I believe this response is to recent BBC classification article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...0006.stm#drugs

spliffonshik Reviewed by spliffonshik on . UK: Drugs and prohibition Certain areas of human conduct lend themselves so readily to bad science that you have to wonder if there is a pattern emerging. Last week the parliamentary science and technology committee looked into the ABC classification of illegal drugs, and found it was rubbish. This is not an article about that report, but it is a good place to start: drugs, they found, are supposed to be ranked by harm, in classes A, B, and C, but they're not; and the ranking is supposed to act as a Rating: 5