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Press Release: Greener than Green Cannabis Legalise Cannabis Alliance Legalise Cannabis Alliance: Thursday 15 Mar 2007 Press Release: 15 March 2007: No Embargo Legalise Cannabis Alliance PO Box 2883 Stoke-on-Trent ST4 9EE http://ww.lca-uk.org The Legalise Cannabis Alliance have booked a stall at the Green Party Conference in Swansea on March 23 to 25, and will be speaking at a Fringe meeting in Branqwyn Hall on noon on the Saturday. Speakers will include long-term cannabis campaigner Alun Buffry and "Cannabis Gran" Pat Tabram, 68 and Shane Collins of the Green Party Drugs Group. Mrs Tabram was recently convicted of cultivating cannabis at Carlisle Crown Court and sentenced to 200 hours community service and ordered to pay £1000 court costs. Despite it being her second conviction, Pat insists that she will carry on using cannabis to relieve the symptoms of some dreadful illnesses from which she suffers. Alun Buffry,a spokesman for the LCA, said: "It's a dreadful situation when people are being prosecuted by our courts at public expense, for growing plant to ease their pains. I don't believe that was the intension of the Misuse of drugs Act or in the public interest". The Legalise Cannabis Alliance was a registered political party itself until November 2006, and fought for over 80 seats at local and national level. Mrs Tabram contested the seat of Neath for the Alliance, against Peter Hain, in 2005 Mr Buffry said: "I'm please that we will now have the opportunity to go and speak to political parties on their own turf, at their Conferences. The Green Party are the first to take advantage of this - and, after all, cannabis is a very green issue. "The cannabis campaign is not just about safe consumption for recreation but also human rights, medicine and health; it is about utilisation of the plant, aka hemp, for environmentally-friends production and use of fulls, oils, papers and building materials. "But none of that is very feasible so long as cannabis is banned and the question needs to be asked - what IS the intention of the law and has it worked? Is it about controlling people's choices, reducing damage, or preventing people from growing their own medicines at home?" NOTES FOR EDITORS: Pat Tabram news articles http://www.ccguide.org.uk/pattabram.php Cannabis Gran Website http://cannabisgran.co.uk/
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