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Marijuana activists send joints to French deputies

Reuters

Wednesday 10 Dec 1997

PARIS, Dec 10 (Reuters) - A group advocating the decriminalisation [sic] of marijuana said on Wednesday it had sent a hand-rolled marijuana cigarette to every French MP, along with letters urging them to ease France's tough drug laws.

``This legislation, the most repressive in Europe, has done nothing to halt the massive spread of drugs, nor has it slowed the appetite of a certain number of our fellow citizens for illegal substances,'' the Paris-based Collective for Information and Research on Cannabis wrote.

A spokesman said the joints, made from marijuana grown in France, had been mailed on Tuesday afternoon. The group had not yet had any response from National Assembly deputies.

Some seven million of France's nearly 60 million people have tried marijuana at least once and about two million are regular users, according to official estimates.

Hundreds of French residents were jailed and thousands fined for use, possession or sale of marijuana last year, according to the organisation [sic]

 

 

 

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