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UK: Mowlam backs Telegraph editorial
The Daily Telegraph, UK
Wednesday 12 Apr 2000 Subj: UK: Mowlam backs Telegraph editorial SDate: 12 April, 2000 Source: The Daily Telegraph, UK Mowlam backs Telegraph editorial By Toby Helm and George Jones THE Minister for the Cabinet Office, Mo Mowlam, hinted yesterday that she favours a more liberal approach than Tony Blair to soft drugs such as cannabis. During a visit to Berlin where she discussed anti-drugs policy with Christa Nickels, the German Parliamentary State Secretary for Health Policy, and visited a drug rehabilitation centre, Dr Mowlam seemed to back a proposal that cannabis be legalised for a trial period. Referring to a leading article in The Telegraph last month, which suggested legalising cannabis for an experimental period, she said: "It is the only time that I have seen a Daily Telegraph editorial that I was not completely opposed to." The call for decriminalising cannabis has been rejected by Jack Straw, the Home Secretary, and Mr Blair, who say a more liberal policy would mean Britain taking over from Holland as the centre for Europe's drugs trade. Dr Mowlam is responsible for co-ordinating Government drugs policies.
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