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It s the cannabis battle bus
Evening News and Star, Cumbria Sunday 13 May 2001 Legalise Cannabis Alliance candidate Mark Gibson launched his campaign for the Penrith and the Border seat at the weekend - from an F-reg Nissan Bluebird. Mr Gibson said the launch timing was prompted by seeing TV footage of Tony Blair's campaign bus broken down at the roadside. "There was that huge piece of expense doing nothing," said Mr Gibson, from Alston. "We haven't got the funds for a bus." Instead Mr Gibson has put Alliance logos on two cars being used for his campaign, and is asking supporters to wave or flash their lights and to put cannabis leaf posters in their windows. Mr Gibson hopes to meet other candidates head-on, and has already been offered meeting space in Alston. "I want to discuss policies with a positive approach, not get into a slanging match," he said. The health benefits of cannabis are at the heart of his campaign. Mr Gibson's wife Lezley, an MS sufferer, was cleared of possessing the drug last year after a jury decided she was entitled to smoke it on medical grounds. But the Alliance is also fighting on a wide range of cannabis-related issues such as human rights, the environment, agriculture and law and order. "I understand it takes 10 hours of police time to caution someone for petty possession," said Mr Gibson. "This is a complete waste of time when the police could be making the streets safe for our grandparents to walk back from bingo."
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