UK: Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb Visits UoB to Discuss Mental Health and Drug Reform
A small group of students, one of whom held a Liberal Democrat flag, were gathered outside the Rosa Parks room in the Guild of Students at a few minutes to one on the 18th of October. Inside the room, about sixty students (a number that seemed to pleasantly surprise the organisers) were gathering to hear their guest speaker talk.
The former Minister entered after a few minutes, armed with no script but a cup of Costa coffee.
Lamb has been MP for North Norfolk since 2001 and served in several positions in the 2010-2015 coalition government before ending up as a Minister in the Department of Health. Lamb is passionate about mental health and, despite being ‘instinctively quite hostile to drugs’, believes that the prohibition of narcotics is harmful. Lamb has attempted, in the past, to submit a private members’ bill to legalise cannabis and says he intends to try...
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