Pro-cannabis party to stand in Edinburgh

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A NEW political party campaigning for the legalisation of cannabis is to field a candidate in the Capital at the general election.

Cista – which stands for Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol – was set up just last month but plans to contest around 40 seats across the UK on May 7, including Edinburgh South West, where former Chancellor Alistair Darling is standing down.

Party leader Paul Birch, who co-founded social networking site Bebo before it was sold to AOL for £570 million, said Britain’s drug laws were “pretty messed up right now”.

He said: “There has been a lot of progress in other countries – there 700 cannabis social clubs in Spain, cannabis has been legalised in four American states and the number is growing every year.

“But here we have not moved much at all in the past ten to 20 years.”

He said politicians normally tried to...

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