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| Dear
Campaigner, You
have probably heard in the news recently that Colin Davis recently opened
the 'Dutch Experience' cannabis cafe in Stockport. Following
the Home Secretary David Blunkett's announcement that he proposed
that cannabis
be reclassified as a class C drug within the Misuse of Drugs Act
1971, Colin
and his Dutch partner announced that the cafe would open and sell cannabis to
"recreational users" in order to help finance the free supply to
people in dire medical need. Colin
Davis is the man who has been found not guilty of supplying cannabis on the grounds
of medical necessity and who handed the Queen a bouquet of flowers with cannabis
buds. The
Dutch Experience was closed within minutes of opening and Colin was arrested (NB
after a struggle with police during which Colin who suffers from spinal injuries,
was hurt badly). But that did not keep the cafe closed for long! Colin
was put on bail on condition that he did not sell cannabis at the cafe, but was
arrested again along with others during a police raid a few weeks ago. Since
then, Colin has been placed on remand in Strangeways Prison. Colin
is of course not able to get his herbal medicine in prison and suffered so much
pain that he was transferred to the hospital wing and given - believe it or not
- morphine! Despite
several protests in Stockport and further arrests which included disabled people
in wheelchairs, Colin has been refused bail and is still locked up. IT
IS SURELY TIME FOR US TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS APPALLING INJUSTICE! Of
course visits to the cafe are welcome as is attendance at one of the demonstrations
| planned
over the next few weeks, but we can do a little more by EXPRESSING OUR FEELINGS
AND OPINIONS TO THE PRESS AND THE CPS. I
would suggest that you write from the angle that, bearing in mind his previous
not-guilty verdicts in Manchester Crown Court, the Home Secretary's proposals
and public opinion, IT IS NOT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST TO KEEP COLIN IN
PRISON. Please
write as many letters - and get your friends to do the same. |
