PROTESTERS URGE BONGS NOT BOMBS

CAMPAIGNERS for the legalisation of cannabis marched through central London
yesterday carrying banners urging 'Bongs Not Bombs'.

Speakers at the rally in Trafalgar Square included Labour MP Paul Flynn as
well as Howard Marks, the convicted drugs smuggler turned popular speaker
and best selling author.

Demonstrators handed out copies of Properganja, the newspaper of the
Cannabis Coalition UK, which organised the event. The group wants cannabis
to be legalised and sold through licensed premises and non-profit making
co-operatives.

Campaigners also called for the clearing of all cannabis-related criminal
records dating back to 1928, the year in which the drug was outlawed in
Britain.

A spokesman said: "The recent progress towards decriminalisation is to be
welcomed but only a complete, total lifting of prohibition and allowing
social consumption will do."