A 'stealth tax' by any other name, which is used to earn tax revenue from a commodity outside of the legal tax system. And who gives a damn how many of our children are convicted of a "drug offence" for being caught carrying cannabis three times in the same area. At least I think thats how it works although its really hard to say for sure. So a vote for Labour is a vote for a party which has no new ideas on the cannabis issue. Just plenty of old ones.
Conservative
To be honest there's no point even mentioning the Conservatives as their primary spin doctor (Paul Dacre at the Daily Mail), won't have anything positive said about cannabis in his newspaper and lets face it, thats where tory policy is cooked up.
Which is remarkeable when you think the mechanisms cannabis uses to destroy tumours have been called remarkeable by at least two practicing American doctors.
Or that a British bio-science company called GW Pharmaceuticals, who just happen to be based at a government owned top secret Porton Down facility, is tip-toeing around quietly in the background, attempting to license its cannabis spray treatment for MS (called Sativex), under the protective shroud of prohibition.
How does THAT work? How in this instance, can Home Secretary Alan Johnson maintain cannabis has no medicinal use to us? Its an outrage.
Which brings us squarely to the third of the so-called 'Big Three'.
Liberal Democrats
After the first televised leaders debate, it didn't pass unoticed that so rattled were Messr's Brown and Cameron, by the calm and reasoned arguments put forwards by Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg, they decided to join forces in trying their best to shoot down the cheeky young upstart, by releasing negative policy stories in their respective newspapers. 'He said this', said Gordon Brown. 'He said that' said David Cameron.
But all that has done is stoke Mr Clegg's flames, and especially so amongst a cannabis community which is more 'connected' and in touch with current affairs than ever before.
A South Wales man who used cannabis to kick a damaging alcohol habit actually wrote to Nick Clegg's constituency office in Sheffield, to ask for the Lib-Dem's standpoint. This is what he received in return;
If the Lib-Dems are voted into power at the 2010 General Election, they will;
*Re-classify cannabis BACK to a Class C drug.
*Adopt a policy of not prosecuting possession for own use, social supply to adults or cultivation of cannabis plants for own use.
*The Lib-Dems will repeal Sections 8 (c) and (d) of the Misuse of Drugs Act so that it is no longer a crime for the occupier or manager of premises to permit someone to use cannabis on those premises.
*And they will also Permit medical use of cannabis derivatives, subject to appropriate pharmaceutical controls and the successful conclusion of current clinical trials.
So with this in mind, please vote, and whilst you're at it, please choose your vote carefully.
By Red Dragon
Cannazine Cannabis News |
Green/Eco/Environment 
