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Police vow to close Amsterdam soft drug cafe

Stockport Express

Wednesday 05 Sep 2001

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POLICE in Stockport have vowed to shut down an Amsterdam-
style cannabis cafe set to open in a secret location thought
to be near the town centre.

Colin Davies, the Stockport man infamous for presenting the
Queen with a bouquet of marijuana plants, says he will open
the controversial cafe in Stockport on September 15.

The Brinnington man, who has campaigned for the legalisation
of cannabis to help people with illnesses such as multiple
sclerosis, claims he is opening the Dutch Experience cafe for
patients who find the illegal drug eases their symptoms.

In Amsterdam people can walk into this type of cafe and buy
and smoke cannabis on the premises.

But he says supplies for medical users will be subsidised
with revenue from people visiting the cafe for "social" use.

He presented the Queen with a bunch of marijuana plants as
she toured the new Lowry Centre in Salford Quays.

Mr Davies said the reason he wanted to open the cafe was the
amount of letters he was inundated with from sufferers.

He said: "The proof is in the patients, and the good that is
being done for them. It is the patients who come first.

"Imagine if you are in a wheelchair, how do you get hold of
some good quality medicine?

"The plan is to bring a lot of patients together to meet and
discuss their personal problems with each other, and support
each other."

Mr Davies now says he has supporters coming to the opening
of the Dutch Experience from as far away as America and Holland.

And he wants patients to come together to cut a ceremonial
ribbon to open the cafe.

But this week Superintendent Ian McLoughlin, from Stockport
Police, said: "The law in respect of a Class C drug is very
clear.

"If this happens in Stockport we will monitor the situation
but it is the law of the land and we will uphold this."

 

 

 

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