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UK: Priest rejects calls for cannabis to be decriminalised
The Universe Catholic Weekly Thursday 24 Nov 2011 Fr Jim McCartney of T.H.O.M.A.S. (Those on the Margins of Society) suggested instead that there needed to be safeguards brought in for some of the legalised drugs, like alcohol, which cause damage to society. Fr McCartney was reacting to comments from former MI5 chief Baroness Manningham-Buller who called on the Government to consider decriminalising cannabis. The crossbench peer said that only by regulating the sale of cannabis could its psychotic effects be controlled. Baroness Manningham-Buller said that regulating cannabis would mean that society focused on the health aspects of drug use rather than the criminalisation of drug users. In a speech to the all-party parliamentary drugs group, she said the "war on drugs" had been "fruitless" and yet talk of any change was "taboo". She joined a growing list of high profile figures including Dame Judi Dench, Sting, Sir Richard Branson and former senior police officers who have urged the case for legalising some drugs. But Fr McCartney said: "The problem is that there are those who can use drugs recreationally and there is no effect at all but there are those who have that addiction gene and would be vulnerable and exposed, going further on the addictive cycle. "There is evidence that cannabis does create problems for people. "We need to be putting more safeguards in regarding drugs that are legal like alcohol," the priest added. "We already have massive problems with alcohol and I think this legalisation move would only add to the problems." http://www.totalcatholic.com/tc/index.php/uk-and-ireland-news/1931-priest-rejects-calls-for-cannabis-to-be-legalised
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