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...AND FINALLY...

News just in from the big smoke that LibDem MP for Carshalton and Wallington, Tom Brake, has put forward a Private Members Bill to outlaw cannabis seeds. Will this germinate into the latest goverment attack on sacred 'erb?

After even the cops spoke out against the criminalisation of cannabis (saying it took precious police hours away from eating donuts and persecuting minorities), the government first dabbled in a bit of harmless decriminalisation before going back to the hard stuff – mainlining law ‘n’ order hysteria.

Need we say it here of course, it’s all pointless. Researchers, policy-makers and stoners alike all said exactly the same thing during the last ‘debate’: i.e. criminalised or not, it’ll make no difference to whether people choose to smoke. When it was decriminalised the numbers of people smoking went up by exactly 0%. Now it’s criminalised again, the number of puff-heads has gone down by, er the same.

What’s needed is a mass campaign of spontaneous and organised action on the part of the pro-hemp community. A radical campaign of direct skinning-up action, converging on a sit, lie and slouch-in at Westminster. A carnival for dope, possibly sponsored by Dorritos, culminating in a blockade of bong-smokers outside parliament; the chants of “We shall not be moved - we can’t be arsed, and “Whose treats? Our treats?” resonating around central London. Er, OK...it’s stoners we’re talking about here: more likely is a mass sit-in...an-armchair...

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