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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Additcion Today has lost any pretense it had to being a serious publication, it is little more than a comic of the prohibition movement.
Just ONE cannabis joint ‘can bring on schizophrenia’ as well as damaging memory. Serious stuff if true, which of course it wasn’t.
Originally published on CLEAR, this is a collection of stories published by the Daily Mail about cannabis. It is a summary of 10 years of inaccurate, misleading and distorted information about cannabis in which the Daily Mail has deliberately confused comment, conjecture and fact in its systematic campaign against cannabis and cannabis users. Its efforts [...]
Now the thing is given its reputation I don’t expect the claim that the Daily Mail deliberately publishes distorted and misleading information to come as a great surprise to that many people
Almost three weeks ago now I submitted a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) concerning the work of pure fiction published by the Daily Mail which claimed a study undertaken by Bristol University found the strongest evidence to date that cannabis “brings on” schizophrenia. In fact the study showed no such thing and didn’t [...]
The biggest argument against protecting the freedom of the press in the UK can be summed up in two words: “Daily Mail”. Now, it must be said from the start that the Daily Mail is capable of fair and objective reporting regarding many things even including cannabis. Indeed there have been a number of instances [...]
A small victory, admittedly against the Guardian which should know better than to write the sort of rubbish they did back in August. Read the original complaint here The article has been amended to remove all reference to “genetic modification” (including by changing the headline) and to correct a few other errors. The following footnote [...]
Either governments are composed of utter idiots, or they are corrupt and following an agenda for some unstated reason.
The fact that the Guardian reprinted this nasty example of Le Monde police propaganda as a news story without any critical analysis can only be seen as an attempt to undermine the growing law reform movement bother here and in France.
The Daily Mail can, when it wants to, publish good objective stories factually reporting events related to drugs – honest, it can and it’s done it on several occasions over the years. This week, however, the paper hit a particularly low point in an item written by Amanda Platell regarding the death of Amy Winehouse [...]