Another local weekly paper carried a story and picture of our candidate during the Trident missile protest. And there is absolutely nothing positive about Labour in the local press. New Labour has just announced its intention to shut Mount Vernon Hospital. We are going to join the fight to save it. He was convicted at Bradford crown court in January of cultivating cannabis, despite pleading not guilty on account of his health needs.
Cannabis provides pain relief for a number of serious conditions, including multiple sclerosis.
Phil now faces a possible jail sentence. Some 60 percent of people in a MORI poll supported legalisation of cannabis, and 72 percent in another poll supported decriminalisation. The giant multinationals pushing tobacco and alcohol get away with killing millions of people every year. No one has died from using cannabis. Yet arrests for cannabis use have leapt from about 26,000 in 1988 to more than 97,000 in 1998.