SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's HEMP Party formally launched its election campaign on Monday with a call for cannabis to be legalised for personal and medical use, just as it is now for industrial purposes.
Members of HEMP - Help End Marijuana Prohibition - inflated a 10-metre (33-foot) plastic replica of a joint outside the state police commissioner's office in Sydney and said Australia's jails were overflowing with people criminalised for no good reason.
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