CLEAR invites comment, suggestions and proposals towards a revised version of its CLEAR Plan for the Regulation of Cannabis in Britain

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I asked on the BLF  Facebook page for a contact e-mail and was given a personal address to send comments to. I’m awaiting a reply ——————————————– 11th June 2012 <name address etc> Sir I have been given your e-mail address as the one to contact regarding the BLF’s recent report into cannabis: “The impact of [...]

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What’s this has to do with Cannabis law reform is it provides a wonderful metaphor for prohibition and, specifically, where we are now with events.

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A follow-up to the previous blog regarding the reply from Anne Milton at the Dep of Health to my request that the government run a campaign similar to TokePure, designed to advise cannabis consumers not to smoke tobacco. You can see the amazingly stupid reply I had from the minister here – there is no other way to [...]

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I’m not an anarchist, but I’ll be honest I’m one of these people who have very little respect left for politicians. It wasn’t always so, for most of my life from late teens to late 40′s I was always a member of a mainstream political party, I was one of those people who would trudge [...]

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As the Home Affairs Select Committee enquiry into the drug laws gets underway we look at the third and final paper from the Lancet Trilogy which looks at the only aspect that really matters; how well has it all worked? How well do international drug conventions protect public health? There are many issues around raised by [...]

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This paper is hardly a ringing endorsement of the present policy,

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Three interesting articles in the Lancet (the doctors mag) this week. Interesting because they take a hard look at the present drug laws just as the Home Affairs Committee is about to start its investigation into UK drug laws. You can see the three papers here, you do need to register but it’s free Extent [...]

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Continuing the exchange between myself and Anne Milton at the department of health regarding asking the Government to run a campaign similar to Toke pure, designed to encourage cannabis users not to smoke tobacco along with their cannabis. You can read the previous exchanges here. It’s important to remember when reading this reply that I [...]

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Writing to the government about cannabis policy is a very depressing pass-time really, if you get a reply at all it’s usually a variation of the standard letter they send out to everyone. Actually, most of the time unless you write to your own MP letters to ministers are often simply ignored, you are only [...]

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