The Worthing coffeeshop court case

[Guest]

From the LCA exec

The Worthing coffeeshop court case has finished and sentance has been passed.

Chris Baldwin: 6 month sentence as a result of a previous suspended sentence of 15 months and 3 x 6 month sentences concurrent to that. The Judge has said he must not serve more than half of this (3 months) and that he had no alternative but to put him into custody.

Winston Mathews: 4 x 4 months conditional discharge, including possession of 1/4 kilo of grass and 1/4 kilo of hash and 2 cases of selling £10 deals to undercover police in the coffee shop.

Mark Benson: 6 months 12 hours curfew, for being involved with the running of the coffee shop.

None of them got any sentence or punishment for possession or personal
amounts or for the cultivation of plants for medical and recreational use.

The Judge said "They should all be given credit for their guilty pleas" he
accepted there was NO monetary motivation and accepted that they were all medical users and that they will probably continue to be, he said "Chris
Baldwin was a sincere and honest person".

[Guest]

Chris Baldwin
HMP Highdown,
Downview Road,
Sutton,
Surrey,
SM 25 PJ.

[young wallace]

Thank you Guest.

Chris deserves support from the very people he is helping.

[CoolZero]

But who was guest i wonder

[Virgil]

From http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18218.shtml#3

A New Level of Unbelievable

Cannabis is a relatively new drug

Totally, uneffingbelievable. They have serious problems in the UK because of the soapbar that dominates the market. I think that is fast changing as people know the laws are unfair and violate their rights as human beings.

Now if you want a conspiracy theory here is one. The soapbar will not half burn and is so foul that it takes tobacco to make it useable. The tobacco companies fixed it so that soapbar was the only supply to the UK so that it would get people hooked on tobacco.

The idea of vaporizers for tobacco use will grow as the debate goes on. Notice how vaporizers are a taboo on reporting on what few cannabis stories there are. They want to keep it secret because a lot of people would change delivery systems just because of cost savings of using bulk tobacco. This would have an immediate impact on cigarette sales and could lead people to an escape of the tobacco habit.

There were some protest last summer in London for Biz Ivol who lives in Ireland. Now if you think the people in the UK are not going to protest from now until regulation for themselves, I would think it a mistaken belief.

I think Chris Baldwin ran the Worthing's coffeeshop and went to jail for a maximum of 3 months. Now there will be some protest on Wednesday or Thursday or both. One guy wanted to protest on the steps of Parliament this weekend

http://www.hempcity.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=339 Chris Baldwins mother Dorothy Baldwin, aged 81 said "My son has helped hundreds of people who are sick, we need to be strong for Chris, so I would ask anyone who knows him to come and show their support of my son" If the protest falls on deaf ears, the protesters plan to be back on Wednesday 28th January and again spend a night homeless before spending Thursday 29th January protesting at the Home Office.

I say that because motherhood has its bonds. The young people might have the energy to protest on and on, but I can see the day when all the moms turn out. It is on until it is over.

BS's for today-Vaporize and Vaporize Prohibition

[OLD TIMER HOBBIT]

The Purple Haze cofffeee shop is opening tommorrow in Edinburgh at 17.00 hrs.There will be a big piggy presence probably.

[winstone]

Chris Baldwin: 6 month sentence as a result of a previous suspended sentence of 15 months and 3 x 6 month sentences concurrent to that. The Judge has said he must not serve more than half of this (3 months) and that he had no alternative but to put him into custody.

Winston Mathews: 4 x 4 months conditional discharge, including possession of 1/4 kilo of grass and 1/4 kilo of hash and 2 cases of selling £10 deals to undercover police in the coffee shop.

Mark Benson: 6 months 12 hours curfew, for being involved with the running of the coffee shop.

Hey I am sure I know these guys

winstone

[miccheck]

winston, is that you referranced in the article?

[winstone]

miccheck I thought you knew that was me, as we've met on that uk site....take care winstoned

[Guest]

I never knew how much you were involved tho.

[miccheck]

oops that was me....

[winstone]

still havent seen a coffeeshop like chris baldwins in the uk....we need more......................winnie

[winstone]

Another cafe in worthing has be busted , yet this has nothing to do with chris's ones...

winstone

[space doubt]

I Didn't even know there was a cafe in Worthing, would've jumped on the train if I had and paid a visit!!

[winstone]

It takes me a time to reply sometimes, however I needed time to think about this space doubt, as your living in Sussex, means you should have heard about the cafes, yet the media, stop possitive coverage of ventures like coffeeshops.

Glad the internet is here now so we can spread the word how good they are....


winnie