GREAT BRITAIN: Andy Cornwell of the London chapter of British Cannabis is launching the alert for Cannabis contamination, the so called gritty weed, contaminated and quite unhealthy adulterated cannabis that has been hitting in some limited cases the British market. The British Health authorities warned the consumers to check the herb by touching it with wetted hands to detect the small plastic fragments that are mixed to soar the bulky flowers impregnated with brix products. This is official mainstream news in England thanks to the media efforts of British Cannabis. Million Marijuana March was first celebrated in London in a solidarity chain started worldwide as the annual Liberation March in New York City was facing in the nineties a very harsh repression by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The 2007 edition is also characterized by regional cannabis activism far beyond the great London area and is going to be hold in different British cities. Since the government has reclassified cannabis from schedule A to schedule C, considering it a rather benign substance not worth of major criminalisation, some people in England think to have already won the battle. Mr Cornwell thinks there is still a bit way to go to in Great Britain. In Britain most of the weed is home-grown even though Rastafarians do not like the skunk sort and would like to have their traditional African or Caribbean grass that due to tougher police checks is not easily available in Britain.

AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS: Aja Waalwijk is a performer and poet living in Amsterdam. On a conversation with Enrico Fletzer of Million Marijuana Radio, Aja tries to expose the paradox situation of present day Netherlands about cannabis whereas the selling is quite legal and the production and the backdoor delivery or the notorious coffee shops is still not regulated by the authorities. Although there is a proposal of over 20 mayors of all political colours to legalise production, the government is not willing and repression kicks small operators out of the market and big criminal groups supply the large demand.

OSLO, NORWAY: Torkel Bjornman of Norml - Norway organizes the local Million Marijuana March all over the country in Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and reports the decriminalisation of use in the Scandinavian nation.

ATHENS, GREECE: Michalis Iliosporoi is member of the Young Green of Grece and is at this year’s edition organising a big festival in Athens. Greece is the homeland of both cannabis and rembetika, the greek urban blues of hashish and sorrow. So the blues is still strong in Greece that along with Italy and Bulgaria trying to recover from the right wing setbacks on drug issues.

LJUBLIANA, SLOVENIA: Matej Jankovich of Prohibicia slepj, Prohibition is blinding, that’s the name of the slovenian organisation founded by Liubliana by Matej and the Slovenian Youth organisations. Slovenia is considered quite liberal on drug policies. But in the last period there was a curious stop to hemp food products that are favoured and tutored by the European Union.

GASTEIZ,EUSKADI, SPAIN: Paco In Euskadi, the country of the Bask People, some consumers have been registered as cannabis growers for personal use but Spain and the Basks are still a long way to go according to Paco of the Amigos de Maria (Friends of Mary).

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