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UK: Tories Slam Lib Dems' Call for Cannabis cafes

Macer Hall

The Express

Friday 30 Apr 2010

CAFES for pot smokers could be legalised under secret Lib Dem plans, it emerged yesterday. A leaked policy document from Nick Clegg's party calls for the decriminalisation of the possession of cannabis, "social supply" of the drug to adults and cultivation of plants for personal use.

The document follows an internal party vote that commits the Lib Dems to making it "no longer a crime for the occupier or manager of premises to permit someone to use cannabis on those premises".

The party's constitution binds its leaders – if they win power – to implement votes carried at annual conferences.

The Tories, who unearthed the document, said the policy would go further than the Amsterdam model of turning a blind eye to "cannabis coffee shops". Cafe owners could allow customers to smoke the drug outside or buy "hash brownies" and vaporised cannabis.

Tory Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: “"ib Dem policy on drugs is deeply worrying. It's quite clear they want to be soft on crime and to sign up to more and more powers from Brussels. I have spoken to countless people whose lives have been wrecked by hard drugs."

Nick Clegg has also come under fire for suggesting that heroin and other drugs should made legally available.

The Lib Dem leader claimed that criminalising drug use was restricting "individual freedom and civil liberties" – and argued that drug offences should not lead to jail.

While serving as an MEP, he complained it was unfair that drug users were being pushed to the fringes of society. He said heroin should be made available to addicts under medical supervision.

He signed a motion calling on EU states "to take measures to make the fight against organised crime and trafficking in narcotics and psychotropic substances more effective by establishing a system of legal control and regulation of production, sale and use of currently illegal substances".

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/172281/Tories-slam-Lib-Dems-call-for-cannabis-cafes/

 

 

 

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