The Global Cannabis Cultivation Research Consortium has issued an apology to UKCIA and CLEAR regarding comments made on its website which you can read here. Over a year ago now in February 2012 I wrote an entry on this blog about a group of people attacking the CLEAR Cannabis Law Reform campaign and in particular [...]

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Two of the “respected” sources of drug information and one regular source of lies are worth a mention this week. First Drugscope – which describes itself: We are the leading UK charity supporting professionals working in drug and alcohol treatment, drug education and prevention and criminal justice. We are also the primary source of independent [...]

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Update 7th December For the time being links to this study are suspended pending ongoing negotiations. This blog remains online for information, but for now UKCIA cannot recommend participation in the study. We hope issues will be resolved soon. ________________________     UK Cannabis Growers Survey -Click here to take part Senior Lecturer in Criminology, [...]

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News this weeks suggests there has been a big reduction in the number of young people using cannabis in recent years according to the Home office (Drug Misuse Declared: Findings from the 2011/12 Crime Survey for England and Wales (2nd Edition)youth culture – here). So what’s going on? Why is cannabis apparently going out of [...]

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The debate about the future of the UK drugs laws, what to do about addiction and so on is a really important debate. Unfortunately it’s being undermined by celerity status in the form of Russell Brand. Russell Brand has been a problem drug user, having developed addiction problems with Opiates and Alcohol which, to his [...]

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Additcion Today has lost any pretense it had to being a serious publication, it is little more than a comic of the prohibition movement.

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Strangely the Daily Mail didn’t pick up on the latest cannabis shock horror story, but not to worry because the BBC and the so-called “Independent” took up the slack “Health risks of cannabis ‘underestimated’, experts warn” screamed BBC news (here) – oh dear, “experts” are warning about something, it must be serious. Worse, the Independent [...]

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The government has announced a new offence of drug driving, which actually isn’t a new offence at all because it’s always been illegal to drive if unfit (ie intoxicated) by drugs. What’s makes this interesting is they intend to set limits for the amount of “illegal” drugs you can have in your body which will [...]

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Of course the police aren’t stupid, what they are is an arm of the government and so they can be trusted to present their case in a way that supports government policy. So they lie

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Are we about to be sold down the river? Last year it was announced there would be a Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) investigation into drug policy which would be free to look at all the options. The committee asked for written submissions and earlier this year I, along with many other people, sent in [...]

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