Pubdate: Tue, 24 Jun 2014
Source: Evening Standard (London, UK)
Copyright: 2014 Associated Newspapers Ltd.
Contact:  http://www.standard.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/914
Author: Shawn Seabrook

FOR AND AGAINST THE BAN ON KHAT

THERESA May is banning a substance on the flimsiest of pretexts: 
namely that it is inconvenient for it to be legal here while it isn't 
elsewhere, and that it may potentially cause domestic violence.

With regard to the latter, what are May's opinions on the use of 
alcohol by a much larger proportion of society? Is the ban on khat a 
dry run for a ban on all currently legal recreational drugs, alcohol 
included? Could politicians kindly refrain from micromanaging our lives.

Shawn Seabrook
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