Brixton Cannabis Festival: Rain Stops Play

Organisers of London's annual Legalise Cannabis Festival postponed this weekend's event at the 11th hour, after weather forecasts predicted no let-up in the heavy rainfall of the last few weeks.

"Greetings from a very wet Brixton, the 6th Annual Cannabis March and Festival is postponed until Saturday 5th June 2004," said Festival spokesman Shane Collins.

"The forecast is rain with thunder over the next few days, so after a meeting with the Parks Dept at noon today, Tuesday, we have been forced to postpone the event. This is due to a very waterlogged park, (ducks by the Hip Hop Stage, small streams and much standing water)," he quipped.

Festival organisers also postponed the event due to waterlogging in 2001 (blaming global warming for the unseasonal wet weather) though a greater threat to its longer term future could come from apathy, certainly judging by the turnout at a Cannabis Festival in Birmingham last weekend.

According to the BBC, a hundred cannabis enthusiasts were expected to congregate for a smoke at the Cannon Hill Park event, in Edgbaston, though as it turned out, just one individual managed to make it down to the lunchtime protest.

"Cannabis users are the fastest starters, are they," 'Mark' told the BBC. He also reportedly conceded that support was 'a bit thin on the ground' (bbc.vo.uk).
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