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(UK) Banksy friend smokes cannabis in House of Commons while Nick Clegg addresses MPs
#13469006 - 11/11/10 02:10 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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A friend of Banksy managed to smuggle a cannabis joint into the House of Commons and then smoke it as Nick Clegg addressed MPs during Prime Minister’s Questions as part of a protest yesterday.
The 18-year-old street-artist, who goes by the pseudonym 'Cartrain', got his drugs through the supposedly tight security and then lit up as the Deputy Prime Minister filled in for David Cameron, who was in China trying to tie up trade deals with Britain.
Cartrain was only stopped when he stood up and shouted "decriminalise cannabis", revealing his illegal actions to police, who rushed over to drag away the teenager and a friend.
The Leytonstone-based artist, who was later released by police with a warning, has in the past been arrested for removing part of Damien Hirst’s Tate Britain installation Pharmacy as part of another protest. Nick Clegg
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was taking questions from MPs yesterday when the incident occurred Cartrain's police stop and account form
A copy of the street-artist's police stop and account form
He said: 'The security was tighter than at an airport — there were about 20 cops searching people, metal detectors, the works — but I couldn’t believe how easy it was.
'I lit up right in front of Nick Clegg. I must have taken a good four or five pulls on the spliff before the guards realised what I was doing, and then I went quietly.
'They said they would put me in a cell under Big Ben, which I said sounds amazing, like the most expensive hotel in London, but then they decided to let me go when they realised I was quite keen to be arrested.'
His police stop and account form, signed by an officer of the Met’s SO17 Palace of Westminster division, records: 'Stopped in strangers gallery after seen smoking cannabis.'
A spokesman for the House of Commons said: 'Two people were removed from the public gallery of the Commons today for inappropriate behaviour. They were handed over to the police, cautioned and given advice about drugs.'
Cartrain’s previous stunts include sneaking a fake exhibit into the British Museum.
Last year artists including Banksy rallied to support him after he was arrested for taking a packet of pencils — valued at £500,000 — from Hirst’s exhibition after the former Young British Artist’s representatives threatened to sue Cartrain for making collages including photos of Hirst’s work.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328727/Banksys-friend-smokes-cannabis-Commons-Nick-Clegg-addresses-MPs.html#ixzz150i0hQ9B
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MushyMushyMushy
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Re: (UK) Banksy friend smokes cannabis in House of Commons while Nick Clegg addresses MPs [Re: MushyMushyMushy]
#13469195 - 11/11/10 02:48 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah! I have so much respect for this guy haha
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Re: (UK) Banksy friend smokes cannabis in House of Commons while Nick Clegg addresses MPs [Re: MushyMushyMushy]
#13469571 - 11/11/10 04:05 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Notice he shouted, "Decriminalise cannabis!" and not "Legalise cannabis!"?
If that's at all relevant...
-------------------- Be joyful. This could be the only chance you get. All of the above posts are the fevered imaginings of a deluded mind, itself entirely the fictional creation of a somewhat peculiar author with a bizarre sense of humour.
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Re: (UK) Banksy friend smokes cannabis in House of Commons while Nick Clegg addresses MPs [Re: Mr E Guest]
#13469643 - 11/11/10 04:20 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Banksy and his friends = 
fuckin' artist aswell
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Re: (UK) Banksy friend smokes cannabis in House of Commons while Nick Clegg addresses MPs [Re: Beanhead]
#13472096 - 11/12/10 02:36 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: (UK) Banksy friend smokes cannabis in House of Commons while Nick Clegg addresses MPs [Re: shroomzi8]
#13472387 - 11/12/10 07:02 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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A Canadian did this a couple weeks ago in our House of Commons. He was trying to raise attention to our backwards medical cannabis laws... His wife has lung cancer and is unable to smoke cannabis because of it, and our medical exemption laws do not allow extracts to be made with cannabis so she can't even legally turn the weed into butter and eat it. She could get a lot of relief from using cannabis, but is legally not entitled to do so because of our stupid laws... So he did this to draw some media attention and get a chance to speak out about the issue, but when our media ran the story, they didn't even mention anything about his motivations, just that this guy went and smoked a joint in the government building
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Re: (UK) Banksy friend smokes cannabis in House of Commons while Nick Clegg addresses MPs [Re: shroomer17]
#13473204 - 11/12/10 11:07 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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He sounds like such a fucking wanker. This is not a good look for smokers - he is doing more harm than good. If a gay marriage advocate went to parliament and had gay sex in front of everyone do you think they would be taken seriously?
In all seriousness, we need normal, rational people promoted as cannabis smokers, not immature brats like this guy.
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