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cannabiscoalition.org archive of the cannabis coalition (uk)	Press Release - Cannabis Coalition uk/ International Cannabis Coalition Cannabis Carnival Timetable: London Sat June 16, 2001. great plant - crazy law. • 12 noon - Carnival March to End the Prohibition of Cannabis: Assemble in Kennington Park - Oval Tube. Departs 1.00 pm sharp to Brockwell Park, Brixton. Sound system floats by Lloyd Coxsone & Sunnyside plus samba band & puppets (including Ann Widdecombe). Bring spirit, humour, banners, drums, your voice, to celebrate, remonstrate and 'dance on the grave of Cannabis Prohibition' through Brixton to the Cannabis Freedom Festival. Everyone counts. • 2 pm - 8.00pm - Cannabis Freedom Festival, Brockwell Park, Brixton: Free (99p) entrance for bands, sound systems, food, drink and cannabis related stalls including hemp beer, hemp ice cream, Hemp Expo, Medical Cannabis Marquee, clothes, speakers tent, amazing kids area, comedy, performers, information and celebration. Everyone invited. ................................................... Cannabis Festival Programme: Brockwell Park, Brixton. (Victoria Line tube) • BANDS & PERFORMERS: A massive celebration of Hemp and Marijuana from all cultures of the UK. Art, music, performance, information and celebration. Four live stages + nine sound system venues. Confirmed so far: @ UNITY STAGE - NUCLEUS ROOTS (1.30 &endash; 2.30) + GREENMAN &endash; Ganja Hip Hopera (2.35 &endash; 2.45) - HEADMIX &endash; Phenomenal festival champions (2.45&endash;3.30) + PAIN - Punk Ganja Activists with HOWARD MARKS (3.45 &endash; 4.30) + ROJER WILLIAMS (4.30 &endash; 4.45) + LOVEGROCER featuring Cheshire Cats from Leftfield (4.45 &endash; 5.20) + BURY CRU - unusual suspects + MDC + Mike G Elc + Senser Kid & Intence + MUD FAMILY (5.20 - 6) + 'One Minutes Silence' for Cannabis Prisoners Worldwide (6.00pm) + TOP CATS (6.15 &endash; 7) + ALABAMA 3 (7.15 &endash; 8.15). Special thanks: Wango Riley stage (it's first outing). Special guests: Tom Cunstanton from the 'Greatful Dead', Lloyd Coxsone (sound system pioneer, rasta community leader) + speakers including Lord Anthony Gifford Q.C. (human rights lawyer), Caroline Coon (artist, founder Release) + prize giving. COMPERES - MR MAT FRASER & MR TIMMY WOBBLE. @ BRIXTON STAGE - Tarantism / HEADJAM + PROWEZZ (12-1pm): + RED ROUTE (1.15-2pm) KALABAN Acoustic soul (2.15-3pm) + JIMMY CHIROZA (3-3.15pm) :+@ : SYLAANS (3.15-4pm) + :TENPOLE TUDOR Seminal Punkstar (4.15-5pm) : CYBERDELIKS (5-5.15pm): HEADJAM (5.15-6pm) +@ : MATT FRASER (6-6.15pm) : DATABASS (6.15-7pm) + TARANTISM - (7.15-8pm). @ DR AGON STAGE - DECKNOLOGY + LUNARTISTS + MR SKILLS + THE STUFF + GYGANCMACHY + NOVA + CREDIT + KID SUDA + DONS OF QUIXOTE + ALICE & DAVID + BABY GEE & ASK + ABDULLAH THE RAINBOW MAN. DJ's: Katie & Nicola. @ KINGSTONE SOUND NETWORK - Zibbers -1pm (electric weirdness from Guildford), Da Vinci Dub Sound System - 2.20pm (dub DJ + live singer). Blatently - 3.30pm (Bonzo mish-mash of funk-dub-soul-psychedelia-danceability). Chihuahua Zycantah - 4.50pm (Ferocious spiky punk/dub/electro-noise). Less- 6pm (Classic punk tunes ie "Only Users Lose Drugs" with PAIN/Headjam crew). Aliens in the Whitehouse - 7.20pm (live drum & bass, sample madness & 'techno?' guitar!) . 'Maridala' poster image by Jamie Reid. ................................................... • SOUND SYSTEMS - e x t r a v a g a n j a sound clash - 100s of respected dj's across all forms: @ SQUALL - house-drum & bass-nu-funk. @ RDK HI-FI - heavy weight dub & high grade roots and culture with special guests. @ chimaera - chimaera's progressive house & tech tribe team up with Groove Asylum, Lunatik Fringe, & Bi-polar - live. @ femi-9 product - gurly beatz of a garage and d&b nature. @ SUNNYSIDE - Bristol based progressive house beats & march sound system. @ TROJAN &endash; up front house-drum & bass. @ RESTLESS NATIVES - TRANCENTRAL meets ACCESS ALL AREAS @ the home of london's underground trance/techno scene. @ PIRATE TV & AARDVARK - live internet streaming visuals and eclectic beats from the heart of brixton and beyond. @ NEGUSA NEGAST - conscious dub deepness. @ RINKY DINK &endash; pedal powered super sounds. ................................................... • SPEAKERS TENT - a full days programme of speakers, panels, debates with: Caroline Coon (artist, founder of Release), Howard Marks (Mr Nice, above), Colin Davis (medical marijuana coop), Lloyd Coxsone (sound system pioneer, rasta community leader), Lord Anthony Gifford Q.C. (human rights lawyer, arriving straight off a plane from Jamacia having given expert evidence to the Jamaican National Ganja Commission), Tony Taylor (medical marijuana therapist), Sister Sharon, (First Vice President, Ethiopian World Federation), Shane Collins (Green Party Drugs Spokesperson), Steve Pank (Campaign To Legalise Cannabis International Association) Matthew Atha (Independent Drug Monitoring Unit), Dana Beal ('Cures Not Wars', New York), Peter Tatchell (gay activist), Ana Lopes (sex worker/activist), Nick Red Eye (editor Red Eye magazine), Rasta Brown (rastafarian human rights defendent), Lyndon Pugh (editor cc news), Tuppy Owens (author/activist), Roger Warren Evans (Liberty), Andy Cornwell (coalition lawyer), Roger Bunn (musician, MIHRA), Ben Cooper (human rights barrister), Steve Ashe (Dionysian Underground), Carl Wagner (Hull, LCA election candidate, event organiser), Dublin reps, (cannabis coalition), "Anonymous" on why she's scared to come out, Anthony Goodman (Psychonauts UK), Raja Mohammed Sajid (Green Party), Beth Kolomeitz (So High Soho), Free Rob Cannabis (activist), Tim Summers (cannabis march sep 29th), Jerry Ham (human rights activist), XX (tbc) (grower of strongest THC content plant ever busted in the UK), Chris Sanders (cannabis coalition) plus several Legalise Cannabis Alliance candidates, Dublin Cannabis Action rep and special guests to be confirmed + during the day we will be phoning up people in some of the 130 cities involved in the recent May 5th global cannabis action. + live music: Mr Timiweed - rappa, poet lyricist. ROJER WILLIAMS, Brixton singer-songwriter. QUILOMBO DE SAMBA &endash; Superb Brazilian Samba Band. KAKATSITSI - Amazing Ghanaian Drummers. MUKKA &endash; Finest Romany Dance. Book signings by Eric, author of 'Cooking with Ganja' & Rojer Williams 'brixton cockney yardie' author of 'Council Flat Paradise'. Cannabis carnival 'maridala' posters signed by Jamie Reid. Green powered sound system by Rainbow Dragon pa. Vegan cafe, chill space & info stall by Lambeth Green Party. ................................................... • POETS FOR POT - • POETS FOR POT• ALIVE & REMIXED - POETS & MUSIC FOR POT TENT - Inspired Poetry slam (2-4.30pm) - Introduced By Mary McCarthy - With Steve Tasane - Steve Medeema - Rebecca Sabin - Peter Kraus - Michael Horovitz - Frederica Venn - Vic Lambrusco - Simon Barcode - Graham Reeves - Paul Lyalls - Ferance - Mr Dare - Niall McDevitt - John Constable + The Amanzi Project (African Poetry, Dance & Drums on @ 3.15pm) & others tbc ! MUSIC/BANDS (4.30-8pm) - Live music by; Solar Quest (to 5pm) + Lidj Jan Hoy & The Seal of Rastafari (5-5.30pm) + 7619 (5.30-6pm) + Vibronics & Jah Free + Mc Richi Rootz (6.10-7.10pm) + the Ledgendary 'Trojans' (7.10-8pm) + Live Outdoor Fire Dancers by Nebula. Food: The Mission Cafe. Sound by: Entropica Sound System. Co-Ordinated By Debs Elemental. email debs@schmoo.co.uk Poets for Pot + poems including 'John Sinclair' poem song by John Lennon - www.schmoo.co.uk/potpoets.htm ................................................... • HEMP EXPO - Hemp related stalls, exhibits, hands on arts and crafts workshops, speakers & music + 'Hemp Cinema' showing films all day including footage from the march & festival. Speakers include: Sue Riddleston (Bio Regional Development Group) on Hemp as a Bio Regional Resource. Dereck Bielby (Hemp Union) taking about processing the seed into oil and cosmetics and the stalk into a variety of products including fabric, plastic and fibre board. Tania Lowry (Mother Hemp) discussing 'FIN314' the hemp seed which is claimed to have superior nutritional qualities but is not recognised by the UK Government (only 7 varieties are). Steve Rowan (Hemp Garden) on the benefits of using hemp lotions and potions to heal the body and feed the skin. Paul Dean (Hemp Union Foods) on nutritional uses of hemp seeds and oil in the diet. 'Modece Architects' will have a display documenting their work building hemp and lime houses in the Uk. 'House of Hemp' will be showing a wide range of fabrics, from the finest hemp silk mixes to 100% linen and heavy-weight canvas. 'Undercurrents', the award winning alternative news service will be screening video features from the march and festival. http://www.schmoo.co.uk/hempexpo.htm ................................................... • MEDICAL CANNABIS MARQUEE - medical cannabis related displays by the 'Medical Cannabis Cooperative' and 'Tonys Hemp Corner' with information, medical cannabis clinic, free consultations, exhibits, workshops, speakers. ................................................... • AFTER PARTIES - several all night events are happening - more details. 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Press Release - Cannabis Coalition uk/ International Cannabis Coalition

Cannabis Carnival Timetable: London Sat June 16, 2001. great plant - crazy law.

• 12 noon - Carnival March to End the Prohibition of Cannabis: Assemble in Kennington Park - Oval Tube. Departs 1.00 pm sharp to Brockwell Park, Brixton. Sound system floats by Lloyd Coxsone & Sunnyside plus samba band & puppets (including Ann Widdecombe). Bring spirit, humour, banners, drums, your voice, to celebrate, remonstrate and 'dance on the grave of Cannabis Prohibition' through Brixton to the Cannabis Freedom Festival. Everyone counts.

• 2 pm - 8.00pm - Cannabis Freedom Festival, Brockwell Park, Brixton: Free (99p) entrance for bands, sound systems, food, drink and cannabis related stalls including hemp beer, hemp ice cream, Hemp Expo, Medical Cannabis Marquee, clothes, speakers tent, amazing kids area, comedy, performers, information and celebration. Everyone invited.

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Cannabis Festival Programme: Brockwell Park, Brixton. (Victoria Line tube)

• BANDS & PERFORMERS: A massive celebration of Hemp and Marijuana from all cultures of the UK. Art, music, performance, information and celebration. Four live stages + nine sound system venues. Confirmed so far:

@ UNITY STAGE - NUCLEUS ROOTS (1.30 &endash; 2.30) + GREENMAN &endash; Ganja Hip Hopera (2.35 &endash; 2.45) - HEADMIX &endash; Phenomenal festival champions (2.45&endash;3.30) + PAIN - Punk Ganja Activists with HOWARD MARKS (3.45 &endash; 4.30) + ROJER WILLIAMS (4.30 &endash; 4.45) + LOVEGROCER featuring Cheshire Cats from Leftfield (4.45 &endash; 5.20) + BURY CRU - unusual suspects + MDC + Mike G Elc + Senser Kid & Intence + MUD FAMILY (5.20 - 6) + 'One Minutes Silence' for Cannabis Prisoners Worldwide (6.00pm) + TOP CATS (6.15 &endash; 7) + ALABAMA 3 (7.15 &endash; 8.15). Special thanks: Wango Riley stage (it's first outing). Special guests: Tom Cunstanton from the 'Greatful Dead', Lloyd Coxsone (sound system pioneer, rasta community leader) + speakers including Lord Anthony Gifford Q.C. (human rights lawyer), Caroline Coon (artist, founder Release) + prize giving. COMPERES - MR MAT FRASER & MR TIMMY WOBBLE.

@ BRIXTON STAGE - Tarantism / HEADJAM + PROWEZZ (12-1pm): + RED ROUTE (1.15-2pm) KALABAN Acoustic soul (2.15-3pm) + JIMMY CHIROZA (3-3.15pm) :+@ : SYLAANS (3.15-4pm) + :TENPOLE TUDOR Seminal Punkstar (4.15-5pm) : CYBERDELIKS (5-5.15pm): HEADJAM (5.15-6pm) +@ : MATT FRASER (6-6.15pm) : DATABASS (6.15-7pm) + TARANTISM - (7.15-8pm).

@ DR AGON STAGE - DECKNOLOGY + LUNARTISTS + MR SKILLS + THE STUFF + GYGANCMACHY + NOVA + CREDIT + KID SUDA + DONS OF QUIXOTE + ALICE & DAVID + BABY GEE & ASK + ABDULLAH THE RAINBOW MAN. DJ's: Katie & Nicola.

@ KINGSTONE SOUND NETWORK - Zibbers -1pm (electric weirdness from Guildford), Da Vinci Dub Sound System - 2.20pm (dub DJ + live singer). Blatently - 3.30pm (Bonzo mish-mash of funk-dub-soul-psychedelia-danceability). Chihuahua Zycantah - 4.50pm (Ferocious spiky punk/dub/electro-noise). Less- 6pm (Classic punk tunes ie "Only Users Lose Drugs" with PAIN/Headjam crew). Aliens in the Whitehouse - 7.20pm (live drum & bass, sample madness & 'techno?' guitar!) . 'Maridala' poster image by Jamie Reid.

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• SOUND SYSTEMS - e x t r a v a g a n j a sound clash - 100s of respected dj's across all forms:

@ SQUALL - house-drum & bass-nu-funk. @ RDK HI-FI - heavy weight dub & high grade roots and culture with special guests.

@ chimaera - chimaera's progressive house & tech tribe team up with Groove Asylum, Lunatik Fringe, & Bi-polar - live. @ femi-9 product - gurly beatz of a garage and d&b nature. @ SUNNYSIDE - Bristol based progressive house beats & march sound system. @ TROJAN &endash; up front house-drum & bass. @ RESTLESS NATIVES - TRANCENTRAL meets ACCESS ALL AREAS @ the home of london's underground trance/techno scene. @ PIRATE TV & AARDVARK - live internet streaming visuals and eclectic beats from the heart of brixton and beyond. @ NEGUSA NEGAST - conscious dub deepness. @ RINKY DINK &endash; pedal powered super sounds.

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• SPEAKERS TENT - a full days programme of speakers, panels, debates with: Caroline Coon (artist, founder of Release), Howard Marks (Mr Nice, above), Colin Davis (medical marijuana coop), Lloyd Coxsone (sound system pioneer, rasta community leader), Lord Anthony Gifford Q.C. (human rights lawyer, arriving straight off a plane from Jamacia having given expert evidence to the Jamaican National Ganja Commission), Tony Taylor (medical marijuana therapist), Sister Sharon, (First Vice President, Ethiopian World Federation), Shane Collins (Green Party Drugs Spokesperson), Steve Pank (Campaign To Legalise Cannabis International Association) Matthew Atha (Independent Drug Monitoring Unit), Dana Beal ('Cures Not Wars', New York), Peter Tatchell (gay activist), Ana Lopes (sex worker/activist), Nick Red Eye (editor Red Eye magazine), Rasta Brown (rastafarian human rights defendent), Lyndon Pugh (editor cc news), Tuppy Owens (author/activist), Roger Warren Evans (Liberty), Andy Cornwell (coalition lawyer), Roger Bunn (musician, MIHRA), Ben Cooper (human rights barrister), Steve Ashe (Dionysian Underground), Carl Wagner (Hull, LCA election candidate, event organiser), Dublin reps, (cannabis coalition), "Anonymous" on why she's scared to come out, Anthony Goodman (Psychonauts UK), Raja Mohammed Sajid (Green Party), Beth Kolomeitz (So High Soho), Free Rob Cannabis (activist), Tim Summers (cannabis march sep 29th), Jerry Ham (human rights activist), XX (tbc) (grower of strongest THC content plant ever busted in the UK), Chris Sanders (cannabis coalition) plus several Legalise Cannabis Alliance candidates, Dublin Cannabis Action rep and special guests to be confirmed + during the day we will be phoning up people in some of the 130 cities involved in the recent May 5th global cannabis action. + live music: Mr Timiweed - rappa, poet lyricist. ROJER WILLIAMS, Brixton singer-songwriter. QUILOMBO DE SAMBA &endash; Superb Brazilian Samba Band. KAKATSITSI - Amazing Ghanaian Drummers. MUKKA &endash; Finest Romany Dance. Book signings by Eric, author of 'Cooking with Ganja' & Rojer Williams 'brixton cockney yardie' author of 'Council Flat Paradise'. Cannabis carnival 'maridala' posters signed by Jamie Reid. Green powered sound system by Rainbow Dragon pa. Vegan cafe, chill space & info stall by Lambeth Green Party.

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• POETS FOR POT - • POETS FOR POT• ALIVE & REMIXED - POETS & MUSIC FOR POT TENT - Inspired Poetry slam (2-4.30pm) - Introduced By Mary McCarthy - With Steve Tasane - Steve Medeema - Rebecca Sabin - Peter Kraus - Michael Horovitz - Frederica Venn - Vic Lambrusco - Simon Barcode - Graham Reeves - Paul Lyalls - Ferance - Mr Dare - Niall McDevitt - John Constable + The Amanzi Project (African Poetry, Dance & Drums on @ 3.15pm) & others tbc ! MUSIC/BANDS (4.30-8pm) - Live music by; Solar Quest (to 5pm) + Lidj Jan Hoy & The Seal of Rastafari (5-5.30pm) + 7619 (5.30-6pm) + Vibronics & Jah Free + Mc Richi Rootz (6.10-7.10pm) + the Ledgendary 'Trojans' (7.10-8pm) + Live Outdoor Fire Dancers by Nebula. Food: The Mission Cafe. Sound by: Entropica Sound System. Co-Ordinated By Debs Elemental. email debs@schmoo.co.uk Poets for Pot + poems including 'John Sinclair' poem song by John Lennon - www.schmoo.co.uk/potpoets.htm

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• HEMP EXPO - Hemp related stalls, exhibits, hands on arts and crafts workshops, speakers & music + 'Hemp Cinema' showing films all day including footage from the march & festival. Speakers include: Sue Riddleston (Bio Regional Development Group) on Hemp as a Bio Regional Resource. Dereck Bielby (Hemp Union) taking about processing the seed into oil and cosmetics and the stalk into a variety of products including fabric, plastic and fibre board. Tania Lowry (Mother Hemp) discussing 'FIN314' the hemp seed which is claimed to have superior nutritional qualities but is not recognised by the UK Government (only 7 varieties are). Steve Rowan (Hemp Garden) on the benefits of using hemp lotions and potions to heal the body and feed the skin. Paul Dean (Hemp Union Foods) on nutritional uses of hemp seeds and oil in the diet. 'Modece Architects' will have a display documenting their work building hemp and lime houses in the Uk. 'House of Hemp' will be showing a wide range of fabrics, from the finest hemp silk mixes to 100% linen and heavy-weight canvas. 'Undercurrents', the award winning alternative news service will be screening video features from the march and festival. http://www.schmoo.co.uk/hempexpo.htm

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• MEDICAL CANNABIS MARQUEE - medical cannabis related displays by the 'Medical Cannabis Cooperative' and 'Tonys Hemp Corner' with information, medical cannabis clinic, free consultations, exhibits, workshops, speakers.

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• AFTER PARTIES - several all night events are happening - more details.

Press line: 020 7637 7467