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Carlisle

Colin Paisley

Election Communication

Wednesday 06 Jun 2001

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My name is Colin Paisley and I am your Legalise Cannabis Alliance candidate
for Carlisle. I consider cannabis to be a mainstream issue encompassing legal
and human rights, therapeutic rights, spiritual rights and the environment.
The cannabis issue has important effects on many aspects of life and I am
prepared to try to answer all your questions.

I entered the cannabis debate quite late in life - I am now 64 - through a
friend who started to use it to help alleviate some of the symptoms of
Multiple Sclerosis. Through contact with her, I began to question the myths
surrounding cannabis use as well as prohibition. I began to realise that the
ineffective law banning cannabis is far from being in the public interest. It
is a waste of public money and resources. Not only has prohibition proven to
be ineffectual at preventing the rise in drug use throughout society but it
effectively prevents access to an efficient medicinal plant, limits the choice
of religion and lifestyle, and enables huge profits to be made from synthetic
and polluting alternatives such as fossil and nuclear fuels, plastics and
dangerous drugs. This law punishes people for crimes that have no victims.

I served on Carlisle City Council for thirteen years and was Mayor of Carlisle
from 1994 to 1995, representing the Labour Party. I resigned from the Labour
Party in 1999 being totally disillusioned with their lack of any sensible
drugs policy. I became drugs spokesperson for the Liberal Party, who endorse
my stand for the Legalise Cannabis Alliance.

If elected I would put the interests of the people of Carlisle first.

Your sincerely

Colin Paisley

 

 

 

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