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UK: No Dope, Pal
ccguide Monday 12 Aug 2002 Pubdate: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 Source: Sunday Mail (UK) Copyright: 2002 Daily Record and Sunday Mail Ltd. Contact: Website: http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2260 Author: Brian Lironi, Stephen Rafferty Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?207 (Cannabis - United Kingdom) NO DOPE, PAL We'll Shut Down Your Hash Cafe A POLICE chief has warned he will close Scotland's first cannabis cafe as soon as it opens and arrest the owner. Deputy Chief Constable Tom Wood has written to Edinburgh publisher Kevin Williamson to warn him he will be breaking the law if he opens a hash cafe before the end of the year. Home Secretary David Blunkett said last month that cannabis would be downgraded to a class C drug, making it highly unlikely anyone caught with it would be prosecuted. But yesterday, the Lothian and Borders chief warned anyone thinking his force was relaxing its attitude to cannabis was gravely mistaken. He targeted Williamson, 34, who helped launch Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh's career , over plans to open a members-only cafe for over-18s with facilities like chessboards, an art gallery, cinema and bookshop. Williamson claims backers have stumped up UKP40,000 and he has signed a lease on a secret city centre property. But in his letter, Wood warned him: "I know that you have openly stated you intend to open and operate a cannabis cafe in Edinburgh. "I wish to make it quite clear the offences committed by any person attempting to open or operate a cannabis cafe and what actions police would take." Williamson could face up to five years in jail for selling a class C drug. Wood told the Sunday Mail: "There has been a lot of misinformation about cannabis since the Home Secretary made his announcement and we don't want people to be under any illusion as to what action we will take and what we will do." Describing his cafe on his website Williamson said: "We don't want it to look like some seedy drugs den but instead to be a bright, well-lit, cultural place, that will be worth dropping in to whether you smoked dope or not and a place you wouldn't feel embarrassed about taking your granny." - --- MAP posted-by: Terry Liittschwager
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