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UK: SSP set to light up for drugs stunt

Edinburgh Evening News

Saturday 27 Jul 2002

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CANNABIS campaigners were taking to the streets of Edinburgh today
disguised as a giant spliff.

The Princes Street stunt is part of the Scottish Socialist Party's call
for the legalisation of the drug to put it on a par with alcohol and
tobacco.

SSP activists were to dress up as cigarettes, beer and a giant spliff,
and form an identity parade while party drugs spokesman Kevin
Williamson, dressed as a policeman, will ask passers-by to spot the odd
one out.

Mr Williamson, who has announced plans to open Edinburgh's first
cannabis cafe, said: "I would like to see the supply of cannabis taken
out of the hands of the criminal black market and available instead via
licensed premises like alcohol and tobacco.

"David Blunkett's plans to reduce cannabis to a category C drug is
itself a cop-out, but doing so and maintaining the supply in the hands
of the criminal black market may lead to the worst of all worlds."

 

 

 

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