A LABOUR MP has admitted taking Ecstasy tablets and smoking marijuana.
In a candid interview, Simon Danczuk confessed to taking the Class A pills on more than one occasion and at one point smoking cannabis “several times a week”. The MP, whose second wife hit the headlines last week after posting a series of risque “selfies” on Twitter, said: “I have taken cannabis and Ecstasy. I don’t deny using soft drugs. I didn’t take any drugs in the run-up to the general election.
“Between 2007 and 2010, I didn’t use any drugs.”
The MP for Rochdale, Greater Manchester, lashed out earlier this year at drug dealers who he claimed were blighting his constituency. But Mr Danczuk, 47, has told a newspaper that prior to being elected in 2010, he had dabbled with illegal drugs. He added: “I smoked cannabis with my first wife. And I might have taken Ecstasy once or twice as a teenager. I occasionally used cannabis with my first wife Sonia but I never bought it. I used it a couple of times a week but I never used cocaine.”
Mr Danczuk’s first wife Sonia, 37, also told how the pair had enjoyed drug-fuelled nights out before they got married.
