NORML UK´s Cannabis Hypocrisy Protest taking place on Wednesday 9th October 2013, commencing at midday.
The Assembly point for the demonstration will be in front of Jewel Tower (Abingdon Street) which is situated on the north side of College Green (or garden) as seen on the attached map,
There is underground parking in Abingdon Street Car Park, directly beneath College Green.
Speakers will include Stuart Harper who will be joining Clark French and Greg De Hoedt, all of whom are members of, and work within both NORML UK and the UK Cannabis Social Club network, and all are UK medical cannabis patients who are denied legal access to the cannabis plant.
Clark French
Supporters please bring your own placards displaying your own private statement about how cannabis law hypocrisy affects you.
Medical cannabis patients who have either legal or illegal access in the UK to any cannabis based medicines are welcome to share their story either via a written blog or on the day of the protest. There will be several film crews and photographers attending the event, so your contribution with be recorded and shared widely to help with public eduction. If you would be interested in participating please email jo@norml-uk.org with a brief outline of your story*
NORML UK would like to remind all event supporters that cannabis possession remains illegal in the UK, unless supported by the required official documentation.
The following information is provided to help you.
Your rights as a demonstrator
https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/campaigns/protest/nusliberty-rights…
Your rights if you are busted
http://www.release.org.uk/sites/release.org.uk/files/ereader/bustcard/index…
Your rights with regards to sniffer dogs
http://www.release.org.uk/sites/release.org.uk/files/pdf/publications/Sniff…
*In order to maintain a certain standard within our blogs NORML UK reserves the right to edit any submissions to make them suitable for publication.
legalize cannabis its within our rights as its gods creation and it has PROVEN medical benefits!! we need more power to the people and not on the say of the minority coalition government who assume they are the ones who know best and we as a nation should take it to a vote to see what is really thought about such a harmless plant being stripped away from society!!
weed is one of the reasons i go to work everyday and earn my money .
weed is one of the reasons i can sleep at night.
good luck to you all
Hello cannabis n has been my life since the age of like 14 im 41 now thing is through this colourful time ive come across lots a peeps and well every one who hasnt understood the joys of this plant has tried to put me off ,aw man police ,prison ,then family .Then the worm turned as we all knew it would its taken this long and well ile have to move abroad if the uk doesnt yeild like the other countrys as growing pot is now my life.Mam died a cancer not knowing her own son could a helped her ,silly bloody law.Ive lived in amsterdam spain morrocco even india never ever thought ide go to the states to grow either but i will leave the uk like love darren
I strongly support the legalisation of cannabis but what gets me is the goverment know the benefits of cannabis and how much safer it is than tabacco and alcohol. I think the laws are there for other reasons rather than to put across the message cannabis is a bad drug. Im not sure any change can be made but I hope to be proved wrong.
Some of us have jobs to go to and it might help to deter some of the sterotypes of stoners being lazy jobless layabouts if maybe you had one of the protests on the weekend?
It was held on a Wednesday on purpose, because that’s when MPs were sitting in Parliament; they don’t sit on a Saturday.
Members of Parliament do not seem to work at weekends..