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May 2002
Alun Buffry LCA Monthly Report
Friday 31 May 2002 Please read through this message and keep if, as it contains important information on how you can help or become more actively involved in the campaign to legalise cannabis, join chat lists and news lists etc. MAY 2002: LCA site has a new page for comments from some of our endorsees and an opportunity to add your own to the site. Visit: http://www.lca-uk.org/comments.php LCA Letters List: Now is the time to write a letter about the recent reports and forthcoming reclassification. We are hoping to expand the activities on the LCA-Letters list and generate more letters to the press. A published letter is by far the most economical way to get the message out to a large number of readers and - who knows - we may even start a debate!All endorsees are invited to subscribe. We hope that by joining the list you will commit yourself to writing AT LEAST one letter to the press each week. The list (including yourself) will spread news articles and published letters to which list members will be invited to reply to the paper. We hope that all list-members will send any letters sent or published to the list to help inspire others. To subscribe send an e-mail with no subject and the following text to Majordomo@sorted.org: subscribe lca-letters [followed by the e-mail address you want to use if different from the one you send from]. E-Mail addresses of the press can be found at http://www.ccguide.org.uk/e_press.html If you do not have a copy of the LCA Manifesto, you should try to buy one. Send cheque or PO for £5.00 (UK only) payable "LCA" to LCA, PO Box 198, Norwich, NR3 3WB From outside the UK please ask for price including additional postage. During May, we gained 56 new endorsees bringing the total to 1447. Welcome to: Stacey, Joshua, John, Daniel, Kyracos, Adam, Matthew, Richard, Aaron, Jose, Robert, Jim, Caroline, Tony, Emily, Victoria, Chris, Paul, Anthony, Todd, Keith, Paul, Ivonice, Duane, Leon, Robert, Kate, Chris, Peter, Ian, Paul, Lee, Shaunie, Jamie, Ali, David, Ian, Karl, Matthew, Belinda, Stuart, Ben, Mick, Henry, Duncan, Alexander, Monica, Andrew, Ian, Steven, Amie, Simon, James, David, Paul and Tracy. May 4: reports from cannabis marches around the globe can be found at: http://www.ccguide.org.uk/eventreports.html May: Linda Hendry (LCA candidates for Edinburgh South, 2001, Scottish Green Party, and Legalise Cannabis Campaign Scotland) did a very successful information stall in Princes Street, Edinburgh. Locals asked her to do more stalls. May 11: Mark Gibson (Penrith & The Border) et al held a successful LCA Northern fund-raising event that was well attended by a wide range of people from campaigners to representatives from the authorities. Thanks to the band, 'Mostly Autumn.' May 17: Colin Davies, manager of the Dutch Experience cannabis cafe in Stockport, was given conditional bail after 7 months on remand in HMP Strangeways. Bail was conditional that he did not enter the cannabis cafe or go into Greater Manchester and that he did not talk to press about his case or his campaign to legalise cannabis. Reports about UK cannabis cafes at http://www.ccguide.org.uk/cannabiscafes.html Report about Colin Davies at http://www.ccguide.org.uk/colindaviesstory.html PRESS INTERVIEWS and Speeches: Don Barnard, Press Officer, did the following interviews during May: 4 May: CNN News at Brockwell Park, London 21 May: Norwegian Press, by telephone 23 May: Daniel Sandford (BBC Home Affairs Correspondent) National News Transmission from Plymouth 27 May: Leicester Mercury re cannabis cafe, by telephone. 30 May:Talks with user groups in Essex and attended discussions with Essex Drug Action Team 30 May: Radio Kent phone interview. Also: Advised and assisted the following: Johnathan Dimbleby show from Holland. Anglia TV: Chris Philbin's and cannabis cafes; to be shown 19 July. Sky News on coffee shops - passed on to DE2 and Nol - programme going ahead. Interview on Chelmsford Dream FM about reclassification. Interview on London radio about drug testing. Alun Buffry, National Coordinator, did the following interviews during May: 2 May: Sunday Times, Scotland department, on possible cannabis cafes in Scotland, by telephone 2 May: Evening Standard, London, on cannabis cafes and big businesses, by telephone. 4 May: Spoke at anti-war trades fair in Nottingham. 18 May: Evening News, Norwich 20 May: Live telephone interview with Steve Noan on Belfast Radio City Beat 21 May: Evening Standard by telephone. 30 May: Rolling Stone Magazine by telephone. To be published in June. 31 May: Telephone interview with Care & Health Guide for Social Care Professionals. To be published in July. 31 May: Central TV telephone interview re cannabis cafe in Leicester. ================ PUBLISHED LETTERS AND PRESS ARTICLES (places after a person's name indicate constituency where he / she stood in the General Election 2001) 2 May: Don Barnard responded to anti-cannabis calls in Witham, Essex: "Legalise Cannabis Challenge", Braintree & Witham Times: http://www.buffry.connectfree.co.uk/bt020502.htm 4 May: Linda Hendry (Edinburgh South) was quoted at the cannabis protest in the Edinburgh Evening News: "Pro-Cannabis Activists Hit City's Streets" http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n861.a02.html 5 May: Shane Collins of the Green Party Drugs Group was quoted in the Manchester Evening News: "Cannabis Campaigners March On Manchester City": http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n863.a06.html 6 May: Shane Collins was quoted in The Guardian speaking about London's cannabis march: "Thousands Of Protesters Have A Spliffing Time": http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n864.a07.html 6 May: Carl Wagner's (Hull North) was quoted at the cannabis protest in Hull that was reported in the Hull Daily Mail: "Cannabis Users In Public Protest": http://www.buffry.connectfree.co.uk/hdm6502.htm and BBC Humber on-line: "Protest Goes To Pot in Hull": http://www.buffry.connectfree.co.uk/bbch6502.htm 9 May: Alun Buffry's letter "Right to Protest" in response to calls for Carl Wagner to stop cannabis marches in Hull, was printed in the Hull Daily Mail: http://www.buffry.connectfree.co.uk/hdm090502.htm 20 May: Carl Wagner (Hull North) had a letter published in the Hull Daily Mail: "Drugs Legislation Wastes Police Time" http://www.buffry.connectfree.co.uk/hdm200502.htm 25 May: Derek Williams had a letter published in the Eastern Daily Press criticising the Home Affairs Committee's report: Drugs Policy, Is It Working? http://www.buffry.connectfree.co.uk/edp250502.htm 29 May: Chris Peabody's plans to open a cannabis cafe in Leicester with comments from Don Barnard, Press Officer, reported in Leicester Mercury: http://www.buffry.connectfree.co.uk/lm290502.htm 31 May: "Cannabis campaigners" plan to open cannabis cafe in Leicester were reported on Radio Broadland FM. 31 May: BBC On Line News reported Chris Peabody's plans to open a cannabis cafe in Leicester with comments from Don Barnard, Press Officer: http://www.buffry.connectfree.co.uk/bbc310502.htm 31 May: Carl Wagner (Hull North) had a letter published in the Hull Daily Mail: "Little Profit In Cannabis Cure"; http://www.buffry.connectfree.co.uk/hdm310502.htm ================ STANDARD INFORMATION: **** INTERNET ACCESS: NOW AVAILABLE - LCA-ONLINE.NET an Internet Service Provider that help support the LCA financially Now you can help the campaign every time you dial on to the Internet, either pay-as-you-go or unlimited access for just £14.99 per month - including e-mail addresses, web space and sub-domain registration. http://www.lca-online.net By using either dial-up access you will be contributing to the funding of future campaign activities and administration. ================== **** ACTION FOR YOU TO DO NOW **** Please sign the on-line "Legalise Cannabis Now!" petition to the UK Home Office. http://www.ethical-business.com/petitions.asp?pet_id=34 By printing out the petition text you can collect names and addresses that you can add on-line later. PLEASE ONLY SIGN ONCE **** You may also like to add your name to the "Denounce the UN Single Convention on Drugs" petition now at http://www.ethical-business.com/petitions.asp?pet_id=201 **** and sign the ANGEL DECLARATION http://www.angeldeclaration.com **** Write to your MP by snail mail or e-mail. There is a new SAMPLE letter at http://www.ccguide.org.uk/strawlet.html and hints on letter-writing at http://www.ccguide.org.uk/letters.html Please remember to send us a copy of any reply you get so it can be added to the page at http://www.ccguide.org.uk/yourmp.html **** Visit and Bookmark our events page http://www.ccguide.org.uk/events.html **** Buy your cannabis / hemp / drugs and other books on line through WebBooks and help generate funds. http://www.paston.co.uk/users/webbooks/webhome.html **** Distribute fliers in your area - target them to help gain active support and votes. **** Let us know if you are prepared to speak to the press or do interviews in your area with TV or radio. **** By sending £5.00 you will enable us to send a copy of our Manifesto to two more MP's. **** No Victim No Crime stickers are available for £5.50 per hundred (includes postage) - they are bright yellow with green leaf and green wording and 2.5 inches diameter and once placed are hard to remove, so use them wisely! **** Keep up-to-date with events at http://www.ccguide.org.uk/events.html **** Keep up-to-date with LCA News at http://www.lca-uk.org **** Keep up-to-date with world news at http://www.ccguide.org.uk/newspage.html **** HELP collect endorsements for the LCA. See http://www.lca-uk.org **** HELP collect signatures for the on-line petitions. See http://www.ccguide.org.uk/petitions.html **** HELP raise funds - without financial support we can do little. Just £1 a week from a large number of people would work wonders. ==================== **** LCA E-MAIL LISTS ===> LCA ENDORSEES LIST FOR RARE ANNOUNCEMENTS - (one way only) As an endorsee of the Principles, Aims and Proposals of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance, you have been subscribed to the LCA "endorseelist" for special announcements that we hope will be of interest to you. These include campaign action, events and or information. You will also be sent monthly LCA News Bulletins through www.ccguide.org.uk. This list is NOT a news list nor a chat list. If you do NOT wish to be on this list, please send an e-mail with no subject and no text to endorseelist-unsubscribe@lca-uk.org or email me at endorseelist@ccguide.lca-online.net LCA CHAT LIST FOR ACTIVISTS If you would like to subscribe to and participate in a chat list for LCA endorsees. send a BLANK e-mail to chatlist-subscribe@lca-uk.org from the e-mail address you wish to use. The LCA "chatlist" will operate much like other chat lists. Members of the list send a message to the list and it is forwarded to everybody else who may then reply to the list. List members have already endorsed LCA principles, Aims and Proposals, so there need be no arguments over that, but some may interpret or extrapolate polices differently or find they wish to discuss broader issues, or policy issues in more detail. This will also present us with a valuable opportunity to discuss campaigning tactics and work together as a large group, nationally and internationally. There are endorsees who are on other chat lists and who may forward messages from one list to another. The list is NOT meant for lurkers, but if you feel you would like to participate, please join by sending an e-mail as explained above. You will be able to subscribe and unsubscribe at will. The volume of mail that you receive will be determined by the number of people who subscribe and how many messages they wish to send. Time-wasters, abusers, blatant advertisers, and non-endorsees will be thrown off the list! NB: When you are on the list, PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO OTHER MEMBERS LCA LETTER-WRITERS LIST The LCA run a letters list "lca-letters" for supporters who promise to write at least one letter a week in response to articles and published letters posted to the list - up to 6 items a week. If you are interested in participating in this. To subscribe send an e-mail with no subject and the following text to Majordomo@sorted.org: subscribe lca-letters [followed by the e-mail address you want to use if different from the one you send from]. LCA WORLD LIST FOR EVERYONE The LCA "worldlist" has also established a world-wide chat list for cannabis campaigners, not all of whom necessarily support the Principles, Aims and Proposals of the LCA. If you would like to PARTICIPATE in this list, send an e-mail to worldlist-subscribe@lca-uk.org You will receive details of how to send messages, subscribe and unsubscribe. NB: When you are on the list, PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO OTHER MEMBERS CCGUIDE NEWS LIST (http://www.ccguide.,org.uk) FOR NEW BULLETINS (one way only) The "ccguide-news" list exists to spread news of events and discoveries, encourage participation in one or more aspects of our campaign, encourage people to respond to letters and articles printed in the press, and attract support for our activities both on and off line. In order to subscribe to this list send an email to sub.ccguidenews@ccguide.lca-online.net You will receive between about 10 e-mails a week. The list is manually operated, so if you wish to be removed at any time, just mail me and ask. You can also follow world news about cannabis at http://www.ccguide.org.uk/newspage.html LCA CANDIDATES LIST If you are definitely planning to stand as an LCA candidate, the "candlist" is the place for you to communicate with past and other future candidates. To request subscription mail me at lca@lca-uk.org ================= **** SUPPORT AND ESSENTIAL DONATIONS As you probably know, the LCA is registered as a political party in the UK. We seek the support of voters (and prospective voters) and offer an umbrella political voice for those who wish to see the legalisation of cannabis. The LCA has range of policies on cannabis issues that effect many aspects of society and our lives: health, the environment, fuel and pollution, education, drugs, law and order, human rights, agriculture, trade, employment and foreign affairs. We are a single issue party but what a broad issue that is! We cannot operate without funding, that's obvious. But many people may think we have plenty. We don't! We DO NOT get support from many people who profit out of the illegal status of cannabis and nothing from pop stars and celebrities who have become rich on the cannabis culture. The largest single donation we have ever received for the LCA is £500. Our annual turnover is less than £5000. A regular donation of just 50 pence per week would make a huge difference to what we can do. That can conveniently be done at £2 per month by standing order through your bankers - form available on request - by sending postal orders or second class stamps) Other political parties may get huge donations of money, we don't. We are running the party on a shoestring budget, having to ask candidates to raise their own funds - at least a thousand pounds per candidate. So we rely on many smaller donations and hope that endorsees will ask their friends. Basically, unless we get money coming in we cannot even get the message out that we exist. Past experience shows that we cannot rely on the press to help. Without pretence we admit that the party is run by volunteers in their own houses - people who have to pay their own phone bills for LCA business. We often struggle when it comes to news-letter distributions, attending conferences and printing fliers. A small and regular donation - less per week than what many people put in a single joint, less than ten cigarettes, less than half a pint of beer!) - WILL make a huge difference. In this way YOUR SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL for without you the party will collapse. On the other hand, if you know anyone "rich" enough to give larger amounts, every £1000 will enable another candidate to stand! Donations should be sent by PO or cheque payable to "LCA", posted to LCA, PO Box 198, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 2DH You can also donate by standing order mandate through your bank - ask us for a form if you do not have one. ================ PUBLICATIONS: OUR MANIFESTO ===> The LCA publishes a 60-page manifesto: "CANNABIS, LEGALISE AND UTILISE: A MANIFESTO AND INFORMATION DOCUMENT", ISBN 09535693 1 4 You can read some selected sections at http://www.lca-uk.org. You can order your copy direct through LCA, through all good bookshops, or through WebBooks on-line bookstore by clicking here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0953569314/webbooks05 It is now also available for download - print it yourself - at just £2 each from WebBooks: http://www.webbooks.org/Synopses/lca_mani.php "Cannabis: Legalise and Utilise: A Manifesto and Information Document" Also: http://www.webbooks.org/Synopses/YouThe.php "You the Jury: Cannabis Law and Drug Testing". Or if you prefer a hard copy, send a cheque or postal order for £5.00 for each payable to "LCA", to LCA, PO Box 198, Norwich, NR2 2DH **** VOTING AND STANDING FOR ELECTION ===> If you are not already registered to vote and are eligible please get in touch with the Elections Officer at your local authority offices. Voters will be able to add their voice to many others at the next County Council, Local and General Elections. If you are not registered to vote you cannot make changes. If you are interesting in standing as an LCA candidate or as an Independent or candidate for another party, and wish to priorities the legalisation of cannabis in your election campaign, you may wish to seek our support. Mail: lca@lca-uk.org For some information on standing, see http://www.ccguide.org.uk/howstand.html The Legalise Cannabis Alliance Executive consists of: Don Barnard, Press Officer Alun Buffry, Nominating Officer & National Coordinator Mark Gibson, Medical Spokesman, Fund-raising Officer and LCA Northern Coordinator Hugh Robertson, Treasurer. The LCA is a Registered Political Party. This News Release is Promoted and Published by the Legalise Cannabis Alliance.. respect Alun Buffry National Coordinator Legalise Cannabis Alliance --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: ukcia-a-unsubscribe@ukcia.org For additional commands, e-mail: ukcia-a-help@ukcia.org -----End of original message from alun@ccguide.lca-online.net-----
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