Yes.
17 year-old William Straw was arrested shortly in December 1997, and the story broke in the newspapers here on Christmas Eve. Entertainingly, the British papers were not allowed to identify *which* Cabinet minister's child it was, leaving them free to run pictures of Jack Straw with captions like "minister responsible for drugs" or just "A Cabinet minister". (One paper, reviewing the media's coverage of the affair and the none-so-subtle hints that were dropped ran under the headline, "Not So Much Straws, As Haystacks In The Wind"). All the foreign papers and anyone with access to the net could, of course, discover his identity in moments.
Around New Year, 1998, a judge ruled that he could be identified, and the story faded from view. William Straw was cautioned by the police, but not charged, and Jack Straw went on to reiterate his opposition to legalisation, saying that cannabis was a "dangerous" drug.
Since then, about a third, I think, of William Hague's "Shadow Cabinet" has admitted smoking dope in the past, which played havoc with Shadow Home Secretary Ann Widdecombe's "Zero Tolerance" policy towards people caught with soft drugs, which she announced at the Tory conference last Autumn.
The article the Murrays have just circulated focuses on "an important move towards liberalisation of the law" on cannabis; the BBC radio coverage tonight has focused entirely on the Government's strong rejection of the main (and very moderate) recommendations of the Runciman Report.
Chris Brooke voiceoftheturtle.org