French Socialists kill pro-cannabis call pre-election
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Three days before round one of a French parliamentary  election, President François Hollande's Socialists have crossed swords  over pot-smoking with their most likely coalition partner for the next  five years, the Greens party. The discord surfaced this week when Housing Minister Cecile Duflot,  head of the Greens party, said she backed the legalization of cannabis. Socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, trying to  put the matter to rest, said in a television interview that Hollande had opposed legalization of the soft drug during the  presidential election campaign.


						


