Borgerhout, October 26, 2006

Dear members and supporters of Draw Up Your Plant,

The self organization of cannabisconsumers 'Draw Up Your Plant” is ready to end cannabisprohibition in Belgium as we know it. We have all elements at hand that are needed to go to the last fase in changing policy from prohibition to a regulated system.

Ending cannabis prohibition in Belgium, ingrediënts:

Draw Up Your Plant / action plant, memberships fee's and defense fund, location for plantation, political support

Draw Up Your Plant / action plant

I don't need to tell you this, you where in the first row when we started campaigning for draw up your plant. You can read, listen or whatch it again on Cannaclopedia or on my CannabisPage.

Membership fee's and Defense Fund

Memberships fee's will be used to put up the plantation and if needed for financing our lawyers in court. We can start the plantation ones we have 1500 euro. Some candidate-members still have to pay their fee. Also the people who want to support us, but who don't want to become a member of the association can transfer money to our Defense Fund. You find all the infomration needed on our CannabisPage (email to Joep Oomen for details about international donations)

Location Plantation

To have the plantation concept operating in practice, we of course need a location for it. We couldn't find anyone who would take the risc of housing this plantation, so we where already developing plan B when al of a sudden a new member registered and at the same time offered us a location.

Political support

Federal level (in charge of the justice departement and drugs policy)

On thursday 26 October a federal member of parliament Stijn Bex writes an artikel in De Morgen (one of the quality newspapers in Belgium). He explaines that Draw Up Your Plant fits right in the current federal drugs policy and announces that he becomes a member of Draw Up Your Plant (aldhough this MP is a non-user)

What does this mean for draw up your plant?

We've got the concept, members, defense fund, location and we have a federal MP who belongs to the federal majority who states that Draw Up Your Plant fits into the federal drug policy framework. He emphasizes this proposition by announcing that he becomes a member. If no remarks are made to this by other majority MP's, then we're off changing the climate for cannabis definitely. On the other hand if we're sued anyway, then we have our defense fund and a federal majority MP who tells the public that what we do was meant to be if you follow federal drugs policy guide lines. One way or another, we're kinda protected to go all the way now.

End of November we open the plantation. Until then we'll be busy organizing it, prepare a media event for it and so on.

Wish us good luck!!!

Trekt Uw Plant vzw (Draw Up Your Plant)

Stijn Goossens Joep Oomen Philippe De Craene

President Treasurer Secretary