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UK: Cannabis Man Joins The Poll

Southern Daily Echo

Wednesday 12 Apr 2000

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A CANNABIS smoker with a criminal record for cultivating cannabis plants
is to stand as a candidate in the Romsey by-election.

Derrick Large, 40, a pipe-fitter from Kings Somborne, is running as a
candidate for the Legalise Cannabis Alliance which was registered as a
political party ahead of the European elections last year.

Its emblem, which will appear on the ballot paper, is a cannabis leaf.
Mr Large said he smoked cannabis for medical purposes and had done so
for 20 years.

He said: "Cannabis culture has arrived in Britain, and is now as
integral part of our society, which won't disappear, despite, or because
of, legal sanctions."

Mr Large, who grew up in Chandler's Ford, spent many years working at
Fawley Oil Refinery. The Legalise Cannabis Alliance contested five
seats in Norwich last year and entered a candidate in the Kensington and
Chelsea by-election. Howard Marks, convicted cannabis smuggler, stood
as a legalise cannabis candidate in the general election in 1997 in
Southampton Test.

 

 

 

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