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.