Cannabis march ad on council website.Byline: By Gary Marks A PRO-cannabis protest inviting people to smoke the drug in Birmingham's main park has been advertised on the city council's website, it was revealed today. The What's On page of the council's website showed a listing for the "Healing of the Nation's Smokey Bears Picnic" to be held on Sunday in Cannon Hill Park Cannon Hill Park (grid reference SP065835) is a park located in south Birmingham, England. Its main vehicular entrance is in Edgbaston, opposite the Edgbaston Cricket Ground, but the park and the Midlands Arts Centre are across the river in Moseley. . Smokey Bear is an alias traditionally used by campaigners to organise mass demonstrations to flout flout v. flout·ed, flout·ing, flouts v.tr. To show contempt for; scorn: flout a law; behavior that flouted convention. See Usage Note at flaunt. v.intr. laws by smoking cannabis in public. The listing was removed yesterday afternoon by embarrassed council officials. Colin Preece, the Legalise Cannabis Alliance The Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA) was a political party registered in the United Kingdom in 1999 with the cannabis leaf image as its emblem. In common with Cannabis political parties in other countries, the party's aims are not exclusively about the consumption of (LCA) spokesperson for the environment, said: "I admit I submitted it to the What's on Page, but it's this character called Smokey Bear that's been spreading the event on the internet within cannabis group communities. I just put the information there." A council spokeswoman said: "We do not consider this unauthorised gathering to be an appropriate use of a public park and have not agreed for it to take place. "The listing was submitted to our web team and was added to the site before it became apparent what it was. "It's now been removed. If anyone breaks the law then it will be a police matter." |
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