REEFER MADNESS FOR HER ROYAL HIGH-NESS

Queen Elizabeth gladly accepts a "kind" bouquet of marijuana buds
(left) from legalization advocate Colin Davies (above), whose efforts
to loosen her royal highness' views on the happy herb were snuffed by
her pot-poaching chauffeur (below).Photos: Brian KeyBritish stoners
giggled with glee last week after a pot-legalization advocate handed
an unwitting Queen Elizabeth a bouquet of marijuana buds - which she
accepted with a smile.

"I was behind a barrier close to [her] limo, and I just shouted 'Your
Majesty,'" said Colin Davies, founder of the Medical Marijuana
Co-operative, which defies British law to give grass to multiple
sclerosis sufferers and others.

"She turned around and came up to me with a lovely smile. Her eyes lit
up when she saw the pale yellow blooms," said Davies, who grew the
pungent, spiky-leafed plant himself, then wrapped it in floral paper
and put a pretty green bow on it.

The publicity stunt comes on the heels of a weed war that flared up in
Parliament two weeks ago, when Shadow Home Secretary Ann Widdecombe
called for a zero-tolerance crackdown on pot.

Her initiative quickly hit the skids when seven of Widdecombe's
Cabinet colleagues admitted to having smoked pot - one even claiming
he enjoyed it.

Red-faced royal aides insisted the reefer bouquet given to the queen
never made it inside the gates of Buckingham Palace, where the Beatles
are said to have fired up a doobie in the bathroom before meeting her
majesty in 1965.

Instead, the aides said, the pot was probably given to a local
hospital by police, who routinely turn over flower arrangements given
to the royals to the sick. But nobody really knows what became of the
buds.

"It was a harmless way of trying to bring to the notice of her majesty
the ludicrous restrictions on cannabis," Davies said.

The Beatles' joint in the john notwithstanding, the historical high
point at Buckingham may have been Queen Victoria's rumored smoke-outs
to relieve menstrual pains.