Statistics which showed that children as young as nine were receiving treatment prompted calls from politicians and campaigners for a radical rethink of the UK's drugs policy.

In 2002, David Blunkett, the then home secretary, announced that cannabis would be reclassified from a Class B to a Class C drug.

That year, 198 under-16s were admitted to Scottish treatment programmes in connection with cannabis use.

The latest figures have revealed that by 2004, the year in which the law downgrading the drug was passed, the number of children treated for cannabis use almost doubled to 382.

The following year 376 child cannabis users entered rehab schemes.

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