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Cannabis users turn to Internet Jenny Johnson Western Mail Saturday 11 Nov 2000 Drug users will be put in direct contact with cannabis growers and suppliers with the launch of a new network that backers claim is above the law. A group of Welsh campaigners, frustrated at what they claim is the Government¹s refusal to bow to public opinion about legalising the drug, have established Cannabis Registration UK... ...They claim people using the system will be protected from prosecution because, if police try to track down growers by posing as customers, they will be guilty of entrapment... ...Founder Neil Morgan, who has smoked cannabis for 30 years, admits to having been convicted of cannabis offences on a number of occasions. He served a six-month sentence in 1998 for cultivating the drug. Mr Morgan, 45, of Llandovery, said yesterday that he anticipated setting up a network of 5,000 ³coffee shops" across Britain, such as those found in the Dutch capital Amsterdam, selling cannabis and creating, he claims, thousands of jobs. He is also calling for an amnesty on cannabis prosecutions and preparing a manifesto¹ urging the Home Office to decriminalise the drug and adopt their ideas. ³This is the only way we can show the Government that we are capable of doing this. It¹s only smokers and people with experience who are qualified to deal with this. ³I have 30 years experience as a smoker and grower - I know every aspect of the cannabis industry. There are five million people in this country who are sick to death of having to live like criminals. We are normal people who just like a smoke instead of a drink." Bachelor Mr Morgan, settled in Wales for 12 years, says his cannabis convictions have rendered him virtually unemployable. "Noone has ever come up with any evidence that cannabis, as opposed to tobacco and alcohol, is harmful," said Mr. Morgan. However, he said much of the cannabis sold on the streets was contaminated with other substances - something he pledged would be reduced or stopped altogether under his system. The Cannabis Registration website - which Mr Morgan hopes to get up and running by this weekend - will provide prospective users with a mobile telephone number for a grower in their area. "We will provide safe, consistent quality cannabis, and the Government can have the revenue if that¹s what they want," he said. "This way we take cannabis out of the criminals¹ hands. People are smoking rubbish because of contamination. "We are challenging the government to stop prohibition, which we believe is irresponsible and dangerous." But PC Cheryl Flower, of South Wales Police, a coordinator on the newly-established DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) scheme for schools, warned that children could easily find their way on to the website. "My belief is that cannabis is a gateway drug - for some it does lead on to other drugs," she said. "This man is blatantly breaking the law by putting [supply details] on a website. It abuse of the internet to encourage people to do something wrong."
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