http://pr.cannazine.co.uk : Its time for another rain-drenched bank-holiday, and with the rain & wind likely to batter the windows (it normally does), Alun Buffry from the Legalise Cannabis Alliance has come up with a bonzer way to spend a half an hour of your time.
Using the message below, and filled in with your personal details, this message to your local newspaper editor gives a great opportunity to let political candidates in the fourthcoming Euro-Elections know, the British cannabis community has a voice, and that voice is asking, "While the United States and Europe makes great strides in getting a grip on the cannabis debate, what can we as a nation expect from you on the topic of drugs"?
Simply find out the email address of your local newspaper's editor, and send it through to him. If enough people ask the question, the newspapers are forced to answer them.
Dear Editor In the absence of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance in the forthcoming elections, I would dearly like to know the views of candidates on the issues surrounding cannabis.
I ask this because I recognise that cannabis, aka hemp, is about much more than whether or not adults should be prosecuted for possession or cultivation for their own use if they have done no harm, although of course, that is an important question to a significant percentage of voters who use it.
Cannabis is about health and medicine, education, fuel, pollution and the environment, taxation, law, Justice and Human Rights, employment and trade. It is about the huge amount of beneficial use by adults, as well as about those who claim to have suffered. It is about crime and drug dealing, adulteration of products and links with hard drugs and crime.
I wonder how many candidates could explain the connections and give us their views in a clear way, either through this paper or on their own web sites / fliers and broadcasts?
I would like to give my votes to candidates who see the common sense and logic in legalising what is one of the most useful plants in the world and utilising it to prepare safe and effective medicines and environmentally-friendly fuel and other products.
And one other thing I would like to see from the candidates. That they make clear their own views on other issues and not refer to or simply disagree with those of the other candidates.
Maybe the paper could provide a forum where candidates can debate and we can learn alittle more about them - for, in my case at least, I will be voting for candidates and not just a political party.
Green/Eco/Environment 
