Campaigner Takes
Cannabis Fight to Home Secretary
Source:
Braintree and Witham Times [UK]
Pub Date:
Thursday 15 January 2004
Subj: Campaigner
Takes Cannabis Fight to Home Secretary
Contact:
bwtpost@nqe.com
Website:
www.thisisessex.co.uk
CAMPAIGNER TAKES
CANNABIS FIGHT TO HOME SECRETARY
A CAMPAIGNER for
the legalisation of cannabis is taking his fight to the Home Secretary.
Don Barnard,
campaigner for the Legalise Cannabis Alliance in Braintree, has helped produce a document which challenges
the Government over its drug policy.
And he is hoping
the document, which has also been produced in Braille format, will be presented
to Home secretary David Blunkett
The campaigner
has contacted Braintree MP Alan Hurst with the document.
Although Mr
Hurst says he does not support the campaign to legalise cannabis, he has
written to the Home Secretary to try and arrange a meeting so he can receive
the document.
The document is
called Challenging the Criminal Justice System, and is jointly written by Mr
Barnard and Alun Buffry. In it the Legalise Cannabis Alliance calls for a
public debate about the drug with consultation between cannabis users as well
as doctors, social workers and professional drug workers. The Alliance wants the drug to be legalised
and for places to be set up where the drug use is permitted.
Mr Barnard
said:" We are concerned that David Blunkett has not been given all the
facts about cannabis.
"Hopefully we can have a real debate, because I feel at the
moment they government is just paying lip service to the issue without talking
to the people who really know about the subject."