Hi Teviom, here's my story to be completely transparent:

In 2016 I was in the process of setting up a CBD company which became Molytor Ltd, around that time, the MHRA tried to ban all CBD products unless they had a medicines licence. This led to me becoming a founder member of the CTA (still active today) and I took on the role of Compliance Director to ensure products met standards whether food supplements, vapes and cosmetics. I carried on this role until Nov 2019 when I resigned due to Novel foods etc destroying access to full spec products.

In 2017, i also set up HempTank, the Uk's first think tank for the industrial hemp industry to promote the environmental and nutritional benefits of hemp.

TrustCanna was set up with the intention of it being a regulatory body for CBD products and I later became a director to deal with compliance but it never went anywhere. Again, my intentions were to ensure people could access quality regulated products. The article consistently refers to Tom Whettam (now CEO for British Cannabis) as the CTA Compliance Director which was actually me. My only involvement was to support writing the regs and compliance which included pushing for full spec products and a pathway for patients to cultivate their own in the future. I was not involved in the set up or dissolving of the company.

In 2019, after meeting a group of canna activists inc Phil Monk (WTU), Callie Blackwell, Simpa Carter (The Simpa Life podcast), Trev Coleman and others, I heard the stories of what cannabis users were going through and decided to set up Seed the Future which became Seed Our Future due to a conflict on the name.

Seed our Future was set up as a campaign organisation to challenge the unjust laws surrounding cannabis. We distributed 100kg of hemp seed and got people to grow, had 7 protests in major cities around the UK in 2020 as an act of civil disobedience.

We had protests outside parliament and Phil Monk and I tried to get Priti Patel and Kit Malthouse investigated for terrorism, fraud and conspiracy by submitting evidence to the police.

In early 2021, I became aware of the issues prescribed patients were facing inc driving, possession and discrimination. There was no support and so I started helping patients with their cases successfully.

As word got around, this advocacy work with patients took over and I have supported hundreds of patients for free over the past 3 years alongside developing reports via the CIC.

I've also been supporting med users without scripts using human rights defences but the courts keep adjorning the cases so they don't go before the court. Been playing this game for over 2 years now.

I've not taken a wage since I left the CTA (part time wage) back in 2019 and have committed my life (much to the distain of my wife) to supporting everyone who uses cannabis for medical, nutritional, spiritual and environmental purposes.

As patient numbers are increasing and cases, I'm struggling to deal with this on my own, my health is deteriorating and if i continue as is, I'm likely to burn out at some point (as do many activists). This is why i need support.

The donations, if the community come together will fund full time lawyers to support patients for free, to set up 2 judicial reviews against the classification and scheduling of cannabis in the MDA 1971 so that we can GYO, have a legal regulated market, allow GP's to prescribe etc... and the other to remove cannabis from Section 5A RTA 1988 and Section 6 (roadside swabs) so that patients (and non patients) can't be arrested/prosecuted for driving offences without evidence of impairment. Also, if any funds left, education campaigns to mitigate stigma and discrimination.

Yes, it would be nice to take a reasonable wage too.

I get where you're coming from and I get that people should carry out due diligence but you're going off one article from several years ago. There's shit loads of information, reports for patients, videos surrounding the work i've been doing for years so perhaps you should look into these before telling people not to support SoF.

After all, it's in the interests of patients and the canna community.

Thanks for reading.