In the week that Gordon Brown has decided to recommend that cannabis is recategorised as a class B drug, my colleague Jayne McCoy and I are looking into ways to protect young people from a new shop in Wallington.“Your High” in Stafford Road has cannabis leaf images on its shop banner and windows and according to its website stocks “herbal highs, bongs, pipes, smoking paraphernalia”. Shops like this are commonplace in Camden Town but not in Wallington and we are worried that the shop, which is on route to Bandon Hill primary School for many children, may be seen as glamourising drug taking.
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As a rule of thumb in the Blair/Brown era, if you put it around that someone enjoys it they will almost certainly slap some sort of a ban on it!
Having worked in Camden and also Brighton which have several of these emporia, I dont really see much wrong in them and they add to the overall "ambience" of the area but Wallington aint Camden or Brighton. I use these shops quite alot for novelty stuff like Bandanas, badges etc and it is good to have some sort of diversity, I actually go to Brighton just for the shops!
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