Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Canada PM one breath up on Clinton
From: [civl 097] at [csc.canterbury.ac.nz]
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 09:09:47 GMT

From today's Christchurch "Press"

		HOPEFULS ADMIT INHALING DOPE

Ottawa,
	The two leading contender's to become Canada's next prime minister
have admitted to smoking marijuana in their youth,prompting one Toronto
comedy club to name its political satire show "Inhale to the Chief".

	Ms Kim Campbell, aged 46, who wants to be Canada's first woman 
Premier, and Mr Jean Charest, aged 34,bidding to be its youngest leader,
both have said during the campaign to succeed the retiring Premier, Mr
Brian Mulroney, that they experimented with marijuana.

	Ms Campbell, a former Justice  Minister, first claimed she had done 
nothing illegal but later admitted it was against the law.
	A bill now before Parliament, supported by thousands of Canadians with 
criminal records for smoking marijuana, would legalise possession and private 
cultivation.
	But whoever wins the Conservative Party is not expected to act on it. 
Both candidates oppose legalising marijuana and a survey found that 62 percent
of Conservative Party activists oppose it.

	Toronto's Second City comedy night-club saw fit to fashion a show 
around the topic,which last year made headlines when Mr Bill Clinton admitted 
during his campaign for the US presidency that he had smoked marijuana as a 
young man but never inhaled it.

--------------------------------------------------------------- via Reuter


I hear on this evening's news that Kim Campbell has indeed become Canada's
first woman Prime Minister.
-- 

Brandon Hutchison,University of Canterbury,Christchurch
                  New Zealand