Source: The Scotsman, Edinburgh, Scotland
Contact: Letters_ts@scotsman.com

>Steel says drug ban is a failure
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>Sir David Steel, the elder statesman of the Liberal Democrats, said
>yesterday that prohibition of soft drugs had been a failure and that
>politicians were not qualified to deal with the subject.
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>On ITN's lunchtime news, Sir David, whose son Graeme was jailed for
>nine months in 1995 for growing cannabis plants worth 30,000 UKP at his
>Borders cottage, said:
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>"Politicians are not in the best position to pontificate on this
>subject. It is largely a generation problem and that's why we are
>realistic in the Liberal Democrats by saying let's have a Royal
>Commission as we had on the issue of embryo research."
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