Pubdate: Fri, 12 Apr 2002
Source: Evening Courier (UK)
Copyright: 2002 The Halifax Courier Ltd.
Contact:  http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/918
Cited: Phil Lockwood and the Legalise Cannabis Alliance http://www.lca-uk.org

CONFERENCE TALK BY DRUG ACTIVIST

CANNABIS campaigner Philip Lockwood addressed a conference of  "weed" 
activists at a Norwich university.

Mr Lockwood, 44, of Waring Green, Brighouse, attended the third annual 
party conference of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA) at the University 
of East Anglia on Saturday.

Mr Lockwood, 44, stood as the LCA candidate for the Calder Valley at the 
last General Election and plans to open a cannabis cafe in Calderdale by 
the end of the year.

"It was a successfu1 conference that produced a lot of very positive ideas, 
there were a lot of positive people there," said Mr Lockwood.

He said although a Home Office select committee was expected to recommend 
the drug be reclassified from Class B to Class C campaigners must keep 
fighting for decriminalisation.

"We talked about classification and said it was not a battle won, it was 
just the thin end of the wedge and we had to keep pushing."

About 350 people came from as far as Scotland and Cornwall to attend, they 
included a number of students, pensioners, a church minister and 
conservative councillor.
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