DRUG PUSHERS BLAMED FOR SABOTAGING POSTER CAMPAIGN

A POSTER campaign for a talk on The Truth About Marijuana is being
sabotaged by people pulling down the notices in Forest Row.

But residents supporting the talk are fighting back and replacing the
vanishing white, A5 posters with even larger A4, bright yellow notices.

Organisers believe the sabotage could be the work of drug dealers in the
village and said the posters are being taken down just as quickly as they
are put up.

They are also inspecting all noticeboards in the village on a regular basis
to replace the posters.

Supporter Kenneth Eckersley of Plaw Hatch Lane said the first talk was so
successful they decided to

run a second. He said of the problem with the posters: "When we put the
posters up this time they started disappearing and we cottoned on to the
fact that it wasn't just the wind. "Eventually we figured that someone did
not want us to do this lecture."

Mr Eckersley added that 18 per cent of the population nationally are
reportedly on drugs of some sort, whether prescribed or illegally, and that
half of this figure is cannabis.

He said: "Pushers are as much victims as the people who they sell to. The
message is that you are not going to win this.

"Often they need the victims to feed their own habit and would not want
posters like this up."

The talk by US schools drug prevention lecturer Bobby Wiggins will be
taking place at the village hall on Sunday at 4pm.