Pubdate: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 Source: Scotsman (UK) Copyright: The Scotsman Publications Ltd 2000 Contact: http://www.scotsman.com/ Forum: http://www.scotsman.com/ BILL TO DECRIMINALISE CANNABIS TO GO BEFORE PARLIAMENT A Labour MP is to introduce a bill to Parliament which would decriminalise the use of cannabis. Paul Flynn's bill follows the release of a Police Foundation report advocating liberalisation of Britain's drug laws and the end of the use of prison sentences to punish cannabis offences. Mr Flynn, MP for Newport West, says he believed there had been a major change in public attitudes towards drug use, and that Britons now understood that the UK's tough drug laws were causing more problems than they were solving. - --- MAP posted-by: Greg