Government
UK
drugs law descends even further into farce
with the government's
rejection of the Ecstasy review. What future for the Misuse of Drugs Act. Do we
even care?
The
Government on drugs: alcohol Vs cannabis yet again. Draft Guidance on the
Consumption of Alcohol by Children and Young People - if it's good advice for
alcohol, why not for cannabis?
Cannabis
reclassification - impact assessment.
The
government has produced what must be the worst impact assessment ever produced
in order to try to justify the move back to B. Even given the gloss, they accept
it will harm race relations and divert funding from serious drug work, cost £50Million
and much more.
Cannabis
classification, a pointless issue that just isn’t going to go away. -
Proffesor Nutt of the ACMD has never forgiven Gordon Brown for ignoring his advice
to keep cannabis as a class C drug and he's been all over thenews today
The
ACMD Cannabis Potency Study
Based on bad data this is a flawed study,
but it's about the best we can expect under prohibition.
The
UK Drug Policy Commission report “Tackling Drug Markets and Distribution
Networks in the UK”
The latest official report into the total failure
of prohibition, this one makes depressing reading for anyone who still thinks
there is a future for the war on drugs
UKDPC
report online here - PDF document
The
case of Professor Nutt and the need for political lies - To paraphrase Douglas
Adams of “The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy” fame: The skills needed
to get elected mean that anyone who has the ability to do so is precisely the
sort of person who should never be allowed to. That would seem to describe politicians
only too well as recent events have demonstrated.
ACMD
Sacking
of Prof.David Nutt
The Home Secretary Alan Johnson sacked the head of the ACMD, the committee which
advises the government on drug policy, Prof. David Nutt towards the end of 2009.
Nothing like this has ever happened before and is likely to have serious implications
for the development of UK drugs policy.
Newsblog
comment on Prof Nutts sacking (Sunday
November 1st)
An
Audience with David Nutt - recording of the recent meeting at King College London
- UKCIA mediasite
Evan
Harris MP blog - critique of why the Home Secretary was wrong, it's devastating
stuff.
The
politics of arrogance, faith and denial. Did Home Secretary Alan Johnson realise
the can of worms he was opening when he sacked Professor Nutt?
The
interesting case of Professor Nutt - Famously sacked by an ex-postman for
taking an evidence based approach to drugs and telling people about it, his family
slandered by the Sun and who's developing a new wonder drug for people to have
fun with.
The
Drug Equality Alliance
Details
of the Freedom of information ruling
about the government's proposals to reform the Misuse of Drugs Act
The
government wants you opinons – and the Home Office finally coughs up its
secrets. Two new government websites to ask you're opinions and the revealing
of the redacted bits form the recent DEA Freedom of Information request.
Government
forced to publish consultation paper on the future of drugs classification 2006.
- We all know and understand that the drug laws are supposedly based on the harm
drugs can cause, hence the ABC classification system. What is also becoming common
knowledge is that the whole thing is in a mess. It now seems that the government
has been aware of this for some time and tried to get out of the mess by adopting
some other measure to justify prohibition
Anti
law reform campaigns
Prohibition
- the When in a hole dig faster school of problem solving. How the prohibition
of cannabis has changed over the years
The
new Talking About Cannabis "Cannabis Helpline". Talking About
Cannabis is a well known prohibition supporting site which is now about to open
a "24/7 helpline"
Libdem
MP Tom Brake The stated policy of the Libdems is to stop the prosecution of
cannabis growers and ultimatly to leglaise cannabis. Strange then that Libbdem
MP Tom Brake - MP for Carshalton in Surrey - tried to outlaw seeds with a 10 minute
rule bill in Parliament. If you were thniknig of supporting the Libdems because
of their drugs policy (which is by far the most intellegent of the main parties),
maybe you need to think again - and tell them
The
campaign archive
Early
law reform arguments
Arguments for law reform from the late 1990's - the
more things change, the more they remain the same
Past
events: What you did
Smokey Bears picnics,
Cannabis Carnivals
Coffee
Shops
Well,
it was a good try - The story of the British Coffeeshop campaign. This section
has been moved from Activism.
A
political party which ran from 1999 - 2006. Here is an archive of speeches made
at the annual conferences held at the UEA in Norwich. MP3
format - download or listen live
Cannabis
Conferences
Independent on Sunday (1997)
Cannabis and mental health
(2004 and 2007)
HIT Liverpool (2005)
