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.