What
British MP's say about
cannabis legalisation
SEE ALSO:
LIST OF UK MPs WHO HAVE
ADMITTED TRYING CANNABIS
LIST OF UK MPs
- Graham Allen, Labour, Nottingham,
North: Drug Test 10-Year-Olds Says MP: BBC News, 17 December 2002
- John
Bercow, Independent, Buckingham, June 2002
- Hazel Blears,
Salford & Eccles, Labour: Teeside Evening Gazette, 18 August 2003
- Tom Brake, Lib Dem, Carshalton and Wallington: tried to make the sale of cannabis seeds illegal with his Cannabis Seeds (Prohibition) Ten Minute Rule Bill: July 2008
- Julian Brazier, Conservative, Canterbury: Letter, July
2006
- James Brokenshire, Conservative, Old Bexley & Sidcup: Reply from Home Office 24 Feb 2011 - page 1 and page 2
- Nick Clegg, Lib Dem, Shefield Hallam: Clegg will not legalise cannabis: May 5 2010
- Yvette
Cooper, Labour, Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
- John
Denham, Labour, Southampton: July 20 2007
- Alan
Duncan, Conservative, Rutland and Melton
- Angela
Eagle, Labour Wallasey, September 2001
- Michael Ellis, Conservative, Northampton North, October 2010
- Nigel Evans, Conservative, Ripple Valley, September 2007
- Caroline Flint, Labour, Don Valley: I Tried
Cannabis But Didn't Like It: The Scotsman, 4 July 2003
- Paul Flynn, Labour, Newport West Make
Heroin Legal, Say Cannabis MPs: Evening Standard,12 July 2002
- Kate Hoey, Labour, Vauxhall,
called for end to Lambeth Project in House, June 2002
- George Howarth, Labour, Knowsley
- Simon
Hughes, Lib Dem, Bermondsey & Old Southwalk
- Charles
Kennedy, Lib Dem, Ross, Skye & Lochaber: I Don't. But Why Shouldn't They?: Independent on Sunday, 15 July 2001
- Oliver Letwin, Conservative, West Dorset Tory Warning Over
Cannabis Reform: Daily Telegraph1 July 2002
- Oliver Letwin, Conservative, West Dorset: Pot Proposals Are 'Worst of
Both Worlds': Western Gazette, 18 July 2002
- Oliver
Letwin, Conservative, West Dorset, March 1999
- Peter Lilley, Conservative, Hitchin
and Harpenden: Legalise Cannabis Says Lilley5 July 2001
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Peter Lilley, Conservative, Hitchin
and Harpenden: Cannabis Policy Cannot Continue: BBC News, 4 February 2002
- Tim Loughton, Conservative, Worthing East& Shoreham: Mixed Messages On
Soft Drugs Fuelling Cannabis Café Problem: Worthing Herald, 29 May 2003
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- Francis Maude, Conservative
Horsham admitted that he has smoked cannabis
- Andrew Miller, Labour,
Ellesmere Port and Leston, September 2010
- Bob Russell, Lib Dem,
Colchester Votes Against Cannabis Legalisation: East Anglian
Daily Times, 11 March 2002
- Keith
Simpson, Conservative, Broadland, January 1998
- Chloe Smith, Conservative, Norwich North, February 2012
- Jack
Straw, Labour, Blackburn
- Jack Straw, Labour, Blackburn: We
Made a Mistake on Cannabis, September 25 2007, The Telegraph
- Angela Watkinson, Conservative,
Upminster, opposed report of Home Affairs Committee inquiry into UK
government policy on drugs, May 2002
- John
Whittingdale OBE, Conservative, MaldonJanuary 1998
- David Willetts, Conservative,
Havant: admitted that he smoked cannabis
- Ian Wright, Labour,
Harlepool: MP backs new drugs sentences: Jan 26 2012
- Tim Yeo, Labour, South
Suffolk: Let Doctors Prescribe Cannabis, Says MP Yeo: East Anglian Daily
Times, 21 February 2001
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