CHURCHMAN'S CALL ON DRUGS

A LEADING churchman today called for a review of the drugs laws, saying
cannabis is no more harmful than alcohol.

Academic Donald Macleod, of the Free Church of Scotland, backed new Liberal
Democrat leader Charles Kennedy's call for a Royal Commission to investigate
the laws.

He was speaking a few days after the Episcopalian Bishop of Edinburgh, the
Rt Rev Richard Holloway, admitted he had tried cannabis and spoke out
against existing policy towards drugs.