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Steve emerges from the smoke as cannabis candidate Mike Laycock York Evening Post Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 CAMPAIGNER calling for cannabis to be legalised is planning to stand for the York Parliamentary seat at the next election. Businessman Steve Clements says that if the campaign eventually succeeds, he would apply to City of York Council for a licence to open a cannabis cafe in the city centre. He says he could guarantee that the behaviour of customers at such an establishment would be far more acceptable than what can be seen outside the city's pubs and clubs. Steve, 39, who runs The Hemp Shop in Church Street, York, says he is so irritated by the authorities' failure to legalise the use of the drug that he has signed up to the Legalise Cannabis Alliance, a registered political party. "I intend to put myself forward for election at the next local elections and Parliamentary elections," he said. He claimed that thousands of otherwise law-abiding people were being criminalised every year for using cannabis. "The current policies are an abject failure and are letting down our young people," he said. "In the meantime, society's love of alcohol continues unchecked, creating more misery, more violence and at greater cost to the taxpayer." He said he often "wondered about the sense of it all" as he walked to work on a Sunday morning through the "blood and vomit-stained streets of York." He said The Hemp Shop sold a range of legal products made from cannabis hemp. A Home Office spokeswoman said: "Cannabis will be reclassified from B to C, but will not be decriminalised. York MP Hugh Bayley said: "My view of cannabis is that it should be used when prescribed by a doctor. I don't think cannabis should be legalised."
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