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Press Release: 40 Year-old UK Drugs Charity RELEASE To Shut It's
Legalise Cannabis Alliance
Thursday 20 Sep 2007 In a letter published on the Legalise Cannabis Alliance Forum, Caroline Coon, artist and co-founder of the UK drug charity Release some 40 years ago, explains why she will not be helping to raise funds to save Release (1) From the letter: "My concern is the iniquity and misery caused to people and society by drugs prohibition. It is not Release as an organisation that matters. What matters are the terrible consequences of prohibition. The problem is that Release no longer campaigns to end prohibition. In fact, Release is colluding with prohibition. It pains me to say this but Release has degenerated into nothing more than a constituent of the drug prohibition industry. "If Release ceased functioning - or rather ceased malfunctioning - it would make no difference, it would not matter. Because Release has nothing interesting to say and nothing practical to offer to the thousands of people warned, cautioned, arrested and imprisoned for using or selling drugs, Release has no influence - no influence on Government and no influence in the media. The general public does not know that Release exists. Unfortunately no one, other than those who rely on Release for wages, would miss it." "Closing Release will remove a hollow shell of an organisation out of the path of any new group that might spring up run by young people for young people energetically campaigning to end the crime generating misery of prohibition." Don Barnard of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance, said: "Clearly Release has wasted a lot of money doing nothing towards its original aims 40 years ago.. to campaign for the ending prohibition." "What sickens me is The Legalise Cannabis Alliance and its supporters have been campaigning on a shoe-string to end prohibition for the last decade, individuals frequently using their own money for the campaign, not to mention risking health, arrest and imprisonment."....."Any rock stars or celebrities up for raising funds for the LCA." Editors notes THE PLIGHT OF RELEASE. By Caroline Coon. (1,000 words) http://www.lca-uk.org/lcaforum/viewtopic.php?t=7474 Release http://www.release.org.uk/ Press Office Legalise Cannabis Alliance PO BOX 2883 STOKE ON TRENT S74 9EE http://www.lca-uk.org publicrelation@lca-uk.org 07984 255015
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