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Cannabis is stronger than Heroin? Really?

Hooray!  Cannabis Is Now Stronger Than Heroin! By James Collins Cannabis stronger is heroin according to Warrington Borough Council. Have you heard?  The crack team of scientists employed by Warrington...

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Uruguay: The first domino has fallen

By Deej Sullivan The 31st July 2013 is destined to be a very famous date in the drug law reform movement. It was on this day that Uruguay, the tiny South American country formally best known here for...

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Uruguay, the United Nations and Prohibition

By James Collins Legal cannabis in Uruguay. You’ve probably read that Uruguay is currently going through the legislative process to legalize and regulate the recreational consumption of cannabis.  If...

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Are the DEA reading your emails?

By Richard Shrubb Is a DEA agent reading your emails discussing who you’re buying your weed from tonight? There are signs that he may just be, which shows how far the US spy agencies are actually going...

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Post Uruguay – Where Next?

By Max Fernandez As most cannabis legalisation advocates know by now; the small South American country of Uruguay (with a population of just over 3 million people) has sent shockwaves across the globe...

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Is the whole problem really the blacks?

By Angus It’s well past time for Britain’s Labour opposition to get its act together on cannabis. If you are black and going about your day in England and Wales then you are 6.3 times more likely to be...

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Remember prohibition? It still doesn’t work!

The latest in our series of blogs for Cannabis Hypocrisy Week By Adam A. What associations come to mind when the word ‘cannabis’ is mentioned ? Perhaps it is criminals, drug dealers, gangs, laziness,...

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Big Pharma and the ‘War on Cures’

Another contributor´s view in a series of articles exploring cannabis hypocrisy  By Gemma Phelan The problem with illegal drugs is that they are illegal. Cannabis has never resulted in fatality which...

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Doug Fine, author of ‘Too High to Fail’ to talk in London

Author of ‘Too High to Fail’ to appear in London & Galway By Derrick Bergman Doug Fine: Too High To Fail He wrote the first in-depth look at the legal cannabis industry in the USA and he’s coming...

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The Culture High – Behind the Scenes

By Jason Reed PART 1 Coming to the UK It was the documentary that’s said to have legitimately changed the collective thinking on what was a stale and entrenched subject matter. The Union The Business...

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Legitimized Cannabis: SHOW ME THE MONEY!

By James Collins The first stage of the fight on legal cannabis has been won in two American States, as you well know.  Legalization has happened in Colorado and the results are pretty impressive....

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Can you bring an ounce of weed into Britain?

UK Border Agency: do not arrest passengers for small amounts of weed By Greg de Hoedt Border Agency staff told ‘Passengers entering Britain caught in possession of cannabis should not be arrested’, it...

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Caroline Lucas MP’s drug petition reaches 100k signatures

MPs forced to look at drug laws By Greg de Hoedt A Downing Street online petition calling for an Impact Assessment on the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 has finally reached its target of 100,000 signatories....

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International Narcotics Control Board and cannabis

Sensible cannabis laws pose ‘very grave danger’ to unelected UN bureaucrats at the International Narcotics Control Board By Chris Bovey Throughout the world, more and more countries are defying the UN...

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Judge Richard Hone QC says little difference between cannabis and heroin

By Chris Bovey Judge Richard Hone QC has joined the rush to see who can get the most absurd statement into the media concerning cannabis. In recent times we have had Dr Faizal Mohammed claiming hash...

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Judge sends ‘slaves’ forced to grow cannabis to prison

By Chris Bovey A court has heard how two Vietnamese men caught growing hundreds of cannabis plants in a Portsmouth house were ‘virtually slaves’. Sen Dang, 34, and Nhi Nguy, 33 had travelled from...

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Activism is Warfare

By James Collins The great annual 4/20 celebration is over.  Congratulations to all the people who stepped out around the globe and joined the chorus of voices that said “Cannabis is okay” for our...

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Cannabis prohibition for a country in recovery – Colombia

By Zaid Moosa While Cannabis prohibition is clearly damaging to a country such as the UK, the effects can be far more debilitating in a developing country such as Colombia, which is still emerging from...

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The War on Drugs: Why Decriminalization Isn’t Enough

By James Collins (Warning: Extremely Graphic Content) There is a huge debate amongst cannabis users in these, the dying days of prohibition, about what scheme should replace the current legal...

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The long and costly arm of the British justice system.

A true story by Melvyn PROLOGUE This all started when I was arrested in Portsmouth for possession of a small quantity of a so-called class B drug, namely in Police jargon ‘Herbal cannabis’ at 15:00 on...

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