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By Tim Castle Reuters - 1 hour 59 minutes agoLONDON (Reuters) - Home Secretary Jacqui Smith admitted on Thursday she smoked cannabis while at university, a day after it was announced that penalties for its use could be tightened.

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"I smoked cannabis a few times, I think it was wrong," she told Sky News. Smith, 45, attended Hertford College, Oxford and was a teacher before entering parliament in 1997.

She said she had not taken any other drugs and did not think her actions back in the 1980s compromised her position.

"I think as Home Secretary what people would be bothered about is whether or not there are more people able to get (drug) treatment, whether or not the sort of crime linked to drugs is coming down," Smith said.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown had not questioned her about drug-taking when he appointed her last month, she added.

She made the admission in reply to a question in a GMTV interview earlier on Thursday.

"The Prime Minister did not ask me but I was asked this morning and I answered the question," she said.

On Wednesday, Brown said Smith would be consulting on whether cannabis should be reclassified from Class C to a Class B drug because of the dangers associated with stronger strains.

"We now know a lot more about the potential damage that cannabis can do, particularly that it leads to mental health problems, that it's becoming stronger," Smith told BBC television.

She was speaking ahead of the publication of annual crime figures and as she prepared to unveil the government's new crime strategy.

"What I will be focusing on today is not what I did 25 years ago, but what I can do in the future to make our communities safer ... to feel more confident about where they are living," she said.

She defended the government's crime policies against criticism by a committee of MPs which said the billions of extra pounds spent on the police since Labour came to power 10 years ago has made no clear impact on crime.

"The police play an absolutely crucial role ... but there are other things as well that we need to do to tackle crime and we will be looking at a whole range of those today," she said.

The Home Affairs Select Committee said it was "puzzling" that falls in crime since 1997 took place before the government significantly boosted police budgets.

The MPs said they would have expected the extra investment in the police service to have had a measurable impact.

"We know the police have had a major increase in funding over the last decade but it is much more difficult to tell what they have done with it," said David Winnick, acting chairman of the committee.

"Overall it doesn't seem to have been directly responsible for the reduction in crime or any increase in convictions."

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Cannabis skal omklassificeres fra c til b drug- hvis den erfarne ryger, Frk. Smith, mener det er fortjent- man ved nu meget mere om cannabis skadelighed!!! Heldigvis.

Jeg kan ikke forstå hvad der får dem til at gå op i hvad folk har gjort for over tyve år siden, det er da mere nærliggende at beskæftige sig med hvad de foretager sig i nutiden. Det var det samme crap da Bill Clinton indrømmede at han engang havde taget et par hvæs af en joint, og det er jeg glad for han gjorde, for ellers havde vi ikke kendt til den underholdende sætning "...but I didn't inhale".
Hvis et par joints i universitetstiden er nok til at kompromittere hendes stilling, falder det mig meget naturligt at Lene E. bør gå af. Hun har kørt en enlig mor ned!!

Hvad så med Louise Frevert? Hun burde stoppe som politiker, øjeblikkeligt!

Men ja, jeg kan virkelig ikke se hvorfor folk går op i sådan noget. Så længe det er så mange år tilbage, så burde det virkelig ikke skabe så meget ramaskrig som det gør.

Yup, men det har intet med hendes fortid at gøre