Pubdate: Wed, 17 Apr 2002
Source: Evening News (UK)
Copyright: Eastern Counties Newspapers Group Ltd,2002
Contact:  http://www.norfolk-now.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/141
Author: Richard Saunders
Cited: Legalise Cannabis Alliance http://www.lca-uk.org
Contact:  Newshawk's headline

COFFEESHOP IN NORWICH WOUDL BE A SOCIAL ASSET

FOR several years I have been reading the comments concerning the use of 
cannabis.

being neither for or against its recreational use, I attended the recent 
conference of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance.

I was surprised to learn that the Dutch government had downgraded soft 
drugs in 1975 and, although still illegal, the sale and consumption of 
cannabis is officially tolerated in regulated coffee shops.

I feel sure that the opening of a Dutch-style regulated coffee shop in 
Norwich would be a social asset to many cannabis users.

Any suggestions that the shop would attract undesirable behaviour or the 
problems of night time clubland would, I believe, be totally out of order.

Richard Saunders Highland Road Norwich
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