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Decriminalise Cannabis, Says Free Church Leader P J Bonthrone Daily Telegraph Tuesday 24 Oct 2000 URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1600/a09.html Newshawk: Mister Farmer Pubdate: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 Source: Daily Telegraph (UK) Author: P J Bonthrone DECRIMINALISE CANNABIS, SAYS FREE CHURCH LEADER A LEADING Free Church theologian has joined calls for cannabis to be decriminalised and has attacked the call by Ann Widdecombe, the shadow home secretary, for "zero tolerance" of drug abuse. Prof Donald Macleod, a minister and the principal of the Free Church College in Edinburgh, also said he did not rule out legalising the drug. Writing in the weekly West Highland Free Press, Prof Macleod said the drug was a "mild narcotic," which in the first instance should be downgraded from a class B drug. He wrote: "I am in favour of decriminalisation. I have never used cannabis but I have had contact with people who have. Alcohol causes much more widespread harm." Prof Macleod has never shied away from controversy. Three years ago he said that Irish unification was "both inevitable and appropriate" and he has in the past angered hardline members of the Free Church by saying that Roman Catholics had every right to invite the Pope to Britain.
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