| Roger Bunn: And I was there to
see it
Some people remember
where they were when man first walked on the Moon, or
when England won the FIFA World Cup, or when Diana had
her accident. But today, on the anniversary of my
daughterthing's birthday, where and when it
happened, I was there.
In the halloed halls of Committee Room 5 in the Place of
Westminster, sitting a few feet away from the UK Home
Secretary David Blunkett, made me feel rather special
today. Especially as I was mucho seriously relaxed and
listening to the Home Sec make what the media is calling
"radical changes" to the laws upon cannabis.
Weed, that the dreaded Randolph Hearst first connived to
criminalized is about to be reduced from a level of class
B drugs to a level C drug. And a bill will be forwarded
to both the House of Commons and Lords on the subject.
The latter may be a bit
sticky, but threatened with "we will expose all your
many faults m'lord" from the masses who love to lite
up and cruise. Where can a lord with secrets hide these
days except on top of a Christmas tree with all the rest
of the fairies?
While it is probable that the ex Drug Tzar Keith
Hellawell, who either did or did not desire immediate and
complete legalisation of the weed, (0ne can never get a
straight picture of what comes out of the UK Cabinet
Office these Blairite days). And in the midst of all
kinds of cannabine confusion, Blunkett and Hellawell fell
out and suddenly we all were missing a Tzar. .
One should thank such as MPs Paul Flynn and Dr Brian
Iddon for their parliamentary reasonings on the subject,
and the cannabis coalition who are in general a little
too disjointed to make much rapidity of progress towards
100% legalisation. Nevertheless, today in the UK, there
has become a start of an end of something that's been
criminalizing my butt for over 4 decades.
And, I was there to see it. How nice ;-).
Roger Bunn
Tuesday 23rd Oct 2001
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