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We have all unwittingly been sowing the seeds of distrust, dismay, and despair within our own community by supporting the continued subdivision of our noble…
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We recently attended Milton Keynes Cannabis Social Club’s first open drop-in education and membership sign-up evening. MKCSC is one of over a hundred Cannabis clubs currently active in the UK.
“We are a group of like-minded individuals standing up against prohibition, and working towards a more progressive and evidence-based cannabis policy in the UK by bringing local communities together. Our members are a mixture of active and inactive cannabis advocates, people wanting education about Cannabis, and those who want more information and safe access to a more regulated market” - MKCSC
The event took place on Thursday 7th June and started at 7 pm. The later starting time ensured a good turnout. The event offered the public of Milton Keynes their first look at the club and access to plenty of educational literature and the opportunity to converse with activists from across the United Kingdom.11
Image: Banner from a German GMM protest in 2015
This weekend I attended the UK’s only “Global Marijuana March” in Cardiff, Wales. The Global Marijuana March, sometimes known as Global Cannabis Day or the Global Cannabis March is the single largest simultaneous cannabis protest in history - it's even a bigger event than 420 globally.
It takes place in nearly 900 cities in over 70 countries around the world and is participated in by millions of conscientious cannabis consumers.
The March certainly has grown from its humble origins in the semi-annual protests and various marches that took place across the US in the 1960’s and 1970’s which called for an end to the war on Cannabis. A war that has claimed thousands of lives. Cannabis prohibition kills someone every day, Cannabis has never killed anyone on any day!07
This week on ISMOKE we will be finishing up our seven-part series exploring Europe's ever-changing attitudes towards cannabis and looking at how individual nations are preparing future policies for what will eventually and inevitably become a global post-prohibition paradigm.
In this final piece, we'll be looking at the remaining countries on the continent that we have yet to touch upon in the previous six articles – all of which you can read below.13
This week in the penultimate article continuing on with our seven-part series exploring the ever-evolving European cannabis scene. In this piece, we’ll be focusing on the former Soviet Union block of Europe.
In this feature, we are discussing the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its cannabis policies and history. We will then be taking a look at the individual nations created by the fall of the Soviet republic in 1991.06
This is the fifth of our seven-part series looking at changing tides in the European cannabis scene.
This week we'll be looking at the Balkan states and countries of the former Yugoslavia.
Named for the Balkan mountain range that stretches from the Serbian/Bulgaria border to the black sea region, this includes. Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Albania, Romania, Serbia, Greece, and Slovenia. We’ll be looking in more depth at some states than others, focusing on Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania as individual countries and The former states of Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro) as a collective. We have covered Greece already here in a previous article.22
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