Dear Baroness browning - Minister for crime and anti social behaviour
Baroness BrowningMinister for crime and anti social behaviourMarsham StreetLondon Airstrip 1SW1P 4DF 3rd November 2011CTS Reference M8259/11Dear Baroness Browning.Thank you for your letter of the 27th July 2011 in response to my letter requesting a meeting between Mr Peter Reynolds of Clear and the Prime Minister to enable Mr Reynolds to give the Prime Minister the factual truth about cannabis, as he appears to have become more than slightly confused over this issue; despite his own (non criminalised) use of this substance (along with so many parliamentarians) and his own speeches prior to becoming leader of the Conservatives. The words from Mr Cameron’s first speech in parliament “fresh thinking and a new approach” to drug policy comes to mind, as does “Politicians attempt to appeal to the lowest common denominator by posturing with tough policies and calling for crackdown after crackdown” and then there is “Drugs policy has been failing for decades”; I believe as a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee he stated that the government at the time should initiate a discussion at the United Nations to consider alternative ways ,including the possibility of legalisation and regulation, to tackle the global drugs problem; all of which glow as beacons of hypocrisy in the light of recent claims over “very very toxic cannabis”. This leaves many of us wondering if some agency other than the elected government and its Prime Minister decide our nation’s drug policy.I have also sent you emails with regard to my freedom of information request lodged with the Home Office and James Brokenshire’s reluctance to reply. I believe an email was sent to you on the day you were appointed, I didn’t get any replies until now and I note it still fails to answer the questions over Hortipharm NL Hortipharm NL, it’s ‘licence’ and its Directors. I was however gladdened to read that your officials are working hard to “formulate a response to my other representations” as the responses I have had, even to Freedom of Information requests, have been incomplete and inaccurate. Indeed one FOI become lost for a few months and had to be reissued, I still await a full reply to all the questions contained within my FOI requests the most recent of these are contained in emails sent on the 12th and 16th of May 2011, proper responses are now overdue.I am hoping someone will explain why the British government gave millions of pounds to GW Pharmaceuticals. I believe it is illegal for the government to ‘gift’ public money to fund a private company with a market share above 80%, and then actively promote and protect that company; let alone the 100% protected by criminalising the sick that the government currently favours. Unfortunately the Department of Trade tell me they can’t look into ‘dodgy dealing’ in other governmental departments, not exactly a reissuance of governmental commitment to free and open government or honesty.I am also hoping some one might tell me how much of that £10 million was given to ‘Sam the skunk man’ as he was known to the criminal underworld of Holland’s cannabis growers and cannabis seed producers, of which he was a major player. One who used his ‘licence’ to provide seeds to most of the cannabis seed companies in the Netherlands for around thirty years. He was the only seed breeder who could guarantee the safety of the crop due to his ‘licence’ other breeders, his contemporaries being routinely arrested and their crops seized. AKA Sam Selezny the name on the passport he used when he ‘apparently’ fled the USA and their Drug Enforcement Agency to avoid criminal prosecution. It is publicly claimed he was carrying with him the dubiously obtained Cannabis genetics (250,000 cannabis seeds) and the research of the Sacred seed collective, Santa Cruz, California of which he had been a ‘junior member’ when it was raided by the DEA. AKA David Watson, which is his real name and the one that the DEA was ‘apparently’ looking for him under although for reasons best known to themselves, they never applied to extradite him under, (a DEA undercover employee perhaps) David Watson who introduced Cannabis skunk to Europe. David Watson the director of the discredited Hortipharm NL, who’s claimed licence, was apparently fraudulently obtained. It was withdrawn by the Dutch Government as a consequence and this was ‘prior’ to the UK Governments financing of GW Pharmaceuticals and their attempt to privatise and monopolise the medical cannabis industry by handing over £10 million of taxpayer’s money to obtain these ‘stolen’ genetics; Money from taxpayers who still can’t access this ‘contaminated’ Cannabis medicine but can and are arrested for using natural cannabis medicine.I believe Hortipharms other director is RC Clarke; author of Marijuana Botany – a guide to breeding distinctive cannabis strains, a book that has ‘informed’ most other illegal cannabis seed breeders worldwide. I look forward to some one justifying the lying to the public over our government’s role in handing over millions of taxpayers pounds to two people who could fairly be described as the grandfathers of the illegal indoor cannabis market. Such blatant hypocrisy and double dealing/double standards could only come from British parliamentarians. I am still hoping that someone will tell me; who in Government knew the true nature of the company ‘Hortipharm NL’ it’s illegally obtained and withdrawn licence and also who was aware of the possible criminal nature of this companies directors in particular, David Watson. Unless of course he was/is in fact a DEA agent; (which would explain many things about this ‘Teflon coated’ criminal); who has gone ‘freelance’ and privatised the possibilities of utilising the drug his and every other government, including our own has signed up to destroying in the Opiates act!! An act that makes possession or production of Sativex as illegal as any other type of/ ether of/ ester of/ compound of/ oil of or preparation of cannabis in any form! Licensed or not, as does the British Muse use of Drugs Act!Earl Howe has indeed responded and confirmed that there is essentially no difference in the cannabis contained in Sativex and natural uncontaminated herbal cannabis. Both are cannabis, and cannabis is confirmed as the only ingredient of any medicinal value in O’Shaughnessy tincture or to use it’s rebranded, at great expense to the taxpayer name, Sativex. Which is strange as cannabis apparently has no medical value according to the misuse of drugs act; yet Earl Howe clearly accepts that cannabis is the active ingredient in Sativex and that no medicinal claims are or can be made for any of the other ingredients. I can only presume that either Earl Howe is mistaken or lying about cannabis the only effective medical content in Sativex; something I find hard to believe, considering his positions, by which I mean; Parliamentary under Secretary for Standards (Lords) and the Minister responsible for pharmacy policy at the NHS. The only other conclusion possible is that you are mistaken or lying. The feeble attempt to justify the government’s position that Sativex is a ‘different product’ is ridiculous as is the claimed reason for it to be considered so. By which I mean it is a medicine of quantifiable ingredients, only 5 of the 83 ingredients being at a measured dose which leaves 78 cannabinoids at an unregulated, unquantifiable level. You state in your letter that cannabis is a harmful drug that should not be taken. Am I to deduce from this statement, that the government will continue to refuse to follow the requirements of the UN Opiate act of 1963 to deal with the social and health issues surrounding drug use? That the governments misuse of the UK’s misuse of drugs act, an act that is supposed to be used for the regulation and control of dangerous drugs; not the prohibition of drugs coupled with the criminalisation of some people (over a million and climbing) will continue regardless of common decency and respect for UK citizens who use ‘some’ drugs. That our government will continue to claim that criminalising its citizens without any proper basis in law is, some how, being done to protect people; protecting people being the true basis for and the intension of the UN Opiates Act and the UK’s Misuse of Drugs Act.Perhaps you can give me some credible information over the harms as the Cannabis psychosis theory was found ‘not proven’ by the Keel University study which was funded by the Government and the ACMD. I would also love to see the information upon which your dependences claim is made as cannabis is and always has been considered a drug of non dependence with no withdrawal symptoms.You go on to claim that the ACMD provide independent advice!! This is the same ACMD who’s chair the government sacked for refusing to entertain the official policy of lying to the public over drugs, the same ACMD that had a rash of resignations in protest at Professor Nutts sacking and governmental misrepresentation of the facts. The same ACMD who’s current Chair Professor Les Iverson is on record as stating in an article in 2003 that “cannabis had been incorrectly classified for nearly 50 years and stated that cannabis was one of the safer recreational drugs”. It’s certainly safer than the parliamentarians drugs of ‘snout in the trough’ self interest, alcohol and tobacco, both of which cause death, no deaths have ever been recorded from cannabis, both are harmful to heath, both are addictive and do course irreversible brain damage. You further claim that the supposedly independent ACMD issued the statement in their report that “the use of cannabis is a significant public health issue, cannabis can unquestionably course harm to individuals and society”. I can only presume that you have never read this report and that this quote was furnished you by an advisor as anyone who has read this report would know that your chosen quote goes against the grain of the rest of the report; which does not contain any evidence to back up this statement. Indeed I believe this was included on the insistence of the representative from ACPO who seems to be confusing his responsibilities to factual evidence with ACPO’s desire to protect and preserve the honey pot of funding to the institutions of the state, (Police, Courts and prisons). Cannabis represents a very large portion of the £16 billion dedicated to ruining the lives of some people who use some drugs, via the ‘War on some people who use some drugs’ AKA state sponsored ‘social conformity terrorism’ with the catchy tag ‘War on Drugs’ to disguise the fact it is a war on some people!!The claim that keeping cannabis illegal is to protect the public is farcical. How is allowing free reign to organised crime to pollute / contaminate the drug supply with dangerous adulterants in order to increase their profit, supposed to help protect anyone let alone the vulnerable. My brother died after many years of opiate addiction his body wasn’t destroyed / impaired by the drugs he took but by the contaminate that clogged his veins, destroyed his liver, kidneys and caused abscesses in much of his body. What ID does a modern ten year old need to buy a bag of Heroin or cannabis contaminated with ground glass that can burn a hole in your lung if inhaled hot from a joint? Answer a note with a picture of the Queen on. A regulated drug supply would save the lives of countless people, save countless others from contaminate based harms and consequently save the NHS from long term costs treating these harms. Cannabis properly regulated and taxed as suggested by Cannabis Law Reform in the document on Taxing the UK cannabis market compiled by the Independent Drug Monitoring Unit would offer more protection to the individual, children and society as a whole, than the current policy of feeding the monster of failed prohibition. You claim that the Government balances the rights of the individual on one hand and the greater health and welfare considerations on the other. This statement flies in the face of reality; the harms caused by drug use stem directly from prohibition. From people dying from contaminates to those that die due to suddenly finding some thing pure. From those that are robbed to feed a habit to the child with a note with the Queen on to buy a habit, they are not having their health and welfare considered or their rights as individuals protected. The children even parents of cannabis user’s whether sick or well are not having the rights protected by Police Officers smashing their way into peoples home at all times of the day or night in pointless raids that do nothing to boost respect for the authorities or its institutions,( I have enclosed a letter from my daughter to the courthearing a case against me to further your understanding of this matter, she is from the third generation of my family to suffer state/police home invasion). In fact I suspect cannabis arrests and raids are the single most destructive act that the authorities undertake in the UK today. It cost’s billions when it should be making them, wastes enormous sums of public money in a war on our own population and the only things it generates is growing resentment and mistrust in both democracy and politician’s ‘truths’!Politicians truths brings me nicely to your statements that cannabis has no medical value.Why was £10 million handed over again; the absurdity of this claim is with out comparison, as is the hypocrisy. The UK Government are to put it blatantly engaged in an attempt to privatise and illegally monopolise the medical cannabis industry here in the UK and beyond, they are hand in glove with GW pharmaceuticals who are ‘housed’ at Porton Down and still, I believe involved with the criminals of Hortipharm NL.Our government is willing to allow citizens of all the countries that signed the Schengen agreement to consume natural cannabis as a medicine in the UK yet criminalise UK residents to protect commercial interest; ‘Politicians truths’ appear to be great big fat stinking lies! Perpetuated to protect the vested interest of their partners in a criminal conspiracy to control medical cannabis whilst denying cannabis is a medicine or has any medical properties, then using that augment as an excuse for destroying the lives of the sick and needy via criminalisation, a sicker, sadder conspiracy is hard to imagine but then again we are talking about British politicians aren’t we!The most worrying aspect of this whole situation is that you may already know all this and are still prepared to continue the lie, while I will spend the rest of my life, as the last twenty years, being prosecuted for producing the kinds of seeds bought from Hortipharm NL and hence prevented from doing my own research, earning a living and having a life.I am in court again tomorrow and may not be going home to my wife and family! Yours SincerelyMr P.S.WalshCannabis Criminal
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