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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 07:19 AM
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Cannabis downgraded in the UK TODAY !! Hip Hip Hooray!
How totally excellent. The day has come. Cannabis smokers all over the UK are lighting up today knowing their life and liberty is "LESS" at risk from the evil drugs police than yesterday. Cannabis cafe's in several cities are opening today to challenge the law further and push the envelope with civil disobedience. This is a HUGE victory for cannabis smokers as it is defacto decrmininalization, and the end of an active war to fuck up 3 million british folks who's only crime in life is not smoking tobacco. :) :) Yahoo!! :)

Some background for those unaware:
http://www.nature.com/nsu/040126/040126-11.html
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La_Serpiente Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 07:20 AM
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1. SWEEEEET
I have to tell my brother. He will be going there in March.
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Terwilliger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 07:22 AM
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2. Once again, world governments make sensible drug policies...
Edited on Thu Jan-29-04 07:22 AM by Terwilliger
and the US is spending millions on anti-marijuana television ads :crazy:
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Wonco_the_Sane Donating Member (381 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 07:25 AM
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3. Ya Mon.
Decriminalization is the answer.
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FreeperSlayer Donating Member (666 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 08:22 AM
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4. Uh, the police are planning...
....on enforcing the pot laws. All they changed was the classification; the existing laws are still in full-effect.
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 08:45 AM
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5. The police are...
not arresting for posession and advised not to except under obvious cases like smoking near playgrounds and things that only dumb smokers would bother doing.

Hell, i don't go down to the steps of parliament to smoke, rather in my bedroom with my partner before voracious sex!! :)

The police are indeed (especially in scotland) on about how they're going to enforce it the same... but then, once it hits the courtroom on a case, unlikely to be myself, and morelikely to be that of an edinburgh cannabis civil disobedient... the law change will move.

The police don't want to bother with cannabis, hell half the impetus for the change was from police distracted from more serious crime, property crime and violent crime, bothering their hours busting a nonviolent weed smoker. What a waste, they know the score.

Its a victory. This is day 1. You'll see. The dam has burst.
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jonoboy Donating Member (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 08:58 AM
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6. ""3 million british folks ""?..surely many more than that !
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 09:27 AM
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7. Its 30 Million Brits who toke.
From The Mynah Manga
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 11:07 AM
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10. i've heard between 5 and 7 million
out of 65 million including northern ireland and scotland. Because there is no 5th amendment, anyone who says they smoke can actually be tried on that evidence... so nobody will confess, and the numbers will stay bogus until it is legallized, or until the human rights statutes overturn the draconian self incrimination law.

The goverment (uk) has been criminalizing and waging a war against 10% of their population for decades, and they wonder why nobody respects them? Geez, thats not hard. What a bunch of dumb asses. Nobody gives a hoot about blairism and politics because it is a lie... and when they encounter the truth, they want to repress it and put it in prison.
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Oggy Donating Member (652 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 11:50 AM
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12. Don't forget
my post to you other day Sweetheart, be careful what area you are in. The Cops have still has different responses in different areas. The big cities and middle of nowhere are OK, but watch out in the shires. I come from Shropshire originally, and I know they will still treat it seriously there. Happy spliffing though.
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 02:52 PM
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13. thanks oggy
No problemo. To be frank, i'm just an occasional smoker. To be outspoken about cannabis legallization and smoking at the same time is a good way to get sacked and in jail. Rather i'm an advocate of justice where if the police show up at my house, and look through everything, they'll find nothing but those blasted mouse poops i did not vacuum up on the top of the kitchen cabinet.

Cannabis is part of my religious practices. I've made several pilgrimages in my life to the ganges in india where sadhu's smoke vast amounts of cannabis and have visions of shiva. I too see cannabis as a holy weed, one to be used sparingly. My defense in a courtroom for smoking weed is freedom of religion. Whats the matter with practicing Shiivite Hindu yoga? The criminalization of mind altering drugs is based on racism and hate of non-white culture. More than that, it is driven by the mentality that the state of mind most people live in during the day is more "sane" than i am when stoned... and i think not.

Civil disobedience is to claim the right to smoke the weed even if you don't.
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ncrainbowgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 09:40 AM
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8. Congrats to those who this effects!
While I don't smoke, I have many friends who do-


over the years, I've come to the conclusion that with all of the terrible problems/criminal behaviors in the world, there's not much sense in making cannabis use a crime. Wouldn't the money spent enforcing this be better spent... Oh... Anywhere else?

Sorry- probably not making much sense. I'm so tired. Couldn't sleep at all last night and can't keep my eyes open this morning
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angryblackmale Donating Member (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 09:50 AM
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9. Great! nice to see progression in the world!
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Sophree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 11:44 AM
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11. Excellent!
Very good news!

Yes, you are right, sweetheart- (Most) Cops do not want to be wasting their time on enforcing marijuana prohibition laws, when they could be protecting the community from REAL crime.

This is fantastic victory for drug law reform!
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 07:48 PM
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14. three people arrested in edinburgh
for cannabis posession at the purple haze cannabis cafe, just opened today. These civil disobedients are the heros of the day in scotland. When interviewed on BBC radio, the cafe owner said that cannabis cut across class boundaries and was a peaceful pastime of people across the social and economic spectrum of the UK.

Good for him. To all who fight for freedom and liberty, you have the blessings of God. Surely were jesus christ alive today, he would champion the disenfranchised, like he did in his own day, and that would certainly include drugs takers.

Jesus is with you.
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