Peter Reynolds Watch The Leader of CLEAR | Cannabis Law Reform
Author: Alun Buffry
Anyone with any sense must surely ask themselves why all those people about whom “Graham Smith” talks about in this article are cannabis campaigners, past and present are against Reynolds – it is simply because the way Reynolds behaved, how he insulted and abused them, call them liars and trolls.
Smith carries on with the abuse instead of taking the trouble to ask the people he does not name why they feel so negative towards Reynolds and CLEAR.
Why are they so numerous, so many campaigners who worked so hard to change the law – look some of them up on-line and see just a few of those that Reynolds drove away: Lezley Gibson, Don Barnard, Winston Matthews, Clara O’Donnell, Ingo Wagenknecht, Stuart Wyatt, Jayelle Farmer, Sanj Chowdhary, Chris Bovey, Chris Philbin, Kevin John Braid, Des Humphrey, Clark French, John Wakelin, Paul Fowler, almost the whole of UK420, Mark Gibson, Hugh Robertson, Sarah Chalk, John McGiven, Greg de Hoedt, Nol van Shaik.
This is what “Graham Smith” writes about those people, seemingly not in the effort to patch things up, but to slam the door and ensure that their support will remain absent: “These people are very fond of referring to themselves as “activists” or “campaigners” but sadly they are neither of these things. They are vindictive and useless counterproductive haters of the vilest kind without scruples or morals or even the sense to know when to quit. They can find it in themselves gratuitously to attack Peter Reynolds but can’t find the time to contradict the Daily Mail.
“Their attempts to sabotage the work of CLEAR and its members is a disgrace. A nasty, selfish reflection on their own inability or willingness to put their hands to the wheel with the rest of us and personal differences to one side to achieve something.”
He forgets that CLEAR itself is the result of Reynolds’ and Well’s efforts to not just sabotage but destroy the work of those activists and the Legalise Cannabis Alliance, to which Reynolds was elected to lead to re-register as a party – instead he destroyed it and replaced it by something entirely new with a policy of taxing users and licensing growers at home.
Reynolds has also apparently called the police on several prominent campaigners, falsely accusing them of various crimes, infringement of copyright and attempted hacking of his web site.
All that from a man that has openly boasted about his previous criminal conviction for “the crime of dishonesty”, the man that managed to spend over £14,000 of funds and then appealed for more as they did not have enough left to fight an election.
I, like so many, do support putting up candidates to support cannabis law reform, the principle not the party, but I, like many that so do, will not be supporting Reynolds in any election, he does not represent me or my interests, he does not stand for changes I want to see, and I, like many, will, if and when asked, tell the truth of my opinion, and knowledge, of both man and party.
He’ll get votes for sure from the right-wingers he seems out to impress, but few, I suspect, from gays, legal immigrants, Jews, Islamists or the freedom-loving tokers of Corby.
