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Standing up for natural beneficial herb
East Anglian Daily Times
Monday 21 May 2001 Website: http://www.suffolk-now.co.uk/ Author: Roddy Ashworth A DISABLED man who smokes pot because he says conventional drugs do not help with his medical condition is to stand as an election candidate in West Chelmsford for the legalise Cannabis Alliance. Father of two Christopher Philbin, who lives in Hatfield Peverel suffers from arthritis and a Neurogical condition that can cause pain and seizures He found conventional prescribed drugs gave him unpleasant side effects, such as depression and anxiety. The 31-year old, who is also known as 'Herb', then discovered using cannabis not only helps relieve his symptoms, but did not have the side-effects. However, Mr Philbin also believes cannabis should be legal for recreational use: "God gave it to us - it out of the floor, it's natural, it makes people happy and it has no side effects. "If you can't make a decision about using a beneficial herb in today's society, how can you make a decision on anything?" Mr Philbin said other drug such as ecstasy should also be lawfully available. "I think we should have something in place like they do in Holland, where if you're going to take a drug like Ecstasy, you can get hold of it knowing its been tested for poisons and strength," he said. "I believe the only reason people die after taking Ecstasy - and there aren't that many of them considering how many people use it - is because of drug ignorance. Because it's illegal, people take a pill 'without knowing how strong it is or what's in it. "There are far more lives claimed by alcohol and tobacco every year, but that's allowed because it's socially acceptable and the Government makes money from it?' Mr Philbin said he was standing for Parliament because he was fed up with what he calls "armchair anarchists". He said: "Everybody sits around on a Friday night getting stoned and just talks about this being wrong and that being wrong and how they could put the world to rights. "So I decided to stand up and try to do it. Everything in society is so selfish now. Everybody is worried about owning things and money, when there are children starving to death on the other side of the world "I'm not anti-capitalist, the world needs to ran. But it needs to get its priorities right. William Hague said at the Conservative Conference last year that the Houses of Parliament should have representatives from every community. Well they aren't representing the cannabis community - they reckon there's six million people using the drug regularly and that 80% of people have tried it" Also standing in Chelmsford West are Eleanor Burgess (Green), Simon Burns (Con), Adrian longden Stephen Robinson (Lib Dem) and Ken Wedon UKIP.
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