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PM DITCHED DRUG REFORM VIEWS WHEN HE BECAME TORY LEADER

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Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 09/21/2015 - 20:41

"I would be unsurprised when he leaves office if he doesn’t revert to views he held before," says Blunt

David Cameron dumped deeply held views on the need for drugs reform – forged by a close relative’s addiction – so he could become Tory leader, a senior MP said last night.

As a newly elected MP, Mr Cameron was a passionate campaigner in Parliament for the 40-year-old laws to be reviewed, and claimed the war on drugs had failed.

His strong stand came from having to witness a close relative’s “crippling and life-threatening drug addiction”, a new biography of him by Lord Ashcroft has revealed.

But he carried out a total U-turn to oppose any change when he stood to be the new leader of the Conservative Party in 2005.

 

Crispin Blunt, Prisons Minister

Crispin Blunt, Prisons Minister (PA)

 

Senior Tory MP Crispin...

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