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    PRESS RELEASE. Cannabis Truth Roadshow In Carmarthen, Saturday 1st October 2011

     

    CANNABIS TRUTH ROADSHOW IN CARMARTHEN, SATURDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2011

    Cannabis Law Reform (CLEAR), the UK political party, is bringing the truth about cannabis to Carmarthen this coming Saturday, 1st October 2011.

    The roadshow will be setting up in Guild Hall Square from 10.00am. There will be speeches, Q&A sessions, informative leaflets and personal testimonies from those who use cannabis as medicine.

    Jonathan Edwards and Simon Hart, local MPs, have been invited to speak. Local councillors from Labour, LibDem and Plaid Cymru as well as independents have been invited. Local newspapers, Radio Carmarthen and BBC Wales will be covering the story.

    CLEAR seeks an end to the prohibition of cannabis, most urgently on a doctor’s prescription. It also advocates a safer, more responsible system of regulation which would protect children and the vulnerable, bring an end to illegal and destructive cannabis farming and cut out organised crime from the streets of Britain.

    On 14th September 2011, CLEAR published a study from the Independent Drug Monitoring Unit (IDMU) which shows that a tax and regulate policy on cannabis would reduce all health and social harms while contributing a net gain of £6.7 billion per annum to the UK exchequer. This is an enormous sum of money, equivalent to three times the annual budget of the Department of Energy. CLEAR also published highly detailed proposals for how regulation would work. Full details of this research and the proposals will be available at the roadshow.

    Most importantly the roadshow aims to tell the truth about cannabis:

    - the huge proportion of society that uses cannabis safely without any problems
    - the colossal waste of public money spent on the prohibition of cannabis
    - the real risks to health and how they compare to alcohol and tobacco
    - the proven medicinal benefits of cannabis which offer hope and relief to so many
    - the cruel government policy that denies the sick and disabled access to medicine they need
    - the government misinformation, propaganda and deceit about cannabis
    - the unlawful monopoly granted to GW Pharmaceuticals based on a unique licence that is denied to anyone else
    - the lies, scaremongering nonsense and prejudice about cannabis that are promoted in the tabloid press
    - the enormous benefits that cannabis could offer to Britain if it was properly regulated

    See the Facebook page for The Cannabis Truth Roadshow: www.facebook.com/CannaTruthRoadshow

    For further information please contact CLEAR:

    Peter Reynolds               peterreynolds@clear-uk.org                    +44(0)7880 872022

    See the CLEAR website at www.clear-uk.org

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    • Mark

      Good luck Peter. The more people that know the truth the better.

    • http://www.facebook.com/ironicbliss Paul Price

      The truth for me is psychosis. And probably being on anti-psychotic drugs for the rest of my life. I look forward to Saturday. Truth is a two way street.

    • Mark

      I appreciate that, I feel for you. 

      A couple of years I was paranoid/anxiety ridden, heard voices etc (Psychiatrist said not from cannabis after he released me from his care). I Was on anti-psychotic drugs myself to dampen down the dopamine  levels. Truth is it sapped my much needed energy and robbed me of my sex drive/life. I gave up cannabis for over a year under recommendation and it made no difference to my condition.
      I found recently the most valuable thing is to keep my energy levels up as much as possible and I do this by exercising every day for an hour. Also I spend as much time around family and close friends, who I can speak freely with.

      I use a bong/vaporiser now and use indica’s (sometimes sativa’s) and find it calms me down, especially good for anxiety and insomnia. Believe me, if I had the symptoms come back I’d definitely lay off the weed for a while. I find a week off every month or so keeps things sensible.I found a substance MUCH worse for psychosis is MDMA.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Derek-Williams/1072934911 Derek Williams

      Paul – before you jump to conclusions about CLEAR’s position on cannabis and mental health, read this: “Does cannabis make you mad?”
      http://clear-uk.org/does-cannabis-make-you-mad/ 

    • Doobz

      Was the prohibition of cannabis any benefit to your medical condition?