PUB LTE: AN APPALLING RESPONSE TO DEBATE ON CANNABIS
Source: Evening News, Norwich, Uk
Pub date: Friday, January 28, 2005
Author: Alun Buffry, Legalise Cannabis Alliance
Cited: Legalise Cannabis Alliance - Challenge http://www.lca-uk.org/challengeintro.php
Ref: http://www.ccguide.org.uk/en250105.php
Web: http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk
AN APPALLING RESPONSE TO DEBATE ON CANNABIS
Home Secretary and Norwich South MP Charles Clarke says he has "no
respect" for the Legalise Cannabis Alliance, in reply to the invitation to
him to speak to his constituents at the UEA.
It is appalling that our elected MP cannot come into his own constituency
to speak about government policy on cannabis - note the LCA invited him to
speak to an open audience, rather than debate with us or to listen to us.
What is even more appalling is that the alliance has not received a
reply at all from Mr Clarke, regarding the invitation, and it is left to the
Evening News to get an answer.
Perhaps not surprising when one realises that last year it took the Home
Office more than eight months to even acknowledge receipt of the LCA's
"Challenge" (at that time, simply a challenge to talk to us).
Mr Clarke said in the Evening news "I have no respect for the pro
cannabis argument, I am pretty sure I have replied."
Well, I can assure readers that no reply has been received by the LCA.
Maybe Mr Clarke is suffering from an overactive imagination or short term
memory loss.
National co-ordinator
LCA Norwich