And so another year bites the dust. although it ended with some really good news on a personal level the year has been dominated by something really nasty. The year started with an exchange of e-mails between myself and the government, via my MP LibDem Simon Wright. The idea was to get the government to [...]

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Cannabis is classified under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (MoD Act)- the law that prohibits cannabis – as having no medicinal value. Of course, we know that is simply wrong and it was when one group of ill people – those suffering from Multiple sclerosis (MSers)  – began to openly defy the law because [...]

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CLEAR has launched a new campaign called of “EX-SCRA – Exposing Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists”

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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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It’s always a good thing when a new cannabis law reform launches, the more organisations out there making waves the better. The latest campaign to launch – NORML UK – has its roots in the troubles at CLEAR earlier this year, indeed many of the founder members of NORML UK were very deeply involved in all the [...]

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The first four months have been difficult for the CLEAR cannabis law reform campaign. Actually “difficult” counts as one of those massive understatements, along with “interesting”. At the centre of it all has been the leader, Peter Reynolds. Without going over too much old ground, Peter took over the near-to-death LCA (Legalise Cannabis Alliance) just [...]

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Digging around in my cardboard box of old tapes I came up with these gems The Independent On Sunday Decriminalise Cannabis March, 1998 The short lived IoS decrim cannabis campaign sparked off a series of annual “Cannabis Carnivals” organised by the Green Party, Exodus Collective and CLCIA amongst others which ran from 1999 to 2004. [...]

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The law reform movement needs to change from being something designed to appeal to stoners to something designed to appeal to mainstream British society if it is to progress.

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An interesting development has occurred in recent months which is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before and it hasn’t been pretty. For the past several months there has been a campaign waged against the leader of CLEAR, Peter Reynolds. which has taken the form of a “cyber bullying” campaign. What makes this perhaps even more [...]

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Today was a big day for the cannabis law reform organisation “CLEAR”, due to the unveiling of a report written by the Independent Drugs Monitoring Unit (IDMU) concerning the tax raising potential of a regulated cannabis trade and CLEAR’s proposals for a regulated regime for cannabis which took place in a full meeting room in [...]

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