The UK Has a Brand New Cannabis Political Party and I Went to the Launch Party | VICE | United Kingdom
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When you think of the smell of cannabis, as familiar to some London streets as sirens and the night bus, you don't really think of Tottenham Court Road. For all its alternative religion and dodgy electronics shops, TCR is still part of the culturally bankrupt tourist heart of London. But it's here, in a back alley behind the Burger King-Boots megacomplex, that CISTA, a new political party dedicated to the legalisation of cannabis in the UK, is holding its launch event.
The party is in glass-half-full flow when I arrive. "Eighty people signed up on Eventbrite," one of their organisers tells me, "but we'd be happy with half of that." The venue, CrowdShed, is full of little pockets of men sipping Peronis and, presumably, talking about weed. There are four women in the room, including a journalist from the Evening Standard. The...
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