The UK’s ‘Cannabis Martyr’ Keeps Getting Jailed for Opening Weed Cafes

Vice

Lean Left

Mixed Factuality

Media Conglomerate: The Walt Disney Company

Private Equity: TPG Capital

The UK’s ‘Cannabis Martyr’ Keeps Getting Jailed for Opening Weed Cafes

Throughout history, martyrs have sacrificed their lives for noble causes. Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi, the list goes on. For weed smokers in the UK, the martyr right now is a 54-year-old pothead called Gary Youds. Youds owns a cannabis cafe called the Chillin’ Rooms on Holt Road in Liverpool—a stone’s throw from Anfield football stadium—where members are encouraged to chill, smoke weed, and have a laugh. For operating this service, Youds has be…