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UK: Britain Conservative Party Reconsidering Its 'Zero
ccguide Wednesday 11 Oct 2000 Pubdate: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 Source: Salt Lake Tribune (UT) Copyright: 2000 The Salt Lake Tribune Contact: Address: 143 S Main, Salt Lake City UT 84111 Fax: (801)257-8950 Website: http://www.sltrib.com/ Forum: http://www.sltrib.com/tribtalk/ BRITAIN CONSERVATIVE PARTY RECONSIDERING ITS 'ZERO TOLERANCE' MARIJUANA POLICY LONDON -- The head of Britain's opposition Conservative Party, William Hague, said Monday the party will rethink its new "zero tolerance" policy on marijuana use after police criticism and admissions by some party leaders that they had once smoked the drug. The Conservatives' justice spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe announced the new policy at the party's annual conference last week, backing a mandatory $145 fine for a first offense of possessing marijuana. But after the outcry over the announcement -- which aimed to underline the party's law-and-order stance -- Hague signaled the policy would be reconsidered. "The proposals we have made are on the table, but they need further consultation, discussion and debate," he said. A top police organization, the Police Superintendents Association, immediately called the policy unenforceable, and several senior party members questioned the idea, admitting they had smoked marijuana in the past. "It was quite hard to go through Cambridge University in the '70s without doing it a few times," Francis Maude, the party's spokesman on foreign affairs, said in an interview with the Mail on Sunday newspaper. - --- MAP posted-by: Terry Liittschwager
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