2007-07-18 22:57:04 · 24 answers · asked by Victor E 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
25 years ago? she looks like she's still smoking it,a lot of fuss about nothing,
2007-07-18 23:07:58 · answer #1 · answered by mark john t 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If someone asks a politician a question they must answer it honestly. And that is all she has done. Does smoking cannabis 25 years ago mean she can't do her job?
I suspect the question was asked of her because some "friend" from 25 years ago mentioned it to a journalist. Personally, I don't think a Labour MP smoking cannabis or having an affair is as bad as a Tory MP doing the same. Labour isn't quite so aggressively moralistic as the Tories, so I think they can get away with it. If she was telling us not to do it, that would be different.
2007-07-18 23:12:36 · answer #2 · answered by undercover elephant 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
She's absolutely right. Get that issue open and done with. She probably didn't smoke it alone and she had to get it from someone. A person who holds a secret about you has power over you. Expose the secret and the power is gone. What I think is strange is anyone of her age who hasn't at least tried it. She's far better off admitting it now than to wait for someone to expose her.
2007-07-18 23:14:13 · answer #3 · answered by David M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I presume she only admitted it because one of her ex-friends had offered to sell the story to the press. Most students try cannabis, tobacco, alcohol and sex - is this news? (OK so I was only in the room where cannabis was being smoked - but I admit to stealing the beer barrel when everyone else was high)
2007-07-18 23:05:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
How refreshing to see some honesty from a politician. Personally, I don't think it a big deal at all in view of the 60s ethos...
A smoke all those years ago is not significant compared with political corruption today
2007-07-19 00:06:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't really matter - I heard the last Home secretary smoked it too.
It isn't really an issue - Woman has spliff over twenty years ago.
I appreciate her honesty.
2007-07-18 23:33:31 · answer #6 · answered by LongJohns 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It would probably come out anyway; it might as well come out from him. As more and more baby boomers are of an age to go into national politics, a decent percent of them will have experimented with mild drugs in their youth. I don't know why it would be a big deal, but why not just say "Yeah I did it, it was a long time ago, let's get back to the issues"?
2007-07-18 23:02:11 · answer #7 · answered by Vaughn 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Im glad she has - why on earth would we want somebody who will have a big influence on drugs policy not to have tried the bloody things!?! Even the most well behaved and responsible students smoke a few joints....if none of our politicians have, we are in even bigger trouble than i thought! why dont they just admit it and be proud!
2007-07-18 23:06:09 · answer #8 · answered by jungle bunny 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes I think so - no-one is really interested, but it may stop a feeding frenzy by the daily rags. I have no particular liking for politicians of any denomination, but they are all human and I do not expect a plaster saint to be able run the country.
2007-07-18 23:10:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
She only owned up, as I bet, someone from her univesity days was going to leak information to a daily newspaper. So she was cornered into it.
Not that it matters, the government and all governments in the near future will have a crap drugs policy.
2007-07-18 23:06:08 · answer #10 · answered by Spawnee 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋