Topic: | Re:Re: The Debate in Parliament | |
Posted by: | Alastair Banton | |
Date/Time: | 15/10/15 12:25:00 |
'Norman Lamb, a former Liberal Democrat health minister under the last coalition government, repeated his assertion that at least 50% of the government had smoked cannabis before. “There’s is extraordinary hypocrisy on this issue,” he said. “Senior politicians [are] frequently challenged about their use of cannabis and other drugs in their teenage and early adult years and admit to such drug use and laugh it off as a youthful indiscretion. “And apparently [they are] comfortable with thousands of their fellow countrymen and women ending up with a criminal record for doing precisely the same thing, usually people who are less fortunate than those politicians who reach the top of government.” ' Exactly. And these same politicians wonder why people, especially the young, are turning away from politics. It also occurs to me that these laws are almost certainly impacting the number of young people applying to join the police force. Who would want to be put in the position of having to arrest or charge one of their mates for smoking a bit of weed? |