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UK: Hopes of town cannabis protestors go up in smoke Nicola Fahey Redditch Standard Thursday 23 Oct 2008 Only a couple of hundred activists turned out for the eight-hour static demonstration in the town centre against so-called "unjust" cannabis laws, despite organisers previously claiming their mass protest in Redditch would hit Home Secretary and town MP Jacqui Smith "where it most hurts". Some residents were said to have avoided the area amid rumours campaigners were set to cause trouble in the town. But the biggest disappointment for leader Jim Starr, otherwise known as 'Pinky', was the fact that Ms Smith continued to ignore the pleas of thousands of medicinal users on her own doorstep and didn't turn up to talk to protesters as invited. The protest follows the Home Secretary's decision earlier in the year to reclassify cannabis as a class B drug, despite advice from the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs. Pinky said: "We want answers as to why she wasted heaps of taxpayers' money and disregarded the outcome of the report that recommended cannabis remain at class C? "But if anything, this demonstration has proved by her failure to turn up that she's the kind of person who stays quiet and hopes a problem will go away - but we will not go away. "People in pain should have the right to use the only substance that works, without the fear of prosecution." The Government's decision to reclassify cannabis as a class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 was announced by Ms Smith in May on "public safety" grounds. The Home Office said at the time there was real public concern about the potential mental health effects of cannabis use and, in particular, the use and availability of stronger kinds of cannabis. http://www.redditchstandard.co.uk/
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