Smoky bears picnic

The dog was unleashed as the police surrounded the crowd. During the holiday season in Portsmouth,
a popular sea side city on the South of England, police mounted a large intimidation and harassment
operation. One police officer recorded all with a digital video camera lens strapped to the side of his
head. Another team of officers with video cameras and audio recording equipment recording every
face within the growing crowd.

Was this a mob out of control ? the answer is a simple, no. At 2pm today 300 citizens gathered on
their own common to protest at the prohibition of cannabis. In the largest, longest running annual
direct action protest calling for cannabis to be legalised, police decided to "deal with the illegal
consequence of the events" as their press office stated. In a peaceful sit down picnic with information
being distributed about why cannabis is currently illegal. Numerous people were roughly bundled out
of the Smoky Bears picnic protest after a sniffer dog pointed them out.

Dozens of people were detained in a row of police vans and searched for illegal substances. What the
police overlooked was that the sniffer dogs are trained to sniff out anyone who has handled cannabis
in the last 24 hours. At a publicised cannabis legalisation protest event the police obviously didn't
count on the fact that most people will have handled the substance recently. To counteract this, most
people decided to bring along joints with only legal substances contained within it. Inevitably drug
possession arrests were low, enormous amount of police time was wasted and the dog was put back in
its cage with its tail between its legs. The police press spokesman, with the apt name of Susan
Rolling, refused to comment on how effective the sniffer dog had been. One activist who had been
searched and eventually released without charged said " it was a total waste of tax payers money
having a sniffer dog, and over 50 police, numerous vans and surveillance cameras."

Police succeeded in finding a large quantity of Oxo stock cube, various legal smoking material and a
chocolate cake. The massive operation also managed to stop a group of entertainers walking on stilts.

More to follow.