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Out of Joint - 20 Years Campaigning for Cannabis [Kindle Edition]

Alun Buffry
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20 Years Campaigning for Cannabis.

In 1991, Alun Buffry was arrested and charged with Conspiracy to Import and Conspiracy to Supply Cannabis and was given two concurrent ten-year prison sentences.

It was in Norwich prison whilst on remand in 1991 that Alun Buffry was approached by Jack Girling during a prison visit, and invited to help him and others form the Campaign to Legalise Cannabis International Association (CLCIA).

In 1992, whilst on bail, the CLCIA was formed but it would not be until after Alun Buffry was released on parole in 1995, having served four-and-a-half years, that he started to dedicate himself to the cause of legalising the possession, cultivation and trade of cannabis in the UK.

In the General Election of 1997, Howard Marks contested four seats on the single issue of cannabis.

In 1999, the campaign registered as a political party in the UK under the name Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA).

The LCA fought in over 80 elections including Parliamentary, local council and county councils, did numerous talks and interviews, gave oral evidence to the Home Affairs Committee and the Basque Government in Spain, debated at The Oxford Union and at universities, attended marches and rallies protests and picnics and produced the first and only Party Political Broadcast by a cannabis party, shown on TV in Wales in 2005.

This is Alun Buffry's no-holds-barred story, from his prospective, detailing his own activities and those of others, over the period 1991 to 2011.

It includes published letters and news stories, reports of events, conferences, the debate at the Oxford Union and the publication to become know as “The Challenge” and even includes a few poems and tales.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 569 KB
  • Print Length: 378 pages
  • Publisher: Alun Buffry (27 Feb 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B007ESZZXI
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #414,265 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By bobajob
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What a great book, having followed Alun through his campaigning years, its refreshing to finally see some history that cannot be deleted from the archives, such a shame the LCA was hijacked by that horrible man Peter wotsit. Well done Alun on an accurate guide to what went on in your time as a front line campaigner, may people follow in your footsteps and get this law changed! Great to read about so many well known faces and see them mentioned, there was a whole team of good people trying to change the law for a very long time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A literary gem 3 Mar 2012
By Mr P
Alun Buffry is an inspiration to anyone that doubts that ordinairy people can make a difference to our society. Part History lesson, part campaigners "how to" manual, part memoir, 'OUT OF JOINT' is HIS story. Long may it continue....
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1.0 out of 5 stars Buffry Dishes Out the Dirt on UK Campaigners 2 Mar 2012
By Jayelle
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In the typically careless work ethic of the Alun Buffry style, this work has not been through a spell-checker and is annoying to read with such a multitude of spelling mistakes.

However, that fact pales into insignificance, compared to his use of the platform of this book to publicly settle old scores with people whom he dislikes - people within the UK cannabis campaign who have plain refused to be manipulated and controlled by Alun Buffry.

His account of his past life in prison is quite interesting, but it is when he arrives at his stories about the LCA and uk420 that the dirt really gets thrown - and a lot of the information he gives is either untrue or twisted to make it read the way that he wants it to read.

If Alun Buffry is seeking a lot of sales of this book through a distortion of events concerning people he has known in the past then it really does say a lot about him as a person.

I cannot recommend this book in any way, shape or form.
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