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As over 300 people sit on death row in Malaysia, many of them for relatively minor cannabis dealing charges, a delegation of protesters against the death penalty, especially for social drug offences such as cannabis dealing, had a brief but friendly meeting with Malaysian Embassy officials today in London. A statement from ENCOD which is...
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Tomorrow, 4 March 2010, the following statement will be printed in the Malaysian newspaper The Sun and presented during picket-line manifestations in front of the Malaysian Embassies and consulates in Copenhagen, Kathmandu, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris and (on 8 March 2010) Vienna. If you want to contribute, please copy this letter and send...
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MALAYSIA is to be the target of international protests at the Malaysian government’s mandatory death penalty policy for drug trafficking on Thursday March 4th. Peaceful protests are planned at Malaysian Embassies in cities worldwide, including Britain (London), Denmark (Copenhagen) France (Paris), USA (New York & LA) and Nepal (Kathmandu). There will also be protests at...
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Dear Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, It is with the greatest respect to you and your country and it’s legal system that we write to you today in the hope that your government will join the vast majority of UN member nations and urgently reconsider your current use of the death penalty, in particular for...
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Flying into Kuala Lumpur with Malaysia Airlines there is an announcement: “Drug Trafficking carries a mandatory death penalty. Welcome to Malaysia.” Malaysia would definitely kill for pot. In Malaysia, as in 21 other countries in the world, people who use or possess relatively small quantities of drugs, including cannabis, are sentenced to death. These...
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Marc Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine, could be finally extradited from Canada to the inhuman US Gulag prison system as early as this week. Marc is currently out on bail after 52 days waiting in a Canadian jail to be extradited (see interview below). However, unless the Canadian authorities have a last minute change...
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A Facebook group organised by the US campaigning organisation NORMAL is aiming high – they plan to get 5 million members to pressure Obama to legalise marijuana. They say: “OBAMA was originally for the decriminalization of marijuana but, soon after talking to his advisers he changed his position. We hope Obama will stand for what he...
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Is it just coincidence that within the space of just two days, two of the leading organisers of the annual Global Marijuana March, first Marc Emery (28th Oct) and then (30th Oct) Dana Beal (above, photo New York Times) have been arrested and are now both behind bars, at the mercy of the...
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“Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.” Will Rogers
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