Synod Puts Drugs on Church Agenda
Garner, Clare, The Independent (London, England)
FOR THE first time in the General Synod's 27-year history, drugs are on the agenda. Next month members of the Church of England are to debate drugs policy, including the decriminalisation of cannabis and the prescription of heroin.
The Rev Kenneth Leech, a community theologian at St Botolph's, Aldgate, who has worked in the drugs field for the past 35 years and who is in favour of the decriminalisation of cannabis, has written a background report for the Synod debate.
In his paper, entitled: Drugs and the Church, he criticises the Government's "failure to see how drugs policy has itself helped to produce the present appalling situation." Of the Government's White …
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Article title: Synod Puts Drugs on Church Agenda.
Contributors: Garner, Clare - Author.
Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England).
Publication date: June 11, 1998.
Page number: 5.
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