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UK: Euro-MP to protest against drugs law

Ananova

Saturday 15 Dec 2001

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A Euro-MP who says he has never taken illegal drugs is to seek arrest for
possession of cannabis in protest against the current law on the drug.

Liberal Democrat Chris Davies says he hopes to be arrested during a march
through Stockport, Greater Manchester, with hundreds of cannabis campaigners.

Mr Davies, Euro-MP for the North West of England, says he plans to carry a
small amount of cannabis on the back of a postage stamp and to turn himself
in to the police as part of the protest.

The move comes after weeks of similar protests following the opening of
Britain's first Amsterdam-style coffee shop in which people with a medical
need for cannabis as a painkiller are given subsidised "help" in obtaining
the drug.

The cafe's owner, Colin Davies - who is no relation of the MEP - is
currently being held on remand in custody at Strangeways Prison on drugs
charges.

For several weeks, pro-cannabis campaigners from across the country have
been meeting at the cafe - the Dutch Experience - and marching through
Stockport to protest about the law surrounding the drug.

Chris Davies said he had decided to join the campaign as a means of
supporting his constituents.

"Hundreds of British politicians admit in private that the law on cannabis
is a nonsense. It is time that more of them spoke out publicly," he said.

 

 

 

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