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Youth crime

Hugh Robertson

Letters, Electronic Telegraph

Tuesday 18 Jan 2000

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SIR - Given that two out of the three ministers in charge of drugs policy have admitted smoking cannabis - Mo Mowlam on Sunday and Charles Clarke in 1997, how can they justify the Government's policy of criminalising other people who follow in their shoes? [Children of Sixties reluctant to make the cannabis confession, 17 January 2000] The law does not differentiate between first-time and long-term use. If either minister had been arrested in their youth, they may well have been jailed and would almost certainly not be in the position they are now.

I do not believe that either of them would have deserved a criminal record, and neither do the 80,000 people arrested each year in the UK for exactly the same 'criminal' activity - possession of cannabis.

Hugh Robertson
The Legalise Cannabis Alliance

 

 

 

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