‘Legalise heroin’, rock star Lemmy tells the Assembly
HEAVY metal star Lemmy raised a few eyebrows at the National Assembly when he called for heroin to be legalised back in November 2005.
The Motorhead frontman told politicians the only way to regulate the drug was to decriminalise it.
Lemmy, famous for hits like Ace of Spades, was invited to the Assembly by Conservative AM William Graham, who saw the rock star speak about heroin in a documentary.
Mr Graham told fellow ministers and a gaggle of journalists, photographers and cameramen that Lemmy had an “important message” to give about drugs, but his party later stressed they didn’t share the rock star’s policy.
Lemmy said: “Heroin is the single most destructive drug in the world. It destroys a person’s life.
“I have never taken heroin, but since I moved to London from north Wales in 1967 I have mixed with junkies on a casual and almost daily basis. “I believe the only way to treat heroin is to legalise it.”
He said the move would get rid of two-thirds of drug dealers, stop young people being turned into criminals and would generate tax revenue – “which I am sure would appeal to you all,” he told the politicians.
He said he was not a Tory, adding: “If anything, I’m an anarchist.” Mr Graham said: “Lemmy has an alternative solution to the one presently being tried.
“It’s part of the debate. The message is against drugs.”
Lemmy later played a Motorhead 30th-anniversary show in Cardiff.
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