DRUGS POLICY DISCUSSED AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL
Source; Essex Chronicle Gazette
Date: 9 March 2006
Web: http://www.thisisessex.co.uk
Cited: Don Barnard, Legalise Cannabis Alliance http://www.lca-uk.org/
Web: http://www.thisisessex.com
A Witham man has led a delegation from the
Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA) to meet Home Secretary Charles Clarke to talk
about drugs policy.
Don Barnard, 64, has been battling for 14 years to arrange a meeting with a
Home Secretary in an attempt to get input into a committee considering government
drugs policy. Mr Barnard said the alliance was formed in 1999 to bring the issues
into mainstream politics.
"The door has been opened," he said.
"I believe at the end of the day we will have a valuable input into how
people address the presence of cannabis in society."
He said that the Government, which has classified Cannabis as class C, continued
to insist that the drug would not be legalised, which the alliance want.