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.

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!

The 4/20 celebrations were bigger than ever in the UK this year. Tens of thousands of cannabis consumers from across the country attended the flash gathering in Hyde Park, London that has been taking place each year since The Summer of Love 1967.

And the event in London was only one of many, with other events happening across the UK and beyond in Leeds, Manchester, Dublin and worldwide. We travelled to London to Hyde Park for the biggest of the gatherings, and you can read about our time at the event below.

• 100s attended DCC’s first annual bonfire night • Cannabis enthusiasts, vendors and the general public enjoyed the club’s festivities • Are events like these the best way for cannabis clubs to become part of the wider community? Darwen Cannabis Club’s first annual Bonfire night attracted hundreds of cannabis enthusiasts, campaigners, vendors and members of the general public…

We attended Durham City Cannabis club’s final Protestival event of the year at Hemp Gardens in Durham at the weekend. This was Durham City Cannabis Club's fifth such solo event this year. These events have been steadily increasing in popularity and attendance, and every event boasts a wide variety of stalls, speakers and musicians from…

We attended the Patients at Parliament protest this week, which was organised to support Newport, south MP Paul Flynn who recently invited medical cannabis consumers to come to the houses of Parliament and openly consume cannabis to protest the archaic classification of what he called “the oldest medicine in the world”. The event, organised by…

This weekend saw the third annual Product Earth 2017, the UK’s only Hemp and alternative lifestyle exhibition take place in Birmingham.

Product Earth is a two-day expo that brings together an ecliptic mix of exhibitors, knowledgeable speakers, diverse organisations and businesses and members of the wider cannabis community to celebrate and promote all the benefits and applications that cannabis and its derivable technologies can achieve. This years event had to be moved from its previous location in Peterborough down to London and then subsequently found home in Britain’s second largest city, Birmingham.

On Sunday 27th August Jerk and Fire took place at East Brighton Park. This event was a HIGHLight over the bank holiday weekend, drawing attendees from as far north as the Midlands to enjoy a day of cannabis celebration! What a day for the weather – We saw an almost cloudless sky throughout the…