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MPs call for cannabis cafes

BBC News On-Line

Wednesday 07 Jun 2000


Subject: MPs call for cannabis cafes

Source: BBC News On-Line

Pub Date: 7 June 2000

URL: http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid%5F781000/781196.stm


MPs call for cannabis cafes

Senior Welsh backbencher Paul Flynn has sponsored a motion in the House of
Commons calling for cannabis cafes to be set up in Britain along the lines
of those in the Netherlands.

Mr Flynn, the MP for Newport West, has been a long-time campaigner for the
decriminalisation of the drug.

The Commons motion is co-sponsored by Ann Clwyd, the MP for the Cynon
Valley, and has been signed by 13 other MPs at Westminster - including
three Conservatives.

They all want the licensed cafes to be set up on a trial basis and say the
plan has the support of the Police Federation.

But the Welsh Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs has called on parties in
the Assembly to distance themselves from the move by MPs.

Mr Flynn said that a Police Foundation report had found that after 20 years
of drug decriminalisation
in the Netherlands, young people there use cannabisless than they do in
Britain.

They also discovered that young Dutch people were less likely to use heroin
than in any country in Europe.

"It is clear that the British policy on prohibition of drugs is not working
and indeed is actually making
matters worse," Mr Flynn told BBC Newsonline Wales.

"We need a system which can be licensed and properly policed."

Mr Flynn had tried several times to persuade Parliament to allow doctors to
prescribe cannabis for medical use but had always failed because of a lack
of parliamentary time.

However the Welsh Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs has called on parties
in the Assembly to distance themselves from MPs who have supported
proposals for the Amsterdam-style cannabis coffee shops.

 

 

 

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