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Cannabis Legalisation Bill Before Commons

Belfast Telegraph

Friday 09 Jun 2000

Belfast Telegraph
Friday 9 June 2000

Cannabis Legalisation Bill Before Commons

A Bill calling for the legalisation of cannabis for medicinal use was
coming before Parliament for its second reading today.

A cross-party group of MPs, including such well-known Commons names as Tony
Benn and Martin Bell, signed an early day motion yesterday deploring the
continuing criminalisation of the soft drug.

They demanded that doctors be allowed to prescribe it to people suffering
from chronic pain caused by multiple sclerosis, Aids and the side effects
of chemotherapy.

The change in the law has been recommended by a House of Lords science
select committee, which suggested a limited number of doctors should be
allowed to prescribe cannabis to named patients in the same way that
millions of other prescriptions are dispensed.

Among the signatories are Lib Dem deputy leader Alan Beith, Gavin Strang
Labour's former transport minister and the Tory eurosceptic Teresa Gorman.

Former Labour minister Frank Field and Martin O'Neill, Labour chairman of
the Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee, have also backed the
motion, as has veteran cannabis campaigner and Labour backbencher Paul
Flynn (Newport West).

 

 

 

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