the more serious Class B category. Given Brown asked the council to review the classification of cannabis - which Labour downgraded to Class C in 2004 - this poses an acute dilemma for him: whether to play politics or listen to expert advice.

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