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UK: Future Cannabis Cafe Ready
The Worthing Herald
Thursday 04 Jul 2002 The back room of the Bong Chuffa shop, in Rowlands Road,Worthing, is being converted into a cafe by campaigners anticipating legalisation of the class B drug. Chris Baldwin, East Worthing Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA) candidate in the last general election, is at the heart of the project. "We're building a coffee shop here for the future when the laws change we will have everything in place," said Chris. "Once we've got it built out the back, you can call that my folly. I can theme my back room any way I like. It would be a working coffee shop, ready in place. "Police can come down and have a look. What we are selling in the store is completely legal. If we're not selling it, someone else will. We are not exclusive in the world." Chris, who went to Amsterdam in April for a course on how to run a cannabis cafe, featured in a number of Herald stories following Home Secretary David Blunkett's proposed relaxation of cannabis laws. "The LCA in Worthing actually stayed quiet for a while," said Chris. "We had done all the interviews, said everything we were going to say and people were asking when will we open a coffee shop? "Well, we're doing it now. The biggest enquiries so far have been whether we have got any cannabis to sell. Of course, we say 'No'." Talking about the store, he said: "Bong Chuffa is about the campaign and about us. Obviously we have to make money to eat and pay the rent, but it's not about making money, it's a community project. All the work that's been done has been done by friends for free. "The coffee shop itself, in my opinion, is democracy. It will win the day. Democracy is the will of the people. Those who are against legalisation better speak up now because so many are speaking for it."
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