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UK: Pro-cannabis campaigner's plea on report

Mid Essex Gazette

Friday 11 Sep 1998

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Pro-cannabis campaigner from Braintree has highlighted research collated
by a European health body claiming that the drug is harmless.

Don Barnard, 55, of Aetheric Road, has now written to the chairman of
the district's Drug Reference Group asking it to verify or denounce the
report's conclusions.

Mr Barnard, a representative of the Campaign to Legalise Cannabis
International, has also forwarded a summary of the report to Home
secretary Jack Straw and drugs czar Keith Hellawell asking for their
responses.

The Family Council on drug Awareness claimed cannabis was benign and
non-toxic, did not induce dependence or lead to harder drugs and its
prohibition was unjustified.

Braintree district Drug Reference Group chairman Ashley Bartlett said he
would pass on the report's conclusions to its parent body, the Essex
Drug Action Team, and the Home Office. "There is conflicting evidence,
but the majority of scientific studies say detrimental effects outweigh
the positive ones."

 

 

 

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