Cannabis Protest London: Date set
Cannazine | 28.01.2009 03:18 | Culture | Education
The protest date has been set for 10am wed 28th Jan 2009 as this will be Gordon Brown P.M’s first prime ministers question time in parliament since the new law came into place on the 26th Jan 2009. Gordon brown will be driving past on his way to and from parliament
Jim (Pinky) Starr is the founder of www.protestlondon.co.uk , and someone who is a self-confessed medicinal user of cannabis.
But try as he may, Jim Starr has failed to find out why he and other cannabis users deserve 5 years in prison for smoking cannabis and can face up to 14 years in prison now, just for sharing a spliff!
Pinky is unable to sit back and relax after already calling protests against the government in 2008 to give medicinal and recreation users the right to use cannabis without the fear of prosecution.
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If the mountain won't come to Mohammed...We'll see you in London Mr Brown..
Pinky and the protest London team along with other cannabis organisations, which consists of recreational as well as medicinal users, will be protesting outside the gates of parliament on the 28th January 2009 to show there own disgust at our government ignorance of laws which affect all cannabis users lives.
The protest London team invites all users of cannabis to come to London to unite and fight for what they believe in on the day. come and fly a banner of your choice, which will be shown to Gordon brown as he drives past us on the day. Please come along and show the reasons why you also disagree with the new uk cannabis law
The protest date has been set for 10am wed 28th Jan 2009 as this will be Gordon Brown P.M’s first prime ministers question time in parliament since the new law came into place on the 26th Jan 2009. Gordon brown will be driving past on his way to and from parliament
People shouldn’t have to face the cold because all letters get ignored. People have been advised to wrap up warm for this event and bring hot drinks along.
For more information please visit
http://www.protestlondon.co.uk Or e-mail us on This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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We'll see you in London
But try as he may, Jim Starr has failed to find out why he and other cannabis users deserve 5 years in prison for smoking cannabis and can face up to 14 years in prison now, just for sharing a spliff!
Pinky is unable to sit back and relax after already calling protests against the government in 2008 to give medicinal and recreation users the right to use cannabis without the fear of prosecution.
Image
If the mountain won't come to Mohammed...We'll see you in London Mr Brown..
Pinky and the protest London team along with other cannabis organisations, which consists of recreational as well as medicinal users, will be protesting outside the gates of parliament on the 28th January 2009 to show there own disgust at our government ignorance of laws which affect all cannabis users lives.
The protest London team invites all users of cannabis to come to London to unite and fight for what they believe in on the day. come and fly a banner of your choice, which will be shown to Gordon brown as he drives past us on the day. Please come along and show the reasons why you also disagree with the new uk cannabis law
The protest date has been set for 10am wed 28th Jan 2009 as this will be Gordon Brown P.M’s first prime ministers question time in parliament since the new law came into place on the 26th Jan 2009. Gordon brown will be driving past on his way to and from parliament
People shouldn’t have to face the cold because all letters get ignored. People have been advised to wrap up warm for this event and bring hot drinks along.
For more information please visit
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We'll see you in London
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A short visual history of Cannabis protests in London
28.01.2009 09:36
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solidarity
28.01.2009 09:42
gato loko
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
28.01.2009 09:59
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London SW1 4DF
Dear Home Secretary
In July 2007 you asked the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs to review the classification of cannabis in the light of real public concern about the potential mental health effects of cannabis use and, in particular, the use of stronger strains of the drug. I have pleasure in enclosing the Council’s report. You will note that, after a most careful scrutiny of the totality of the available
evidence, the majority of the Council’s members consider – based on its harmfulness to individuals and society – that cannabis should remain a Class C substance. It is judged that the harmfulness of cannabis more closely equates with other Class C substances than with those currently classified as Class B.
In providing this advice, however, the Council wishes to emphasise that the use of cannabis is a significant public health issue. Cannabis can unquestionably cause harm to individuals and society. The Council therefore advises that strategies designed to minimise its use and adverse effects must be predominantly public health ones. Criminal justice measures – irrespective
of classification – will have only a limited effect on usage. We therefore urge you to invite the UK’s Chief Medical Officers to develop, on behalf of the government, a public health strategy that will meet our shared goals. Anything less will prejudice the health of future generations.
The report also includes various research recommendations which we believe to be important to commission. We are confident that the government, with the Research Councils and the National Institute for Health Research, will wish to consider these very carefully.
In producing this report, the Council has had an extraordinary amount of valued help from various organisations as well as from members of the public. The Council is also very grateful to the clinicians and scientists who gave written and oral evidence. Some of them travelled a long way to do so.
Yours sincerely
Professor Sir Michael Rawlins FMedSci
Chairman
This is from the home office website. I thought the ACMD supported legalisation?
Cannabis should remain Class C
Homepage:
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Quite Right
28.01.2009 10:59
Yeah, I'll be far too stoned to get up at that time :)
Medicinal User
to be honest
28.01.2009 13:10
no body in particular
Some suggestions
28.01.2009 13:12
The use of cannabis should be depenalised, not just kept 'class C' or allowed for medical use.
The use of all drugs should be depenalised, as it is a matter if personal choices, right or wrong, and nobody has any business to interfere; instead, people should be given correct and realistic information so they would know what they are doing.
People die more often from the black market, i.e. because the drugs are cut with all sorts of poison, rather than they die from the drugs themselves.
If the use of drugs was depenalised, all the criminals who make huge profits out of them would run out of business.
The drug that causes more deaths than any other is a legal drug called alchool, but also nicotine and aspirine cause many more deaths than heroin for instance (and I may state again that people die of heroin because of the black market, they overdose because they do not know what they are taking). With that I oppose firmly the idea that alchool should be made illegal, it was tried in America during the prohibitionism years and resulted in the sale of alchool to go underground and in the hands of gangsters, who fluorished thanks to that...exaclty like with other drugs now!
So as a way of conclusion: the proibitionism of drugs is a bad idea altogether and has no other funciton than control the people and maximize the profits.
Against prohibitionism
International Law inhibits a better policy
28.01.2009 18:38
I suspect that if full legalisation was allowed, we would see a dramatic change of face from our cowardly politicians - there is a multibillion pound industry out there that is going completely untaxed, and wouldn't they like a share of it!
Re: the start time. It's not just a matter of being too idle or stoned to get out of bed. Remember that those of us who use the train have to pay a lot more to travel before 0930 on a weekday :0(
Pot Head Pixie