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On the eve of the largest event in the UK cannabis calendar – Product Earth Expo, we invited Stuart Harper and the board of the United Kingdom Cannabis Social Clubs to share their account of the organisations history, and their grassroots activism.
When I tell people about the UK’s cannabis social clubs, I am often, if not always, met with the same reply:
‘We have cannabis clubs in the UK?’
There’s a good reason for this; for decades these groups have elected to operate in secrecy, especially during the times when drug law enforcement was at its most zealous. Many will recall heavy-handed tactics, including beatings given to those caught in possession of small amounts of cannabis. But since the end of the Lambeth experiment in 2001 – where cannabis was effectively decriminalised for a year – we have seen a gradual relaxation in punitive cannabis laws (despite the...
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