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UK: Campaigner sends drug to senators

The Telegraph

Tuesday 06 Nov 2001

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A CANNABIS legalisation campaigner was arrested yesterday after sending
cigarettes containing the drug to every member of the Irish parliament.

Luke Flanagan, 29, posted them to the 60 senators and 166 deputies.

Last night, only a handful of deputies in the lower chamber, the Dail,
reported receiving the consignments which were discovered by officials who
are on alert for anthrax parcels.

Mr Flanagan was detained after attempting to deliver a cannabis plant to
the minister with responsibility for drugs, Eoin Ryan, at the department of
tourism.

Just before his arrest, Flanagan, of Castlerea, Co Roscommon, released a
statement saying he had sent the packages to "highlight the hypocrisies of
cannabis prohibition".

The campaigner, who recently changed his name to Ming the Merciless, has
campaigned for years for legalisation. He ran for parliament on a
pro-cannabis ticket in the last general election, polling 540 votes.

A spokesman for the department of justice said there were no plans to
change the laws on cannabis, or any other drugs. The British Government
last week downgraded cannabis from a Class B to a Class C drug.

 

 

 

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