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Progress Report - March 2002
Alun BUffry LCA
Sunday 31 Mar 2002 In March, we gained 65 new endorsees, bringing the total to 1332 The Legalise Cannabis on-line petition now has well over 7000 signatures. PRESS AND LETTERS PUBLISHED: (places after a person's name indicate constituency where he/ she stood at the General Election 2001) - DON BARNARD, LCA Press Officer, has provided a report of his busy month: - 12 March, interviewed on Radio Manchester - 19 March: appeared with Patman Denning (Milton Keynes SW) on BBC News Look East talking about UK cannabis cafes. Also Edited version on 18-30 evening bulletin. - BBC Essex "drive time" - early morning news bulletin for commuters - re: testing control. - BBC Radio Essex Phone in - Dave Monk show - Re - Standing for Local election - Interviewed by Dream FM - local Chelmsford Radio - Radio chat in on BBC Radio Essex - Dave Monk show - re International agreements - 21 March: Interviewed by Essex FM - broadcast on hourly news bulletins from 3 pm to midnight - re: Some police already ignore cannabis in Essex. - Also had a debate on BBC Radio Tyneside With Tiggy May co-author of The Roundtree Foundation Report. - Interviewed by Essex Evening Gazette Article published 21/03/02 - Interviewed by Essex Chronicle Article print 22/03/02 - Interview with East Anglian Daily Times re - coffee shops. Article published 22/03/02 - Interview by Brighton & Hove local paper - passed him to Jerry Ham - resulted in good article - although it had couple of mistakes about sentencing.. - Interviewed by East London and Essex Courier - Phone call from CNN News passed to Chris Baldwin (appeared on CNN News on March 29) - Interview with Chelmsford Yellow Advertiser - published article not seen yet. I also had various interviews from other media sources and managed to put many others in contact with people who have specialist knowledge ALUN BUFFRY, National Coordinator, gave the following interviews with the press: - 7 March: telephone interview with BUPA magazine. - ? March: Interview by East London and Essex Courier. - 20 March: telephone interview with the Sunday Times. - 27 March: telephone interview with Home and Country, the magazine of the Women's Institute. - 27 March: telephone interview with Anthony Browne of The Observer LETTERS: 18 March: East Anglian Daily Times, "MP's Stand Over Cannabis Is Unreal" by Don Barnard http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n521.a05.html with reference to http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n442.a05.html 21 March: Carl Wagner (Hull North) letter published in the Hull Daily Mail http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n529.a05.html 21 March: Chris Philbin (Chelmsford West) and Don Barnard (Braintree locals) had comments published in article "County's First Cannabis Cafe Scheme" in the Essex Evening Gazette, about Chris' plans to open a cannabis cafe in Witham in Essex. http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n534.a01.html 22 March: Chris Philbin (Chelmsford West) quoted in East Anglian Daily Times in front page article: "Cannabis Cafe Plans Slammed By Mother" http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n534.a13.html 23 March: Patman Denning (Milton Keynes South West) took part in a Cable radio debate 25 March: Chris Philbin (Chelmsford West) quoted on his plans to open cannabis cafe, in the Essex Evening Gazette. http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n574.a06.html 28 March: Alun Buffry had a letter printed in the East Anglian Daily Times, furthering the debate on Chris Philbin's proposed cannabis cafe in Witham, Essex. "A cannabis cafe would be a safe place." http://www.buffry.connectfree.co.uk/eadt280302.htm 29 March: Don Barnard had a letter printed in the East Anglian Daily Times, "No reason to refuse a lift off a cannabis user" http://www.buffry.connectfree.co.uk/eadt290302.htm 29 March: The Witham (Essex) cannabis cafe debate continued with the Braintree Council's dismissal of the proposal by Chris Philbin: Essex Chronicle: "Cannabis cafe vetoed" http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n615.a05.html 31 March: Chris Baldwin (Worthing East & Shoreham) appeared on a coffeeshop[ article on CNN News. OTHER LCA ACTIVITIES 1 March: Alun Buffry and Don Barnard from LCA Exec attended the National Drugs Users Development Agency's first annual general meeting in London. See report at http://www.lca-uk.org/displayitem.php?articleid=617 5 March: Lezley Gibson did a telephone interview with Gilberto Ferraz of the Portugal Press Agency. 7 March: Mark Gibson (Penrith & The Border) spoke to sociology students at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle (in Carlisle). 10 March: Lezley Gibson appeared on a panel alongside Eileen McCarthy, Simon Hughes MP and Professor John Ashton of Liverpool University, on Granada TV's Sunday Supplement show. LCA CHAT lists We have established the following chat lists: LCA Chat list for endorsees only. LCA World chat list for serious activists around the world to share ideas LCA Candidate's list for past and future UK candidates. Details on request. FORTHCOMING EVENTS SATURDAY 4 MAY 2002: CANNABIS MARCH AND FESTIVAL London Cannabis March and Festival, Sat 4th May 2002. Contact: Cannabis Coalition (London), PO Box 2243, London, W1A 1YF. Tel: 0207 837 2720. email: may4th@cannabiscoalition.org http://www.cannabiscoalition.org Birmingham Cannabis March & Festival, Sat 4th May 2002. Contact: Cannabis Coalition (Birmingham), 8 Florence Rd, Kingsheath, Birmingham, B14 7DD. Tel. 0121 242 3615. Manchester Cannabis March and Festival, Sat 4th May 2002. Contact: Cannabis Coalition (Manchester), 57 Church Street, Smithfield Buildings, Manchester, M4. Tel: 0161 834 1130 LCA PUBLICATIONS Cannabis Campaigner's Guide, over 100 pages A4 spiral-bound, crammed full of information - history, politics, law, uses, medicine, industrial, contacts, facts and theory and much more. Now available from the LCA at just £9.99. Anyone reluctant to buy, please help the campaign by ordering a copy through your local library (if you are not a member just go in and join). This will help boost sales AND get the volume on the library shelf. Whilst there, why not order a copy of the LCA publication "Cannabis: Legalise and Utilise" at the same time. Here are the details that you will need: "THE CANNABIS CAMPAIGNER'S GUIDE" by C.D. Seeds ISBN 0-9535693-2-2 "CANNABIS: LEGALISE AND UTILISE" by the LCA ISBN 0-9535693-1-4 Both published by The Legalise Cannabis Alliance, PO Box 198, Norwich, NR2 2DH DOWNLOADS: Now available for download - print it yourself - at just £2 each from WebBooks: http://www.webbooks.org/Synopses/lca_mani.php "Cannabis: Legalise and Utilise" - the LCA Manifesto and Information Document and http://www.webbooks.org/Synopses/YouThe.php "You the Jury: Cannabis Law and Drug Testing". NEWS LIST The ccguide-news list will be operated for subscribers only, at the low charge of £10 until the end of 2002. This is to meet operating costs. The News Service will be operated by CCGUIDE. To subscribe to this list please e-mail newslist@ccguide.lca-online.net for details of where to send your payment. Keep up-to-date with events at http://www.ccguide.org.uk/events.html ** Collect endorsements for the LCA. See http://www.lca-uk.org ** Collect signatures for the on-line petition, now numbering over 6,000. see http://www.ethical-business.com/allpets.asp ** Help raise funds - without financial support we can do little. Just £1 a week from a large number of people would work wonders. ALL funds are spent on campaigning - we pay no wages! all the best Alun National Coordinator Legalise Cannabis Alliance PO Box 198 Norwich NR2 2DH
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