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UK: MPs want cannabis law eased

Daily Telegraph

Friday 20 Jul 2001

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THE campaign to legalise the use of cannabis is gaining support among
Labour MPs, according to a poll.

A majority of 116 Labour MPs taking part in a survey for the BBC's World
at One programme supported a substantial inquiry into the drug, such as
a royal commission.

The poll showed that nearly 80 of Tony Blair's backbenchers would be
prepared to vote for decriminalisation if it was recommended by a royal
commission, against 31 who said they would oppose it.

David Winnick, a Labour member of the Commons home affairs select
committee, predicted that cannabis would be decriminalised by the end of
this parliament.


 

 

 

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