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The Times - It's a blustery Saturday morning and a group of strangers - 14 women and one man - are discussing their drinking habits in a West London hotel. It's not an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, but everyone at this one-day workshop, run by the clinical hypnotherapist Georgia Foster, is concerned about how much they are drinking. 

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is expected to reclassify cannabis as a Class B drug - against the advice of officials.

Rugby House explain why they decided to go it alone and cultivate their own specialist training unit, in an article in Social Care London magazine.

The Government's official advisory body on drugs policy believes cannabis should remain a Class C drug.

Gordon Brown is preparing to override the views of his own expert advisers and tighten the law on cannabis.

The study of nearly 10,000 teenagers in the North West between 15- and 16-year-olds also indicates there is a growing problem with binge-drinking; that is five or more drinks in one session. 

Chancellor Alistair Darling announced on Wednesday that alcohol duty will increase by 6 percent above the inflation rate with hefty rises in beer, wine and spirits coming in at midnight on Sunday.