LAW CHANGE COULD
HELP FUND EDUCATION
Source: Evening
News, Norwich, UK
Pub Date: Monday
13 October 2003
Pub LTE: Law
change could help fund education
Author: Alun
Buffry, Legalise Cannabis Alliance http://www.lca-uk.org/
Web: http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/
Comment: Charles
Clarke is Labour MP for Norwich South, seat contested by LCA in 2001 General
Election
LAW CHANGE COULD
HELP FUND EDUCATION
In his attempt
to justify the Government's U-turn on university students "top-up"
fees, Charles Clarke said in an interview in Bournemouth that he considered it
unfair that lorry drivers should have to pay to produce barristers, and that
graduates would in the future earn enough to repay their education-incurred
debts.
I wonder whether
Mr Clarke and his colleagues would now consider making an equivalent donation
back into the public purse that provided grants for their own university
education.
Members of Parliament
also earn far more than lorry drivers!
Students are
already leaving college with debts of well over £10,000 (UKP). What a gift from the country that one day
they may participate in running?
I believe that
education should be provided free to everyone.
If they earn more later, they will pay more tax.
To those who
would ask where the money to provide free education would come from, the
answer, to me and many others, is painstakingly obvious.
Legalisation of
cannabis which would bring separation from crime and hard drugs, taxation on profits - saving billions
annually presently spent arresting and punishing victimless cannabis
users; less alienation of such a huge proportion
of people that the present regime criminalise; greater use of cheaper natural
hemp resources for paper, fuel and energy; increase in employment and general
improvement in the environment and public health.
Alun Buffry
Legalise Cannabis Alliance
Norwich