Brit soccer fans will be allowed to smoke dope to keep calm!
Source: WebIndia, India
Pub Date: Friday 11 June 2004
Subj: UK: Brit soccer fans will be allowed to smoke dope to keep calm!
URL: http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=40459&cat=Sports
Cited: Legalise Cannabis Alliance http://www.lca-uk.org/
England fans have been permitted to smoke dope before their football
team's opening Euro Cup fixture against France at Lisbon's Stadium of Light, to
keep them calm.
According to The Sun, Lisbon police plans to crack down on drunk fans
while those smoking cannabis will go free.
The pot-smoking fans have been assured that they will neither be
arrested, cautioned or even have their drugs confiscated.
"If people are drinking they lose control, if they smoke cannabis
they don't. Alcohol makes fans fight. But cannabis smokers will be shaking
hands and singing along together," Alun Buffry of the Legalise Cannabis
Alliance was quoted as saying.
"If people cause a problem through drugs and become a menace then
police will take action. But when this doesn't happen why should the police be
the ones making the fuss?" a Lisbon police spokeswoman said. (ANI)