12 December 2012
Maldon: I smoked cannabis and didn't like it, says MP: Maldon Standard.
January 1998
It is the view of almost everyone involved in the fight against drugs that legalisation of Cannabis would make the problem worse. There is evidence that taking cannabis does have harmful effects and also that it leads on to the taking of other more dangerous drugs. I am therefore opposed to legalisation.
John Whittingdale OBE MP
Member of Parliament for Maldon and East Chelmsford