CANNABIS CAMPAIGNERS MARCH ON CITY

MORE than 200 people marched through Manchester to protest against the
imprisonment of the man behind the city's first Dutch-style marijuana cafe.

The campaigners openly smoked the drug in front of around a dozen mounted
police officers who patrolled the demonstration.

The protest was in support of Colin Davies, who has been in custody
awaiting trial on drugs charges since November last year, after he opened
the Dutch Experience in Stockport in September. Mr Davies' trial is due to
begin on June 24.

The march, on Saturday, tied in with Global Cannabis Action Day, which
calls for legalisation of the drug.