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UK: A stall to roll up for
Simon Bristow Hull Daily Mail
Friday 02 Nov 2001 Among the traditional displays of fish, fruit and vegetables, a stall with a difference is hoping to attract shoppers to Hull's covered market. At a glance, the items of display at Carl Wagner's stall resemble the assortment of good available at any other cut-price outlet - bags, books, T shirts, body lotion and the occasional piece of natty headgear. There are also refreshments including hemp bars, orange bonbons, gum, flapjack and lozenges. But barring the reading material, and a collection of hookah pipes and bongs sent all the way from India almost everything for sale is made from hemp - the same plant from which cannabis is derived. Some people may be surprised to learn the plant has so many uses. According to 42-year old Mr Wagner - who stood in the last election as a representative of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance - almost 20,000 other products can be made from hemp. He is a hive of information on cannabis related topics. "Part of my reason for coming here was to try and educate people," said Mr Wagner. "Unfortunately most of the information from official bodies is either misleading or is simply untrue." Mr Wagner, from Victoria Square, Ella Street, West Hull, is part of an increasingly influential consensus lobbying for the legalisation of many banned substances. On Monday, the Home Secretary David Blunkett announced that cannabis would be reclassified from a class B to a class C drug - putting it in the same category as anti-depressants and steroids. Mr Blunkett denied the move was decriminalisation by another name and stressed the drug would remain illegal.
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