That old Red Herring

A member of the audience at my recent Canterbury debate on drugs is posting on a dormant thread about the question of Keith Stroup and the use of 'medical cannabis' as a red herring to get pot a good name.

 

He says Mr Stroup denies the quotation.

 

If he follows this link, he will find that the record shows it to be accurate:

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/stroup-keith/

(the matter is addressed in even greater detail in my book 'The War We Never Fought'