13/04/2017 Points West

the cannabis users who want the right to grow their own,

Anti-drugs campaigners aren't convinced.

Why Bristol wants to be the first city in the UK

And the Easter period is looking largely dry but tomorrow will bring

a bit afraid. The details later. Cannabis users in Bristol

are demanding the right saying what's sold on the streets

is too strong and dangerous. Bristol Cannabis Club will go

on the march this weekend - calling for a greater tolerance

of their illegal habit. Tonight the government told us

drugs can have a devastating impact and that communities

must be protected. who could be jailed for five years

for his Class B cannabis habit. Nonetheless -

he now wants his cannabis club Saying drug dealers

have flooded Bristol's streets with overly powerful cannabis -

known as "skunk". Things are added to it,

like spice, glass, silica, other compounds

to give it a higher effect and these

are very detrimental to health They also want a cannabis

cafe in Bristol, in the same way

users of alcohol have pubs. "Good for them",

says this former govt advisor who's long argued

that banning cannabis leads pointing out - 100 million Americans

now have access to legal cannabis. Skunk and spice are problems

caused by prohibition. People who don't have

prohibition don't have problems

with these drugs. The dealers will always use

the strongest drugs cannabis is the nation's

favorite illegal drug, But trendy anti-prohibtion arguments

come with a health warning - that cannabis is a gateway drug

to Class A substances and causes a risk of psychosis

in vulnerable people. It's going to cause harm

to your mental health especially if there is underlying

mental health issues. If you start using a substance that

changes your mental health, Anyone found with

a small amount of cannabis is usually only given

a police caution first. Last year in Bristol

the police carried out 2,800 So - there is no tolerance

of those who grow the drug. It looks as if the Cannabis Club

has a long way to march Well, earlier I spoke

to David Raynes from the National Drug

Prevention Alliance. I asked him what he made

of the Bristol Cannabis Club's idea? This initiative in Bristol is just

a flash in the pan again, we get Amsterdam has had shops selling

cannabis for years but In the Netherlands,

they are very concerned They have been concerned about that

and that is causing a lot of harm. This is what this club are saying,

that they are being forced to go to dealers who, in turn,

give them stronger cannabis

then in turn you can call it a gateway drug.

They want to stop that. There is a lot of strong

cannabis in the marketplace but that's actually the product

of consumer demand. Because they are

growing their own here. Well, they would probably

grow strong cannabis. Strong cannabis is what

consumers seem to want. And if you look at the websites

of people who are using cannabis, that's what they've

demanded and that's what originally the strong cannabis that came

into the Netherlands, then came onto the UK,

there's a long history to this. Strong cannabis started

in the US, actually. So, do you think we'll ever see

a day when cannabis is I mean, you've got about

300 and something members of We had a constituency

parliamentary candidate in Bristol in 2010 who stood,

got 340-odd votes out of 55,000 There is only 14 MPs turned up

to a debate about it. A co-pilot from

Wiltshire who believed he'd been poisoned

by contaminated cockpit air died from an unintentional overdose

of sedatives, a coroner has ruled. Richard Westgate, died in 2012

after moving to Holland to seek help from a specialist clinic

for his symptoms which he thought Richard Westgate's family

have waited for years They've always claimed that his poor

health before his death was a result of breathing in low-level

contaminated cabin fumes Richard Westgate,

who was 43, died in 2012. He'd been suffering

a series of health issues that affected his nervous system,

including severe pain in his head. The coroner said that the issue

of cabin fumes was beyond The narrative conclusion

said that Mr Westgate who worked for BA was suffering

from depression and anxiety. He concluded Mr Westgate had taken

some sleeping pills accidentally and had not intended

to kill himself. But, afterwards, Richard Westgate's

family said they still believed We know there are more sick

passengers and crew and we hope today will encourage the millions

who fly to ask questions to ensure something is done to make sure

others don't suffer like our son. The vast majority of airlines use

a system that feeds in cabin air The airline industry maintains

it is a safe system. Campaigners say the air also sucks

in organophosphates from the engine British Airways has already said

that they wouldn't fly jets if they thought cabin

air was dangerous. The campaigners and families,

like those of Richard Westgate, don't agree and these

are differences that will continue. Campaigners have been meeting

Bristol's Mayor tonight to put forward their case to make the city

the first in the UK to ban They want the Mayor to follow

the lead from cities like Grenoble Here's our Home Affairs

Correspondent Charlotte Callen. Adverts are everywhere,

on our roads and streets. To some, it's a financially

appealing part of our global world while others see it

as an invasion of our public spaces. It's costly for the

advertising companies. Going by the title "brandalism"

and under the disguise of being official employees,

they say they'll risk prosecution to take on the advertisers

in brush-to-wall combat. Filmed here by the Bristol Cable

on Bristol streets What we wanted to do,

by replacing all this corporate advertising with artwork is to say,

what different type Scroll back through the years,

these artworks are by Banksy, the vandal, the rebel

on Bristol streets. What he does is also illegal

but now his works sell for millions. He also wants advertising banned,

replaced by public art spaces. Bristol has a real opportunity to be

the UK leader in creating a different type of visual realm

for the city. Here in Bristol's Bearpit, one

of the city's most public spaces. They know which side

of the debate they fall on. This is a communal space

where nobody is criminalised They turned down ?40,000 worth

of advertising to keep their plinth What Bristol must do

is create an example Bristol is a city that often dares

to be different, to think radically. You just have to look

at its culture of street art, But whether the city could really

go advertising free, well, that will be down

to its Mayor to decide. A ban is already a reality

in Sao Paulo in Brazil But for now, Bristol

being ad-free remains a dream A woman from Somerset is on track

to swim seven ocean channels around Beth French overcame ME as a child

and she's now on track She's already completed three

of the swims - in California, Hawaii and most recently

the Cook Strait in New Zealand. She has four to go, finishing

with the English Channel. incredible achievement. That's it

from as tonight. More news on the BBC website and local radio stations

where you are. With you throughout the Easter weekend but for now, good

night and happy Easter. I'll leave with Ian with the forecast.

Now, Good Friday is going to see a fair amount of dry weather,

at least initially, but will then start to become prone

to some outbreaks of mostly patchy or showery rain.

A lot of that will be fairly light in nature,

late afternoon, into the evening, the odd moderate burst as well.

Through the rest of the night, it's looking, effectively, a dry picture.

Temperatures generally in a range of about 4-8 Celsius.

As we get through into tomorrow morning, there might be the odd spot

of rain somewhere but, generally, looking drive

Quite a lot of cloud around, rather breezy day, as we head

through the afternoon into the evening with the approach

of this cold front that'll start to up the chances of seeing that

You can see the very fragmentary look to it.

Yes, they'll be the odd moderate burst, but much of it very light

as we continue through the course of the evening itself.

Temperatures tomorrow continuing a clean, really, of decent days,

getting up to 13-15 C, pleasant enough, certainly

As we get through into Saturday, any early spots of rain disappearing,

the day then looking dry, settled, probably brightening

Chilly start to Sunday that, again, a decent day.

spot of light rain from that cloud. We will keep you updated. Now with

the National Outlook, Tomasz Schafernaker.

Good evening. It's not exactly cracking whether this Easter. I

think the main message is there's going to be a lot of dry weather,

just a little bit of rain from time to time. Not so bad overall across

most of the UK, wherever you are hopping to and from. From today we

have a fair bit of cloud around. We had some cloud around earlier on

today. It's going to stick around through the course of the night. A

few spits and spots of rain here and there towards the south, clearer

skies, may be turning quite chilly here. Overall it's a quiet night.

Good Friday itself starts off pretty good with some brightness around.

Through the second half of the day what we will see is this where the

front sliding in, bringing some thicker cloud and bits and pieces of

rain. Let's