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Cannabis and Cocaine Confessions 'Drip' with Ministerial Hypocrisy
http://pr.cannazine.co.uk : According to PM Gordon Brown the current cannabis dispute is all about sending out the right message.
But in an interview published today by Marie Claire magazine and undertaken by Janet Street Porter, Conservative Mayoral candidate Boris Johnson has admitted he used not only cannabis, but also class 'A' substance cocaine, when he was a student.
According to the "Misuse of Drugs Act" the penalties for the possession of cocaine, a highly dangerous and addictive by-product of the coca plant, are "up to seven years imprisonment", an unlimited fine, or both. Hardly the "form" for a prospective Mayor of London?
"Banzai" Boris Johnson
If we are looking at sending signals to the Great British youth, it would be fair to ask if a history of cocaine and cannabis use is acceptable for a prospective Mayor of London who is charged with over-seeing the spending of literally millions of pounds of public funds?
Or indeed whether the Mayor should be consuming alcohol in his office at 10am as current incumbent Ken Livingstone does?
Conservative leader David Cameron who studied at Oxford with Bozzer, is expected to have to answer questions regarding his own drug past after once telling the press he had a "normal student experience" with drugs.
Mr Cameron also fails to deny he came close to being expelled from Eton in another cannabis related offence, which will have certain quarters of the press questioning Mr Cameron as to just how normal a student experience he actually had?
Details of Mr Johnson's drug past emerged today when he was asked about his previous jokey references to cocaine use, to which he replied: "Well, that was when I was 19. It all goes to show that sometimes it's better not to say anything. I thoroughly disagree with drugs. I don't want my kids having drugs."
Asked by Street-Porter whether he had smoked "dope" before university, Mr Johnson replied: "That's true but the stuff you and I may have smoked is not the same as what the kids are having now. I think skunk and this stuff is very, very dangerous".
Mr Johnson isn't the only serving member of parliament to come clean about his sordid drug taking years.
Virtually the entire serving cabinet admitted in 2007, that they had used cannabis to varying degrees.
Prime Movers This included the prime movers in the current reclassification debate, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, and Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker, and this hypocrisy is perhaps what has incensed the UK cannabis community who are told in one breath "yes we used to use cannabis when we were students", and yet in the next breath, "we are planning to lock you up for up to 5 years for doing the same".
Blatant hypocrisy within the highest office in the land!
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