POLICE LET SECOND 'CANNABIS CAFE' OPEN

BRITAIN'S second cannabis cafe opened yesterday near a drug rehabilitation
centre and with little interference from police.

The Dutch Experience in Bournemouth, Dorset, opened its doors to the
strains of the popular song "Because I Got High", six months after the
first cannabis cafe opened in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

The latest opening follows the more relaxed attitude of police to cannabis
possession in Lambeth, south London.

By lunchtime yesterday, business seemed brisk and the former warehouse
close to the Clouds Structured Day Treatment Programme, a drug
rehabilitation centre, was full of people openly rolling and smoking
cannabis joints. Jimmy Ward, 29, the owner, said he was abiding by the law.

Although patrons, some of whom are multiple sclerosis sufferers, are free
to smoke cannabis in the members' room, no other drugs are permitted and no
one under 18 will be admitted.