drumnbass.be forum » Drumnbass scene » Offtopic banter » first step toward cannabis regulation is taken first step toward cannabis regulation is taken Author Post breakline-crew Tourist Registration Date: 05-11-2004 Posts: 13 Draw Up Your Plant organized a very successful press moment on Thursday Juli 27. “The mother plant, seeds and clones” were the subject of our action this time. We showed the planting of the seed to grow a mother plant that'll provide clones for the Draw Up Your Plant cannabis plantation. ATV-News (Dutch): http://www.atv.be/v3/newsdetail.aspx?mid=&id=2612 Foto report by Jos van Cannaclopedia: http://www.cannaclopedia.be/TUPtxtNL.htm Antwerpen Apart (Dutch): http://antwerpenapart.be/archives/1630 Het Nieuwsblad (Dutch): http://hardcoreharmreducer.be/picture%20...tNieuwsblad.jpg Oradio website (Dutch) : http://www.oradio.be/detail.php?record=3277 I've put it all on my cannapage: http://www.hardcoreharmreducer.be/CannabisPage.html Draw Up Your Plant isn't the only organization who finds that Belgian cannabis law creates legal insecurity for Belgian Civil society. VAD/De Druglijn (a tele-service for people with questions about drugs) released a press article on Juli 13 last month. They describe the problems with Belgian cannabis law: (Tom Evenepoel (VAD / De Druglijn) about the content of questions asked to De Druglijn) “Legislation is taken into consideration in 15% of the questions. This is even a higher percentage as with the federal drug note in 2001. Moreover, the questions continually get more specific. It no longer concerns the general question if cannabis now can be smoked or not, but about what is allowed in certain specific situation or not, and what the eventual sanction can be. We do what we can, but often it is a great challenge and sometimes even impossible to give answers to the questions about legislation..” Full article (Dutch): http://www.vad.be/docs/persbericht_druglijncijfers_05.pdf According to the ministerial directive of January 2005 one can possess 3 grammes of canabis and and one harvested cannabis plant. Draw Up Your Plant offers cannabis consumers a protocol enabling them to attain cannabis without trade. Each member of the organization can grow it's plant in a common plantation according to strict, yet simple rules. One man/woman one plant. Each plant in the plantation will contain a label with it's owners name on it. There are 2 ways in witch the situation for Draw Up Your Plant can evolve now: or we get a political solution, or we get a judicial solution. We don't expect our political policy makers will come up with a legislative initiative because that would be an acknowledgement of debt for bad governance earlier in this period of government. Draw Up Your Plant is in favor of a political solution, but we expect to be challenged by criminal law and fight our fight in court. We need 1500 euro if we go to court. We try to gather this money by asking a 50 euro memberships fee to people who want to become a member of our association. So we need 30 members to start with. We're doing the Draw Up Your Plant campaign since januari of this year. We did a monthly press release and so now and then an event (like the one last week). We where in newspapers, magazines, on radio and television and websites. We now have several hundreds of supporters from all over the country. But we only have 24 members until now. Manny of our supporters are concerned mainly about the fact if they're gonna have a harvest-ready plant for the 50 euro they've paid. People often only think short term (My weed!!!) and one cannot understand that you have to arrange this legal business first before you can do your grow in relaxed surroundings. We try to get our association Draw Up Your Plant regulated. If we succeed then we can get thousands of cannabis associations in all kind of forms and we then celebrate the end of cannabis prohibition. This is really possible just because of this unclear, unworkable cannabis law. In the first place there is the fact that at present nobody can explain how cannabis laws are to be interpreted. Secondly, Judges suffer under this problem (how should they rule?) and maybe want to send a signal to the legislators responsible for this and let us go. Stijn Goossens Philippe De Craene Joep Oomen TREKT UW PLANT (vzw i.o) STAD/ENCOD/VOLVOX Lange Lozanastraat 14 2018 Antwerpen Tel. 03 237 7436 GSM: 0479 982271 / 0486 499 453 E-mail:encod@glo.be / TrektUwPlant@yahoo.com Website: www.encod.org / www.hardcoreharmreducer.be / www.cannaclopedia.be __ www.hardcoreharmreducer.be 13 Mei 14h Vrijdagsmarkt Antwerpen: TREKT UW PLANT!!! 30-07-2006 00:59 Glim Stuck In The Late Nineties Registration Date: 16-10-2004 Posts: 1,848 Helpfulness rating:  great news, although canabis fucked up my life for a bit, i got obsessed and now i dont wanna touch the stuff, its hard sometimes coz the thought of havin aphat smoke after work is really tempting, a high that alcohol will never give me, but it affects people in different ways and i've learned my lesson.. drugs just either fuck you up or slow you down to be able to live without them is a massive thing imo... peace to all the smokerz though.. G __ My Sounds 30-07-2006 09:02 equipped tired Registration Date: 20-05-2005 Posts: 3,818 Helpfulness rating:  that's all good Glim,..agree with everything you said,..cheers bud. __ Space 30-07-2006 09:14 Surya The Robot Registration Date: 04-11-2002 Posts: 11,238 Helpfulness rating:  Yeah, if you don't keep your spliff use under control, your life can get out of hand a bit. That's the no 1 reason for me to only use it a few times a year... __ "In dnb you should make people jump not swim" - Pieter Frenssen 2004 31-07-2006 12:28 equipped tired Registration Date: 20-05-2005 Posts: 3,818 Helpfulness rating:  yea,..can't smoke conz before caotic day,..that shit will have you burnt out n bitchy in no time,...after all the day's bullshit is done,..a fatty's all good,..though i still have to put this theory to practice,...lol __ Space 31-07-2006 19:36 Yawn Sponsor Registration Date: 25-01-2005 Posts: 1,185 Helpfulness rating:  quote: Originally posted by Glim great news, although canabis fucked up my life for a bit, i got obsessed and now i dont wanna touch the stuff, its hard sometimes coz the thought of havin aphat smoke after work is really tempting, a high that alcohol will never give me, but it affects people in different ways and i've learned my lesson.. Man that's EXACTLY how i feel. 31-07-2006 21:27 cynik Cp6uja Registration Date: 15-03-2005 Posts: 5,646 Helpfulness rating:  I used to be a regular every day smoker and so were all my friends. man.. we wouldn't GO OUT if anyone didn't have some, because it just wouldn't be any fun. if a girl is non-smoker I'm not interested in her in time though, I straightened my life and smoking a joint after some time could be a full paranoid trip at times so I just quit and do it very very rarely and only in the right company __ https://soundcloud.com/tsai-vidro-voves 31-07-2006 23:34 tetsuo Guiness factory Registration Date: 26-12-2004 Posts: 678 Helpfulness rating:  Hi all.... I think you're all right, balance is the thing... But Like equipped mentioned, I still have to put it on practise..... __ Yesterday' s futur is today!! 01-08-2006 09:58 thechronic admin Registration Date: 01-11-2002 Posts: 5,293 Helpfulness rating:  Unlike what you might think if you see my name I haven't touched the stuff for years, it's not compatible with an active life __ If you find spam on the site, please hit the button and select my name. I'll personally kick it to the murky depths of hell where it belongs! 01-08-2006 12:22 drumnbass.be forum » Drumnbass scene » Offtopic banter » first step toward cannabis regulation is taken