POEM: The Scarecrow Dies by Alun Buffry

 The Scarecrow Dies

by Alun Buffry
December 2021

 

A storm outside

Where fear abides

The thunder claps

The lightning zaps

The scarecrows in the fields.

Inside is calm,

Peaceful and warm,

It feels of love,

Soft Light above

The scarecrows finally yield.

Throughout ones life,

We all feel strife,

Darkness and confusion,

Amidst the world’s illusion

With which we daily deal.

But please don’t cry,

One day we’ll die,

Life is for here and now,

The scarecrows will all bow,

As life is but a wheel.

The scarecrows are the sinners.

The lovers are the winners.

As hatred outside dies,

And peace inside will fly,

And gratitude we’ll feel.

 

 

Bob Marley - Don't worry be Happy

Hear Yourself by Prem Rawat, a short reading by Alun Buffry, Norwich, UK

 

https://hearyourselfbook.com/

Decriminalise Cannabis ro Boost MP's Wages and Have More Downing Street Parties

 Do UK MP's realise that if they decriminalised cannabis possession and growing at home they could save a lot of money on police and courts and give themselves a massive pay rise and have a massive party.

 

 

 

 

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My view on the present UK cannabis campaign and activities

This is my view on the present UK cannabis campaign and activities

Within the UK:

It seems that WTU is struggling to raise the funds to bring the legal action against the government that Phil Monk intended and is otherwise lacking direction - for that legal action hundreds of thousands of pounds will be needed and WTU has about ten grand, we are told. Also waiting to see the outcome of Outlaw's Judicial Review as he has the funds and a legal team. WTU has had problems with FB taking down their group - twice, and accusations of misappropriation of funds due to lack of transparency in accounting and then the volunteer accountant resigned due to the very same accusations they were meant to dispel. WTU has amassed evidence to support their case which is now available through Amazon in the book The Fight for Rights and Freedom of Choice, Phil Monk is not in the best of health either. Support had dropped off, there is a forum but it so far is not being used much.

SOF have been producing reports and considering a Judicial Review on the way in which driving impairment charges are based upon blood samples rather than driving ability - again funds are needed.

Personally I would like to see WTU and SOF combine as WTU is also so dependent on Phil's health and availability which is not so good, and rather than splitting the energy maybe that would make better focus.

As you say, not a lot of activity from UKCSC which was in any case largely based on picnics in parks which were put on hold due to Covid restrictions, and a long way from the transparent members-only collective growing of the original Spanish and Belgian Cannabis Social Clubs.

NORML UK does not seem to be active either.

The cannabis political party in the UK idea does not seem very popular since the days of LCA, despite CLEAR and CISTA. Personally I believe a political party did give campaigners a platform and attract press.

Also there seems to be very little effort put into "Letters to the Editor" which in my opinion can be one of the most cost effective means of campaigning and getting the message out there. But it takes consistent effort. And few groups seem capable of issuing regular Press Releases.

There is also the GYO campaign and the Human Rights campaign.

Again IMO the human Rights campaign which basically accuses the Government of Crime and regards the people in court as mostly victims of misuse of power and wrong application of law and covers private and religious / belief activities that pose no threat to the public or public health, would cover GYO for own use and social sharing.

In the UK there were several attempt to get court cases dropped, noticeably Lezley and Mark Gibson - their case was dropped on the understanding that they stopped growing and accessed their medicine through private prescription. Tony Bevington had similar conditions put on him to avoid prosecution.

In the UK the cancard incentive - a card that people that use cannabis for medicinal reasons and costs £30 and an annual fee can be presented to police and seems, as they report, to have had some success in avoiding prosecution and confiscation for cannabis being carried on the street in small amounts - they say they are trying to expand it to give some form of immunity to people growing their own for their own medicinal reasons. Cancard also has some opposition from other groups and campaigners that feel it is limited and avoids the real issues, also somebody seems to be makinga lot of money.

Meanwhile we are hearing a lot about CBD and even TV and magazines are full of advertising for it.

Books BY ALUN BUFFRY from ABeFree Publishing

Books BY ALUN BUFFRY from ABeFree Publishing

Beers and Wines

Vintage Wine Labels

Horses and Lions Statues

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POEM: I Can See You

 

I Can See You

by

Alun Buffry

October 2021

I can see your shadow in the sun.
I can see you, since time itself began.
I can see you on that empty chair.
I know you’re always there.

You may have passed from my direct sight.
You may have travelled to that divinest light.
Yet I see you rustling in the trees.
Yet I see you in the buzzing bees.

You went before me, travelled on.
Yet I hear you in every loving song.
I never thought so soon you'd go.
You never went, I truly know.

I can see you in my mind.
In my heart it's you I find.
My time will come, I'll see you there.
And peace and bliss I know we'll share.

https://ccguide.org/poetry.php

SMILE: Positivity

The state of the world, especially after the problems with Covid, restrictions, lockdown, the negative stuff we are bombarded with by the media and lack of confidence in the authorities, is causing unbearable stress and worry for so many people.

How do we cope? What is the solution?

What can be done to help us cope? Booze, drugs, violence, tears?

One thing that I have learned is that our subconscious minds which absorb everything we are told, controls us and our moods and actions far more than most people realise. But most of us have little or no idea what is in there.

Our subconscious mind, however, is incapable to separating sense from nonsense, reality from illusion, good from bad. It is like a blackboard or computer that simply stores what is written on it. Yet is determines not just our conscious minds and decisions, but our dreams and nightmares.

THERE IS A SOLUTION!

We hear about being positive, but how? It is actually very simple. We need to overwrite the bad stuff stored in our subconscious minds and reinforce the positive - through simple repetition - like writing 100 lines at school, although that may not have always worked as they were forced upon us. Here is the technique.

Decide what you want to do, what you want to achieve, how you want to feel, in your life. It can be anything from wanting people to like you, getting more exercise, drinking or eating less, to simply feeling good or that EVERYTHING IS GOOD.

Then we step PAST what we want and CONGRATULATE ourselves for having achieved it already. We REPEAT OUT LOUD, 3 times, 3 times daily (before sleep is a good time to do it too)

For example: I AM GLAD EVERYTHING IS OK, I AM GLAD EVERYTHING IS OK, I AM GLAD EVERYTHING IS OK Or whatever it is

NOTE: NOT "I want" ... or I" wish... " but "I AM GLAD that ... " has already happened. AND IT WORKS.

A simple thing to try, even though I have found that some people resist it or say they don't believe it will work or that it's simply not true.

As I said, the subconscious does not know what is true or what is not true, like the blackboard, but what is written on it will make so much difference to ones life - believe me, try it! 

 

 

 

 

 POSITIVITY (2015)

by Alun Buffry 

Always to be found in this the same place,
Throughout our universe of time and space,
On I will travel, at my own pace,
Can you now see it, in my face?

Never to question how or why,
Upon this earth I find I,
Content and amazed beneath earth's sky,
Yet soaring above white clouds on high.

Hidden within us there is a clue.
It looks like I, it looks like you
For once we were one and that is true,
Now one of so many amongst quite a few.

There is a Love, there is a Light,
Forget any guilt, ignore any fright,
Focus within on a wondrous sight,
The future is now and it's ever so Bright. 

 https://www.buffry.org.uk/poetry.htm

DON'T LET ME TELL YOU WHAT TO DO

by Alun Buffry

I don't need no New Year's resolutions.
They gave me no solutions
To problems that I'd thought I'd had,
As life was good and seldom bad.

I gave up giving up,
If I want a drink a glass I'll sup.
If I want to toke, I'll have a puff
And easy stop when I've had enough.

I know we're just not all the same,
Not in body, mind or name,
But if your life you want to change,
Just make no promises, avoid in shame.

Take control of your own life,
Don't blame the husband or the wife,
Realise that inside you should feel strong
There is no Right, there is no wrong.

There be no guilt as there is no blame,
There is no guilt, should be no shame,
We've all be told what we should do,
By those that don't really know the real you.

Don’t wait for revolution.
Don’t sink in convolution.
The answer’s in the question’s seen.
So I say don’t listen to me

Don't let me tell you how to be.
Live your life for you are free,
To choose to say, to think, to do,
And day by day you will get through. 

December 2020

More Poetry by Alun Buffry

Governmental Controls Can Be Mental

 Every Government in the world, every ruler, king, Pharaoh etc, has been about control, rules and laws, sometimes one rule for the elite and one rule for the others, but even the elite have needed controlling in order for those governments with their various levels of tyranny, to work. Even Human Rights laws have been imposed upon us, in the name of limiting unjust laws and tyranny, but still we are all subject to controls, usually said to be in the public interest or health, hygiene, safety - we accept things like wearing seat belts, where we can park our cars, buying TV licenses, not possessing certain substances, paying out taxes - now they have stretched here as previously in other regimes, to banning mass gatherings, public protests and lockdowns. 

We accept the need for a passport if we want to go abroad - and strangely that the passport asks that citizens be allowed to pass unhindered but we are still subjected to searches of bags and person, questions, need for visas.

Make no mistake, government control is not new - and to me it seems obvious that with population crisis, environmental crisis, let alone viruses, most governments will wish to impose more controls on us to protect themselves and the wealthy. The Ten Commandments has become the ten thousand commandments - they rule by divide and conquer, alienation from our fellow human beings, greed, ignorance and fear.

BUT we are human and we are here to enjoy our lives as best we can - so we don't want to be sent to prison and each ha to decide which rules that we see as justifiable and will obey, and which not and whether or not we will risk what freedom we have left.

I am not one to tell others what to do or be told what to do, although I will listen to advice and do expect people in my house to behave in a certain way or leave.

Brit jailed for 25 years in Dubai after police find tiny cannabis oil bottles in car

 

Brit jailed for 25 years in Dubai after police find tiny cannabis oil bottles in car

Tim Hanlon

The Mirror

Tuesday 12 Oct 2021

A former semi-pro footballer has been jailed for 25 years in Dubai for drug trafficking after police found four small bottles of harmless cannabis oil he claimed were left in his car by a friend.

Billy Hood, who works as a football coach in the United Arab Emirates, said he was forced to confess to a false statement written in Arabic by heavy-handed detectives.

The 24-year-old from Kensington, west London, said he did not know the bottles of CBD oil and a vape pen were left in his company vehicle after giving a friend from London a lift to the airport two weeks before his arrest.

He was with another friend at his apartment on January 31 when Dubai police pointed a Taser in his face as he went to his car to retrieve a phone charger.

The officers handcuffed Mr Hood and allegedly threatened to electrocute him if he refused to cooperate, then demanded to see the drugs, but Mr Hood claims he no idea what they were talking about.

Mr Hood, who describes himself as an anti-drugs fitness fanatic, thought they had the wrong man and volunteered his property and body to be searched.

The officers told Mr Hood they were interested in him due to social media, but never asked for his phone or computer, his legal team said.

Police found a few thousand pounds in cash in his apartment that his new employer paid him in cash while his bank account was being set up, Mr Hood said.

This was confirmed by his bosses and written in his contract, lawyers acting for Mr Hood said.

Officers also arrested Mr Hood's friend when they discovered him in the apartment.

Mr Hood allowed police to search his company car and gave a urine sample as he believed he had nothing to hide.

Using CBD oil in a vape is legal in Britain and is often used to relieve pain, anxiety and stress, but as it still has traces of THC - the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis - Mr Hood was detained under the UAE’s strict drug laws

He was reportedly transferred to Al Barsha police station and kept in an isolation cell for 14 days without any contact with the outside world.

Mr Hood has now been prosecuted and sentenced for 25 years for trafficking, supplying and possession and has been held at the police station for nine months.

After initially refusing to sign a confession at the behest investigating CID when he was taken to a holding cell, Mr Hood eventually gave in after four days of pressure

Mr Hood, who used to play for semi-pro Kensington and Ealing Borough FC, said he told police when he was asked about the bottles: “To my knowledge, it is normal vape oil.

When he first refused to sign the document and asked for an English translation, the head officer laughed and told him, “if you do not sign, you will never leave CID,” his legal team said.

Officers tested the urine sample and it came back negative, but after four days of being detained Mr Hood agreed to sign the statement without knowing what it said.

In a statement to his lawyers, Detained in Dubai, Mr Hood said: “I had just moved to a new home in Dubai and a friend of mine came around to see my new place.

“I ordered a food delivery then went to my car to get a second phone charger for him to use when I was suddenly approached by police.

“They jumped out to arrest me, handcuffed me. One officer jumped out and pointed a Taser at me, threatening to use it if I didn’t cooperate.

They demanded I show them where the drugs are. I was shocked, scared and confused.

“I told them I wasn’t aware or in possession of any drugs or substances. They wanted to search my car then my apartment and found nothing.

"The next evening, I was taken to Al Barsha police station and kept in an isolation cell for 14 days without any hygiene products. I had no contact with the outside world.”

The sportsman could not believe he was being accused of something he is "wholeheartedly against", adding: “I do not smoke vape pens, cigarettes or even shisha.

“I coach football six to seven days a week. I am always working with kids and in schools all over Dubai.

"From age 16, I played football at a professional level for more than two years. I have always had a zero tolerance on any drugs or illegal substances.

“For me to be accused of promoting and selling drugs in a country that has the same beliefs and values as me is very upsetting as it affects my future.

“One of the main reasons I moved to the UAE was to pursue my coaching career. I have spent six-plus years collecting my coaching badges and would never let something such as drugs ruin everything.”

Breda, Mr Hood's mother, described the trauma the family have suffered over the last nine months and begged Sheikh Mohammed, the vice president and prime minister of the UAE, to intervene in the case.

The 55-year-old teaching assistant said: “If he doesn’t win his appeal, we will never be the same. We will have lost our beloved Billy.

“I have hidden myself away, crying and crying when I imagine what our sweet boy is going through.

“It is the worst stress I've ever been through and I feel helpless. He's always been such a good boy and has never been troublesome.

“He helps out children, coaches and volunteers. He's never been into drugs, ever. It is impossible that he is guilty of the allegations against him.

“Please investigate this case, Sheikh Mohammed. My son does not deserve to lose his whole life over CBD oil that wasn't even his.

“The FCO [British foreign office] has done nothing to help us. We are so disappointed. After learning of the other cases where people have been set up by police or falsely accused of a crime, I can't believe the British government has not put this in their travel warnings.

“Would people still go to Dubai if they knew they could lose their freedom even though they've followed the law?

“I know my son wouldn't have. The FCDO [Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office] needs to tell British citizens and give them the information to decide whether to take the risk or not.”

Billy’s brother, Alexander, has set up a GoFundMe page in a bid to raise money for his legal fees and has so far raised just over £11,000.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brit-jailed-25-years-dubai-25197341

Ear Wax Removal outrage

In the UK, the NHS used to provide a "free" ear shringing service at the doctors surgery; they stopped this so now one has to go a private service to have them vaccuum cleaned at a cost of £85 to £110

Flowers and wine SCAM

 

Tolerance of cannabis is growing just as scientists show that it can cause insanity

 As long ago as 1896 these claims were made about inmates of mental hospitals in India that used cannabis - the first UK Royal Commission, the Indian Hemp Drugs commission looked into those claims and concluded that cannabis actually helped many and also that the mental health problems often led people to use cannabis to find relief, and cannabis was legal there in those days. There have been numerous other studies into cannabis and mental health and although there is some evidence that a small number of people with mental health problems get worse through uncontrolled consumption of cannabis with high THC and low CBD content, on the whole the reports failed to prove any detrimental effect to the vast majority of consumers.

In addition I would emphasize that even in cases where it may be true, that is no reason to punish either those people or those that benefit from cannabis consumption - it is a matter of health and should not be a mater of law. The criminalisation of millions of people that have done no harm cannot be justified because a minority may have suffered ill effects; otherwise alcohol would have been banned from non-medicinal production or supply many years ago, including home brewing.

Indian Hemp Drugs Commission

Tolerance of cannabis is growing just as scientists show that it can cause insanity 
The Independent, October 12 2021

Supporters of cannabis legalisation are like the tobacco companies denying the link between smoking and cancer

 

 

Italy to hold referendum on decriminalizing cannabis after 500,000 sign petition in a week

 Italy to hold referendum on decriminalizing cannabis after 500,000 sign petition in a week

A good result but a referendum can be determined by public opinion led by the rich and powerful that want control and profit and are happy to provide inaccurate and false information - look what happened with UK and Brexit.

It can also fly in the face of Human Rights and Justice, which ought to be the priority, and leave the supply and control in the hands of Government and / or big industry. Human Rights must be applied and adhered to irrespective of public opinion.

The essential question that must be pushed during the lead up to the referendum is the question: why should the law punish a person for doing something that does no harm to others? Why should people's private lives and beliefs be interfered with by government or other authorities unless in the interests of public health, public order or the Rights of others, as demanded by Human Rights laws?

And of course if possession of cannabis ceases to be an offence in law, where will people obtain it? Will they be allowed to grow their own, grow for others, collective grows and will there be legal commercial or other supplies for those unable to grow their own? The latter leads us to ask what controls and consumer protection will be put on those suppliers? Will it be put into the hands of big pharmaceutical businesses or others?

VIDEO: Alun Buffry from the earliest days

Norwich City council will not be accepting donations from the Garden House pub to help the few Afghan refugee families

 on local radio yesterday that the Norwich City council will not be accepting donations from the Garden House pub to help the few Afghan refugee families being housed in Norwich ! No real reason given apart from they need furniture and household items and are not looking to individual or communities for those donations. Crazy? 

 

Norwich pub owner disappointed after food boxes for Afghan refugees rejected

Norwich pub to support Afghan refugees

ISMOKE at Product Earth 2021

Out of Joint - 20 Years Campaigning for Cannabis

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UK Cannabis News

UK Cannabis News: I do not know about the wording of the laws other countries but here in the UK the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 states that the possession, cultivation / production, supply of cannabis and cannabis products containing THC without licence is unlawful.

Many f us believe it is important to explain that it is the human activities that are supposedly “controlled” by law, not cannabis (or other specified substances / drugs) not cannabis itself.

Cannabis is a substance / plant and cannot be legal or illegal, criminalised or decriminalised.

Nevertheless, campaigners, journalists, MP’s and even the legal profession, continue to use words such as “legalise cannabis” or “cannabis is illegal”. We believe those phrases can dehumanise the legal situation. It is people that are punished by the courts.

Recently several prosecutions for possession (one for 1 ounce and 1 for 6 ounces) have been dropped by the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) after the Defence demanded that the CPS produce the “foundation evidence” upon which the inclusion of cannabis as a “controlled) and classified, scheduled drug in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and other legislation. The CPS, the ACMD (Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drug) and the Home Office has said that such evidence no longer exists. This may mean that many cases will be dropped.

OUTLAW of Manchester has put together a strong legal team and case to bring a Judicial Review on the Misuse of Drugs Act and its application, and raised the money for the case and surety against its failure. It is possible that the Judicial Review with rule against the Misuse of Drugs Act making future prosecutions unworkable and previous prosecutions and punishments unlawful as far back as 1971. The case may be due in court within weeks.

Meanwhile, there has ben an increase in private prescriptions through private companies that charge consultation fees, evidence of diagnosis and two previously proposed treatments, selling cannabis bud at prices ranging from £5 to £15 per gram. Many people are now receiving prescription cannabis though the post. This is in addition to Sativex which is supplied to a very limited number of people at charges through the NHS.

Another incentive is the “CanCard” which is sold under similar criteria to people that wish to use cannabis to treat their ailments but are unable to obtain it on prescription. These cards are sold at £30 each plus an annual renewal fee of £20 – hugely profitable for the producers of CanCard. They claim that production of the card at point of stop and search will persuade police to use their power of discretion and not arrest, and claim that many police forces are working within this incentive. But whilst people receiving cannabis legally through private or NHS prescription would not need the card, the card does not cover cultivation or supply.

The WTU (We The Undersigned) attempt to bring legal action against the Government over the abuse of Human Rights when the MODA is applied has come to a halt due to lack of funding – the legal advisor has stated that such a case may cost up to £150,000 and the Government may ask the court to demand a surety against failure of the case to cover Government costs of up to £250,000. Also waiting to see the Outcome of the Outlaw case.

https://www.outlaw.ltd/

https://www.wtuhq.org/

 https://ccguide.org/news/default.php

 

 

 

A Convenient Truth by Alun Buffry

To those that have yet to find peace and fulfilment in their lives - in essence we are all the same, that peace is within us all.

When we have felt love, peace, joy and fulfilment, we have felt it within ourselves, not outside by whatever seems to have enabled it to be experienced.

When we have not felt it, maybe because external circumstances are not the way we want them to be, it is still within us - sometimes it takes just a sigh to feel it again, sometime we cannot. Maybe we are not then able to look in the right place. Maybe, like most things in life, we need help and guidance.

So who will show us, where should we look and how - and maybe important to some, how much will it cost, how much effort will it take, how much will be have to sacrifice? and will it actually work for me?

It seems maybe too good to believe, that peace is possible; we have our doubts. so much in this world has promised so much but has already let us down.

So when somebody comes along and says, listen, I can show you, we are so reluctant.

Even though we believe so much advertising, so many empty promises and even though if somebody we know and trust says "taste this", "smoke that", go there, listen to that, read that, watch that film, we so readily take their advice.

Religions don't always work - they often cause people to live in fear or under strict rules: much of science too, is a religion, maybe not with so much fear or so many rules, but requiring beliefs and, a shame, that so often those beliefs do not give us the peace and fulfilment we want.

Think abut it, why do we do what we do, go where we go, follow instructions and ambitions - where are we hoping to go, what are we looking for? Peace? Joy? Love? Freedom? Satisfaction? Knowledge? just how far will we go, just how long a journey would we make, just how much would we do, or even pay, for those things, those feelings and experiences.

So if somebody says, listen, I tell you in truth - this is the way to go - and it costs nothing but a little effort and patience - to be shown how to achieve all that, to find what we want, what everybody wants, that is already within just waiting to be experienced again - who will listen?

Who REALLY wants to KNOW?

Hermes courier services

 you make it almost impossible to contact you as both on-line ai chat and phone number ask for tracking number from confirmation email which then says not recognised - you were supposed to pick up our parcel 4 days ago, no show, no card, nothing, and we have paid - so please sort out your customer services IF you want customers

OTP - one time passcode on on-line banking

 how about giving us a little more time with that OTP security measure on on-line banking? By the time i get the text, open it and scroll to code, I have less than 10 seconds to type in the random code, usually run out of time and have to do it again; sometimes 2 or 3 times - give us please at least a minute from sending text, some of us oldies are slowing down.

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Report: Cost of Cannabis Prohibition in the UK

VIDEO: A UK Cannabis Activism Retrospective

 

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The Simpa Life Interview with Alun Buffry and Winston Matthews: Cannabis Campaiging

 https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=3871469946271962&ref=watch_permalink

 

Free Pencils at Polling Stations

 millions of pencils have been bought so that each voter can use one and place it in a box at the end - I wonder what will happen to them? Maybe they can be cleaned or left to stand for a couple of months and donated to schools in countries such as Egypt; i know they need them as the children find that their ballpoint pens quickly dry up.

 

PIGS, The Enemies of Legalisation

 

P is for paranoia and fear of persecution. This prevents cannabis users and non-users with a huge barrier to overcome before they can publicly speak out against prohibition. Users fear raids from the police and arrest, loss of employment and even imprisonment. Many professional people such as Doctors, Teachers, Lawyers, Probation Officers, Social Workers etc, although privately supporting legalisation or some lesser from of change in law, are afraid of persecution from people in power and the press. MP's of all parties can be silenced and pressurised to change their statements, by the Party Whips. Many Doctors quietly advise patients that cannabis is of possible benefit to them but will not make a public statement on the issue. If you are one of those professionals please speak out and help call an end to the suffering caused to hundreds of thousands of citizens of the UK, every year, under the inefficient and expensive attempts at suppressing freedom of choice, in general, cannabis in particular. If you are a user, fear not, for to express an opinion on the law is not an offense and does not indicate that you are a user. Many non-users advocate legalisation too.

 

I is for indifference and for ignorance. Many non-users and people who are alienated from society through illness, poverty or riches and power, remain unconcerned or unaware of the disastrous social and environmental effects of prohibition. These people need to be awoken. Many of them are on drugs - heroin addicts, alcoholics, Valium addicts, at all rungs of the social ladder; they just don't care. But others do care, they just either don't know or don't know what they can do. It is up to activists to educate and guide these people to the postbox and the ballot boxes. Then, when they do care, we need to reassure them to avoid them slipping into the description of P.

 

G is for greed. These are the highly profit-motivated suppliers of illegal cannabis, often of dubious quality, and those directors (and their minions) of the multinational corporations that profit by billions from their environmentally damaging synthetic and dangerous alternatives. These include petroleum companies who risk losses if hemp seed oil becomes widely available; pharmaceutical companies who would lose out if people take less of their synthetic drugs and more home grown cannabis; plastics and synthetic materials companies whose products could be replaced locally from locally grown cannabis; nuclear fuel and fossil fuel companies whose products could also be replaced by locally grown cannabis, far more efficiently and cheaply than for all modern fuels; timber companies who fear that cannabis would replace wood as a material for furnishing as well as paper and packing materials; breweries and tobacco companies who fear that the use of home grown cannabis would decrease the sales of their highly dangerous legal drugs; national and international criminal and terrorist organisations who profit from illegal cannabis, possibly even the secret services of certain countries (not yours, of course); police, solicitors, barristers, judges and prison staff, with all the associated industry at colossal public expense, who may be out of a job is 250,000 less people are searched and 100,000 less prosecuted, annually.

 

S is for squabblers and for separation.. Those people who continually insist upon arguing over matters of minor or academic differences which distract from the general cause of delay action towards the consensus aim of legalisation. Such arguments are divisive and unproductive, often originating from personal grievances. Some times such arguments are introduced by insincere campaigners, even infiltrators from corners supporting prohibition, whose aim is to suppress by division and mistrust. Other times the arguments may be prolonged by sincere people. When the squabble, due to personal grievances, interferes with actions of the general movement for legalisation, or any particular event or group, then the squabblers become enemies of the movement.

 

Don't be any part of PIGS. Wake up, learn, act, cooperate, become involved in this movement which is all about freedom of choice, lifestyle and religion. It is about the very rights granted by the United Nations Charters. Prohibition of cannabis is a prolonged attempt at mis-education and tyrannical control, and must be resisted by the masses.

The Fight for Rights and Freedom of Choice by Phil Monk and We The Undersigned

 

 Available on Amazon

ISBN 978 18384401 1 4

CAMPAIGNING FOR JUSTICE

 The problem is and always has been that the law is run by people paid to perpetuate the system, good or bad, there are many businesses from the legal profession through the pharmaceutical industry and synthetics and fuel producers to illegal suppliers that have and wish to continue to make huge profits. Just look at how long it took Phil to find just ONE solicitor that would even take on the case, just look at how solicitors want their clients to plead guilty, how so few barristers would risk arguing with a judge, how judges misdirect the jury, how they want to side-step any challenge to the law itself and want to avoid consideration of Human Rights, how Tories and Labour parties consistently ignore evidence an spout the same nonsense, how the Church refuses to help us .... for sure under a tyrannical government backed by profiteers and ruling population most of whom are afraid the "rock the boat", OUR OPPONENT IS MASSIVE, well financed and backed by armed forces.

But none of that is new, it's been like that for decades -and even when people stood us as candidates in elections, most consumers did not vote for them; every campaign has been underfunded - there has been more raise din FINES than for all the campaign groups put together, ... then there's Cancard, the success of which (at least in marketting the cards) is due to fear of arrest and weak promises of get-out-of-jail-free.

So, for me, it is a constant ISSUE - do I bother carrying on campaigning when quite clearly most consumers don't give a damn unless it's to ease their own suffering, or avoid their own arrest?

That's why so many campaigners have dropped out - basically due to lack of support from what some (wrongly in my opinion) call the cannacommunity or cannafamily (surely not family of millions that won't help).

Nobody said our route was going to be easy - I said years ago at a conference that it was like a few people pushing a truck up a hill whilst others sat on the wall clapping instead of helping, each with their own reason for not actually helping, and then the people pushing stopped, the truck rolled back down the hill and people came and built obstacle on the road so if people started pushing again it would be even harder.

Then of course there are the go's running the campaign groups that all say "we want the same" but won't actually help or prefer to argue over tactics!

One would think with 4 millions consumers raising even half a million should be possible. With 250,000 people having signed a petition that JUST £2 each; with BILLIONS spent on cannabis every year ....

ONE OF THAT IS ENCOURAGING IS IT?

So we must each make our decision on what we do, do we help or not, or just leave it up to others?

For me it's a burn - I see INJUSTICE and I want to stop it and that is WHAT DRIVES ME - my inspiration comes from within me, nobody else although it does help and inspires me to see others TRYING.

Kier Starmer you have lost my Labour vote

 Dear Mr Starmer,

I will not be voting Labour under  a leadership that wants to lock up victimless cannabis users.  Your policy flies in the face a natural justice, Human Rights and scientific evidence.

Sir Keir Starmer says he opposes relaxing drugs laws and insists he is ‘proud’ to be patriotic

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Man with Tourette's uses legal cannabis UK march 2021

HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998

 

STATEMENT

HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998

ARTICLE 8:

Right to respect for private and family life

1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

ARTICLE 9:

Freedom of thought, conscience and religion

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.

2. Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/schedule/1

UNLESS it can be shown that the possession or cultivation of cannabis for own use or the consumption and / or sharing of cannabis alone or with others, poses a risk to “public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others”, then any interference by any authority with the Rights under Article 8 and 9 IS CONTRARY TO Human Rights Act 1998, and CONSTITUTES AN OFFENCE IN LAW.

 

Campaign to stop people growing their own cannabis at home

 I was thinking of starting a campaign to arrest all the people in the UK that defy the law and grow their own cannabis or possess and consume cannabis even in their own homes ....

 ... then I thought, oh yeah, there's been a campaign like that going on since at least the 1960's

and what's more it has had BILLIONS of pounds made available by all the Governments since then, thousands of police available at their call, supported by BOTH the two large UK political parties, members and leaders of churches and the media ...

 

and yet they have FAILED miserably - not only that but they have opened up an illicit market for far more risky substances and driven people to addictive, dangerous and often weakly effective pharmaceutical prescription pills

 

plus there are more people growing and consuming cannabis than ever before, even smoking it in the parks and on the streets PLUS they have opened the gateway for large criminal organisations that sell at high prices and often bad quality and contaminated cannabis

 

an estimated 300,000 people growing and several million regular consumers, with just about 135,000 police in England and Wales ....

 

What a costly, ineffective and badly run campaign that has been!

 

And people say the campaign to legalise cannabis has gotten nowhere.

 

Thing is we, every one of us in some way, has paid for that prohibition enforcement campaign and few of us have contributed to the anti-prohibition campaign. Just imagine if the legalisation campaigns had even a tiny fraction of what we have paid in taxes to enforce a law against ourselves.

 

 

In Memory of Don Barnard RIP

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021: protest powers factsheet

Referring to The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021 and control over protests

Phil Monk of We The Undersigned, wrote on his Facebook page:

"I wish I knew how to stop the Bill !

"Heading Into a new level of legislation of control that has just changed our campaigning landscape completely

 

"A whole load of new laws and rights (what remain) need to become familiar with to not fall foul of them

 

"Some truly sinister recent legislation that Britain is becoming a Corporatocratic policed State

 

"My Gut tells me we need to start uniting into a new political part or to engage with and help grow a different suitable party

 

"But the entire system is rotten to the core...meaning all this could inevitably result in a dystopian empoverished British nation with hardships leading to violent uprising and insurrection of a super wealthy and power abusing elite

 

"This could all be a great novel if not such a,disturbing reality

 

"It seems there has been a lot of controlled opposition to rob the People of their rights in the guise of protecting public health.

 

"I suppose we could arrange carnivals instead or silent protests?"

My reply:

"There is nothing new in this; it has been planned for decades and somewhat an inevitable attempt by the Governments, not only ours, to keep control in a world where population is growing so fast with such damage by industry to individuals and inevitable protests over the environmental and economic collapses that capitalism leads to - hence the drive by people such as Elon Musk to get us off the planet and whilst we are still here, trace our every move and word and limit our freedom and control our money, education, communication, transport and even entertainment - "they" already control the news and rug elections.

 

"Fact is freedom is mostly an inner experience - I reckon I was one of the most free men in prison because I refused to see it as them locking me up - I used to bang my own cell door closed before they had the chance; and lockdown which to me has never been lockdown just restrictions has not been a problem, because I am not a number, I am a free man, even when locked up.

 

"That does not mean that I approve of what the tyrants are doing or will not resist, it means I will not let them grind me down."

 

 

A message of peace, love, joy, contentment and understanding

 

Seems to me that so many people live their lives in fear - that is why insurance business booms. People are scared to not take a vaccine and others are scared to take it. People that know cannabis will help ease their suffering are scared to try it. People buy make up and deodorants because they are scared they may look ugly or smell natural (try washing!). People are scared of groups of youths on the streets, or foreigners, scared of not conforming. And government and advertising agencies perpetuated that.

Why do we live our lives in fear. Christianity tells us God is within, as does Islam, Hinduism, Jains and Jews; Buddhists tell us the whole universe is within. Why then do people feel weak and vulnerable.We know life ends, inevitably, for all of us

We know that this world will never give us the love and peace and freedom that we all want. Even the most rich and famous and powerful, healthy and strong, never get what they want from this world.

Most of us have felt love and peace and contentment and it is so obvious that we felt it inside ourselves, not outside. Maybe outer circumstances enabled us to experience those inner feelings for a while and doing more and more of the same thing or relying on outer circumstances does not work.

So why does it take us so long to WAKE up and realise that the smell of the coffee, or whatever,maybe outside but after a while it wears off and all along it was the APPRECIATION that was vital.

When will we learn that those inner experiences exist all the time, every second, if we can only tune into them without having to change the outer world. That we can feel love and peace EVEN when there is no love or peace outside. That we can feel joy and contentment even when not everything outside is perfect.

So the only question is really - HOW? Who has that key and how can we get it.

There may be lots of ways, maybe lots of people that can show us how, give us a gift we already have.

I know of only one in my lifetime and what he showed to me is still of such tremendous value to me which is why I want to help others to find it, within themselves. His name is Prem Rawat

https://www.premrawat.com/peak-know-yourself