The market for SCRA’s only exists because people want cannabis. The way to kill the trade in these synthetic drugs is to allow access the what people want – the real thing; cannabis.

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And so at last after a year or so of meetings, the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) drugs inquiry was finally published last Monday. In the event it was probably worth a murmur of approval, if not half a cheer. It’s fair to say that some of us weren’t that hopeful it would produce anything [...]

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An interesting narrative seems to be developing anew; drugs – and especially cannabis – are responsible for increasing levels of violence in society. Last Monday (10th September) I attended the Home Affairs Select committee (HASC) Drugs inquiry meeting at Portcullis House in Westminster, London. The meeting was advertised as an “International Conference on Drug Policy” [...]

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Ken Clarke, the Justice Secretary, made news the other day by telling the truth, or at least some of the truth.

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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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All the submissions to the Home Affairs Committee Drugs enquiry can be seen online here. A very special thanks to anyone who responded to the appeals to submit comments. My submission starts at page 34 – number 14 Written evidence submitted by Derek Williams [DP014] Background: I am the owner/publisher of www.ukcia.org—a cannabis law reform [...]

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the news today of a newspaper “sting” against Conservative Party co-treasurer Peter Cruddas has perhaps opened the door ever so slightly into the murky and unsettling world of British political corruption.

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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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