Pubdate: Mon, 14 Jan 2002
Source: Times, The (UK)
Copyright: 2002 Times Newspapers Ltd
Contact:  http://www.the-times.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/454
Author: Ian Cobain
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)

ETON WAIVES THE RULES ON DRUG EXPULSIONS

ETON College appears to have bent its own strict rules on drugs to allow 
Prince Harry to escape expulsion. Until the Eton pupil was caught smoking 
cannabis, any pupil involved with drugs knew that he faced instant exclusion.

Even boys caught using the drug outside Eton -- as Prince Harry did -- have 
been expelled as the result of a policy of zero tolerance introduced by 
John Lewis, the Head Master, who said: "We make it absolutely clear that 
use, possession or sale will mean forfeiting a place in the school."

However, Mr Lewis is understood to have known since July that Prince Harry 
had been caught smoking cannabis. He was not available for comment yesterday.
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