Pubdate: Fri, 06 Apr 2001
Source: Essex Chronicle (UK)
Copyright: 2001 Quicksilver Media
Contact:  http://www.thisisessex.co.uk
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1317
Cited: Legalise Cannabis Alliance http://www.lca-uk.org

BUSTER TO STAND ON CANNABIS TICKET

THE Legalise Cannabis Alliance has announced it has selected Michael 
(Buster) Nolan as its prospective parliamentary candidate to fight the 
Braintree seat in the next General Election, which now looks likely to take 
place on June 7.

Mr Nolan, who fought Braintree  as  a  New Millennium New Way candidate in 
1997, said: "I want to dispel the myths surrounding the cannabis plant. It 
is not only about the right to smoke cannabis.

Campaigning

"I have been campaigning for many years about the ever worsening state of 
our trees and how the hemp plant will save them - and us. Let's not forget 
trees provide us with the air we breathe.

"Timber merchants, paper manufacturers and petro-chemical industries are 
destroying our forests and the environment.

"I believe the planting of cannabis hemp with tree planting programmes in 
the UK will restore vitality and jobs in the local communities."

The county council election has been postponed until June 7.  The Home 
Office says nominations will remain valid for the new date and fresh 
nominations can be made until noon on May 10.
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