Eight Cabinet ministers: We took cannabis
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Eight Cabinet ministers: We took cannabis
Telegraph.co.uk – Jul 23, 2007
She had smoked it “just a few times”, had “not particularly” enjoyed it and now realised it was “wrong”. On Wednesday, Mr Brown announced that she would head a review of drugs strategy, including whether to reverse the earlier decision to downgrade cannabis from a class B to a class C drug. Although several senior Tory and Labour politicians, including the former Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, had previously admitted smoking cannabis, Miss Smith’s frank admission forced a string of other ministers into the open. Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, when asked if he smoked it, said: “Occasionally in my youth… Tony McNulty, the police minister, admitted he had used cannabis. “At university I encountered it, I smoked it once or twice, and I don’t think many people who were at university at the time didn’t at least encounter it,” he said. Vernon Coaker, the Home Office minister responsible for drugs, has already admitted having “one or two puffs of marijuana” while a student. The admissions put David Cameron, the Conservative leader, under fresh pressure to clarify whether he took drugs at Eton or university. He has never admitted to drug use, despite well-founded rumours and allegations. He has argued that he is entitled to a private life before he came into politics, in which he may have made mistakes. Tory officials said he stood by that and would make no further comment.
What they said: Politicians on cannabis
Telegraph.co.uk – Jul 23, 2007
There is absolutely no suggestion that this in any way involves me or members of my family and both I and Strathclyde Police regard the matter as closed. Peter Hain, Work and Pensions Secretary: “I remember, when I was 19, someone trying to stick a spliff or whatever you call them into my mouth, angry that I wasn’t smoking it. Yvette Cooper, the minister for housing: “I did try cannabis while at university, like a lot of students, and it is something that I have left behind. ” Charles Clarke, the former Home Secretary: “I was asked if I had ever taken drugs and I replied I had taken it a couple of times in my late teens. It is important to tell the truth. Mo Mowlam, the late Northern Ireland Secretary: “I tried marijuana, didn’t like it particularly and, unlike President Clinton, I did inhale. But it wasn’t part of my life… ” Charles Clarke, the former Home Secretary: “I was asked if I had ever taken drugs and I replied I had taken it a couple of times in my late teens. It is important to tell the truth. Mo Mowlam, the late Northern Ireland Secretary: “I tried marijuana, didn’t like it particularly and, unlike President Clinton, I did inhale. But it wasn’t part of my life. CONSERVATIVE David Cameron, on revelations that he was disciplined for smoking cannabis at Eton: “I’m not issuing a denial, what I am saying is that I think it’s an important principle that politicians are entitled to a private past. Francis Maude, former party chairman: “It was hard to go through Cambridge in the 70s without doing it a few times. ” Oliver Letwin, chairman of policy review: “Some friends put dope in my pipe.
How dangerous is skunk?
Guardian Unlimited – Jul 23, 2007
Skunk, a hybrid form of cannabis, gets its name from the pungent odour it emits while growing. Now the term is popping up everywhere as a generic name for cannabis with higher levels of its main active compound, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). According to Frank, the Home Office’s drugs advice website, skunk contains on average two to three times the amount of THC of ordinary cannabis… Skunk, a hybrid form of cannabis, gets its name from the pungent odour it emits while growing. Now the term is popping up everywhere as a generic name for cannabis with higher levels of its main active compound, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). According to Frank, the Home Office’s drugs advice website, skunk contains on average two to three times the amount of THC of ordinary cannabis.
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OCRegister – Jul 23, 2007
Does Chauncey realize that we have no idea how many people are out and about while under the influence of various pain-relieving, mood-stabilizing and anxiety-reducing drugs? Oxycontin, Vicodin, Codeine, Valium, Soma, Xanax or pick another