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IN recent year many high-profile MPs have admitted smoking cannabis as students.
They include several Tory shadow ministers, including party chairman Francis Maude. Shadow Education Secretary David Willetts said he once tried the drug, as did Oliver Letwin, who heads David Cameron's policy development team.
Speaking about cannabis, senior Tory Tim Yeo once said: "I don't share the view that it was disagreeable.
I found it agreeable."
Ex-MP Neil Hamilton said of his experience: "I couldn't taste anything."
Senior Labour figures have also admitted use. Junior minister Yvette Cooper said: "I did try cannabis, like a lot of students at that time." The late Mo Mowlam, a former Northern Ireland Minister, said: "I tried marijuana, didn't like it and unlike Clinton I did inhale."
Newport MP Paul Flynn of the all-party group on drug misuse, backs a change in the law to allow the medicinal use of cannabis.
Source: Mirror, The (UK)
Copyright: 2007 The Mirror
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They include several Tory shadow ministers, including party chairman Francis Maude. Shadow Education Secretary David Willetts said he once tried the drug, as did Oliver Letwin, who heads David Cameron's policy development team.
Speaking about cannabis, senior Tory Tim Yeo once said: "I don't share the view that it was disagreeable.
I found it agreeable."
Ex-MP Neil Hamilton said of his experience: "I couldn't taste anything."
Senior Labour figures have also admitted use. Junior minister Yvette Cooper said: "I did try cannabis, like a lot of students at that time." The late Mo Mowlam, a former Northern Ireland Minister, said: "I tried marijuana, didn't like it and unlike Clinton I did inhale."
Newport MP Paul Flynn of the all-party group on drug misuse, backs a change in the law to allow the medicinal use of cannabis.
Source: Mirror, The (UK)
Copyright: 2007 The Mirror
Contact: mailbox@mirror.co.uk
Website: Mirror Online: The intelligent tabloid. #madeuthink
