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UK: Legalise Cannabis, Urge Lib Dems
Sky News
Sunday 10 Mar 2002 Legalisation of cannabis has been adopted as official Liberal Democrat policy, against the advice of the party's policy group. Decriminalisation of the drug was recommended in a paper put before the party's spring conference in Manchester. But delegates opted to go further and back legalisation, a policy that will now have to be included in the party's election manifesto. Heroin They also voted at the Manchester gathering to accept a second amendment calling for doctors to be given the power to prescribe heroin to addicts. Leader Charles Kennedy said that having the confidence and maturity to discuss the issue honestly and openly did the party "no harm". Home affairs spokesman Simon Hughes said the policy change had been thought through carefully. He added: "This isn't a rush of blood to the head, we have taken two years to look at the evidence. Alternative "My experience is that people who have had the tragedy of drugs come into their lives know that the current law doesn't work and they want another alternative." Mr Hughes acknowledged that the party would have to persuade the electorate of the merits of their position. "We have to go out and sell the message," he said.
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