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cannabiscoalition.org archive of the cannabis coalition (uk)	Press Release - Cannabis Coalition uk August 1999 - No Victim - No Crime 'Free Cannabis Month' Sep 99 With the 71st anniversary of the prohibition of cannabis on Tuesday September 28th, and a medical cannabis bill due in Parliament on the 5th November, the next few weeks sees cannabis action nationwide in the UK. "The prohibition of cannabis is one of the biggest mistakes in British legal history. It costs the British tax payer about one billion pounds a year to enforce, and after 71 years needs to be sorted out urgently" said a spokesperson for the Cannabis Coalition (UK) which has announced a 'Free Cannabis Month' of cannabis related events: Every Saturday in September: 'Picnic' in Corporation Park, Blackburn, Lancashire (Home of Jack Straw M.P.). Also information stall in the town centre and from a shop right across the road from Blackburn Rovers FC (Jack's fav team!!!). People will be outside the games giving free cannabis info and stickers. Info/press contact: Dave@natrul.freeserve.co.uk Bush Telegraph - cannabis magazine relaunched for September: Out now - contact Flatpress, PO Box 1221, Oxford, OX4 4WX. Tel: 01865 432739. email: bt@netmatters.co.uk . Also check out the latest issues of 'Weed World', 'High Times', 'Cannabis Culture' and the excellent uk cannabis monthly 'cc news'. For contacts see listings on web. Thurs Sep 9th (9/9/99): Cannabis Prisoners Day. "There's people in jail!" - say organisers who are calling on supporters nationwide to " Do something high quality" on this unique date. Note: There are enough cannabis prisoners in the UK to fill four and a half typical sized prisons, plus there are over 72,000 arrests for cannabis every year. Weds Sep 15th: TV Broadcast: 'Living with the Enemy', BBC 2. (9.00pm). The challenge is to live for a week with your complete opposite and if possible convert them to your view. In this film rabid anti cannabis person James Hellyer is 'anti-matched' with the 'Exodus Collective' for whom the cannabis herb is the 'healer of the nations' and an essential ingredient for the future survival of humanity. The plan was for them all to end up at the Mayday festival on Clapham Common but Hellyer lasts just four days and then went to the police to make a formal complaint. Rivetting viewing. Friday - Sunday, Sept 17-19, 1999: Cannabusiness 1999. The 4th International 'CannaBusiness' trade show near Cologne, Germany, does not separate between "rope" and "dope". The world's biggest exhibition of cannabis and its products. For more information visit the Cannabusiness page at: http://www.cannabusiness.com Sat Saturday Sep 18th: 'Healer of the Nations' march and one day cannabis festival. Wardown Park, Luton. Organised by the 'Campaign Against Narcotic Abuse Because of Ignorance in Society' (C.A.N.A.B.I.S), with Exodus and many others. Directions:off New Bedford Road, M1 Junction 10, into centre of Luton, pick up signs for A6, just past bridge on right hand side. Easy access from Luton Railway station & busses. More details & flyers: Canabis, C/o Haz Manor, 1-2 Bramingham Lane, Streatley, nr Luton, Beds, LU3 3NL. Phone: 01582 750727. E mail: exoduscollective @csi.com . More about the festival online at http://www.schmoo.co.uk/fest.htm Sat Sep 25th: Smokey Bears Picnic - Free Cannabis In The Park '99 - Fully Liberated Cannabis Picnic, London. Starting at High Noon from Speakers Corner, Mr Free Rob Cannabis shall be presenting a talk about Cannabis Liberation. After the talk there will be a 'peace pipe ceremony'. Signatures will be collected for a petition asserting everyones basic human right to being allowed to cultivate and use the planet's most valuable plant; cannabis. Details: CIA (Cannabis In Avalon), PO Box 2223, Glastonbury, BA6 9YU, England. Tel: 01458 833236. E mail: cannabisinfo@stones.com . Web: http://www.dicenews.com/hemp Sat Sep 25th: Free Party, London. 'chimaera' present 'convention' two rooms of breakbeat & techno 10-6am, donations. Cannabis related info, hemp products, speakers, etc at Geneva's, Homerton . Ring for more info on 07932 441153 or e-mail us at: dancemental@hotmail.com Sun Sep 26: Smokeys Bears Picnic, Norwich. Meet: Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich, 12pm onwards. Details: Web: http://www.ukcia.org Tues Sep 28th: 71st Anniversary of the Prohibition of Cannabis in Britain. Actions throughout the country against "One of the biggest mistakes in British legal history". In London a 'Cannabis Wreath' will be laid in memory of all the 'drug war' victims in prisons throughout the world for cannabis (7000 in the UK, 30,000 in California etc). A petition will also be handed in to No 10 Downing Street. Also Howard Marks starts his UK tour in Glasgow, Scotland at the Caledonian University. Tour details: http://www.mrnice.co.uk/diary.htm Thurs Sep 30th: TV Broadcast: 'Herb 99'. TV Broadcast: 'Herb 99', Channel Four TV (1.30am). An cut and paste documentary of the Mayday cannabis march & event on Clapham Common plus pro and anti talking heads and acts from the day including Howard Marks and Mark Thomas. Middle England will hate it and maybe you will too. Note: Channel 4's lawyers said the film was "too pro cannabis" so broadcast was delayed to hack in the views of an ever deminishing minority - those who believe prohibition is working. Check out the new hemp documentary 'Emperor of Hemp' about Jack Herer (author of 'The Emperor Wears No Clothes' at: http://www.emperorofhemp.com November 5th - Lobby of Parliament for medical cannabis. Paul Flyn MP makes another attempt. Meet 12 noon. (At the last count he had 105 MPs supporting the bill). If you feel that Paul Flynn's bill to halt the prosecution of sick people who use cannabis should be heard this time, please write to your MP now at House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Latest news on the Bill's progress from http://www.paulflynnmp.co.uk This listing is updated online at http://www.schmoo.co.uk/free99.htm Information Lines: London: (0171 637 7467) . Norwich: (01603 625780) International Cannabis Coalition (UK), PO Box 2243, London, W1A 1YF. Voice: 0171 637 746. Fax: 0870 054 8646. E mail: free99@schmoo.co.uk . Press line: 020 7637 7467 "It is our moral and civic duty to oppose an unjust Law" - Martin Luther King . cannabis declaration - medical cannabis users guide - cannabis connections - cannabis network • famous cannabis users list • new deal for cannabis • ccnews • cannabis alliance - global connections • home affairs committee report • posters & banners • press/research info • press releases cannabis march & festival/coalition archives/ (1998 - 2005): Establishment of coalition Sep 1998 - Clapham Common 1999 - Brockwell Park 2000 - Brockwell Park 2001 - Brockwell Park 2002 - Trafalgar Square 2002 - Brockwell Park 2003 - Brockwell Park 2004. Press releases. reports, photographs. flyers. posters. stickers. "Britain should be less a nation of shoppers and become more a nation of gardeners." Mary Jane, coalition supporter. made in schmoo	global cannabis action

Press Release - Cannabis Coalition uk

August 1999 - No Victim - No Crime

'Free Cannabis Month' Sep 99

With the 71st anniversary of the prohibition of cannabis on Tuesday September 28th, and a medical cannabis bill due in Parliament on the 5th November, the next few weeks sees cannabis action nationwide in the UK.

"The prohibition of cannabis is one of the biggest mistakes in British legal history. It costs the British tax payer about one billion pounds a year to enforce, and after 71 years needs to be sorted out urgently" said a spokesperson for the Cannabis Coalition (UK) which has announced a 'Free Cannabis Month' of cannabis related events:

Every Saturday in September: 'Picnic' in Corporation Park, Blackburn, Lancashire (Home of Jack Straw M.P.). Also information stall in the town centre and from a shop right across the road from Blackburn Rovers FC (Jack's fav team!!!). People will be outside the games giving free cannabis info and stickers. Info/press contact: Dave@natrul.freeserve.co.uk

Bush Telegraph - cannabis magazine relaunched for September: Out now - contact Flatpress, PO Box 1221, Oxford, OX4 4WX. Tel: 01865 432739. email: bt@netmatters.co.uk . Also check out the latest issues of 'Weed World', 'High Times', 'Cannabis Culture' and the excellent uk cannabis monthly 'cc news'. For contacts see listings on web.

Thurs Sep 9th (9/9/99): Cannabis Prisoners Day. "There's people in jail!" - say organisers who are calling on supporters nationwide to " Do something high quality" on this unique date. Note: There are enough cannabis prisoners in the UK to fill four and a half typical sized prisons, plus there are over 72,000 arrests for cannabis every year.

Weds Sep 15th: TV Broadcast: 'Living with the Enemy', BBC 2. (9.00pm). The challenge is to live for a week with your complete opposite and if possible convert them to your view. In this film rabid anti cannabis person James Hellyer is 'anti-matched' with the 'Exodus Collective' for whom the cannabis herb is the 'healer of the nations' and an essential ingredient for the future survival of humanity. The plan was for them all to end up at the Mayday festival on Clapham Common but Hellyer lasts just four days and then went to the police to make a formal complaint. Rivetting viewing.

Friday - Sunday, Sept 17-19, 1999: Cannabusiness 1999. The 4th International 'CannaBusiness' trade show near Cologne, Germany, does not separate between "rope" and "dope". The world's biggest exhibition of cannabis and its products. For more information visit the Cannabusiness page at: http://www.cannabusiness.com

Sat Saturday Sep 18th: 'Healer of the Nations' march and one day cannabis festival. Wardown Park, Luton. Organised by the 'Campaign Against Narcotic Abuse Because of Ignorance in Society' (C.A.N.A.B.I.S), with Exodus and many others. Directions:off New Bedford Road, M1 Junction 10, into centre of Luton, pick up signs for A6, just past bridge on right hand side. Easy access from Luton Railway station & busses. More details & flyers: Canabis, C/o Haz Manor, 1-2 Bramingham Lane, Streatley, nr Luton, Beds, LU3 3NL. Phone: 01582 750727. E mail: exoduscollective @csi.com . More about the festival online at http://www.schmoo.co.uk/fest.htm

Sat Sep 25th: Smokey Bears Picnic - Free Cannabis In The Park '99 - Fully Liberated Cannabis Picnic, London. Starting at High Noon from Speakers Corner, Mr Free Rob Cannabis shall be presenting a talk about Cannabis Liberation. After the talk there will be a 'peace pipe ceremony'. Signatures will be collected for a petition asserting everyones basic human right to being allowed to cultivate and use the planet's most valuable plant; cannabis.

Details: CIA (Cannabis In Avalon), PO Box 2223, Glastonbury, BA6 9YU, England. Tel: 01458 833236. E mail: cannabisinfo@stones.com . Web: http://www.dicenews.com/hemp

Sat Sep 25th: Free Party, London. 'chimaera' present 'convention' two rooms of breakbeat & techno 10-6am, donations. Cannabis related info, hemp products, speakers, etc at Geneva's, Homerton . Ring for more info on 07932 441153 or e-mail us at: dancemental@hotmail.com

Sun Sep 26: Smokeys Bears Picnic, Norwich. Meet: Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich, 12pm onwards. Details: Web: http://www.ukcia.org

Tues Sep 28th: 71st Anniversary of the Prohibition of Cannabis in Britain. Actions throughout the country against "One of the biggest mistakes in British legal history". In London a 'Cannabis Wreath' will be laid in memory of all the 'drug war' victims in prisons throughout the world for cannabis (7000 in the UK, 30,000 in California etc). A petition will also be handed in to No 10 Downing Street. Also Howard Marks starts his UK tour in Glasgow, Scotland at the Caledonian University. Tour details: http://www.mrnice.co.uk/diary.htm

Thurs Sep 30th: TV Broadcast: 'Herb 99'. TV Broadcast: 'Herb 99', Channel Four TV (1.30am). An cut and paste documentary of the Mayday cannabis march & event on Clapham Common plus pro and anti talking heads and acts from the day including Howard Marks and Mark Thomas. Middle England will hate it and maybe you will too. Note: Channel 4's lawyers said the film was "too pro cannabis" so broadcast was delayed to hack in the views of an ever deminishing minority - those who believe prohibition is working. Check out the new hemp documentary 'Emperor of Hemp' about Jack Herer (author of 'The Emperor Wears No Clothes' at: http://www.emperorofhemp.com

November 5th - Lobby of Parliament for medical cannabis. Paul Flyn MP makes another attempt. Meet 12 noon. (At the last count he had 105 MPs supporting the bill). If you feel that Paul Flynn's bill to halt the prosecution of sick people who use cannabis should be heard this time, please write to your MP now at House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Latest news on the Bill's progress from http://www.paulflynnmp.co.uk

This listing is updated online at http://www.schmoo.co.uk/free99.htm

Information Lines: London: (0171 637 7467) . Norwich: (01603 625780)

International Cannabis Coalition (UK), PO Box 2243, London, W1A 1YF. Voice: 0171 637 746. Fax: 0870 054 8646. E mail: free99@schmoo.co.uk .

Press line: 020 7637 7467