CAMPAIGNER TAKES CANNABIS
FIGHT TO HOME SECRETARY
Source: [UK] Braintree Witham Weekly News
Pub Date: 22 January, 2004
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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 Cannabis: 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's 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 the Government is just paying lip service to this issue
without talking to the
people who really know about the subject."