Yesterday saw the death of a young woman who can only be described as a problem drug user, the fact that this young woman was famous probably didn’t help but what happened is a story depressingly familiar to many of us. The young woman in question of course was Amy Winehouse, famous as a singer [...]

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David Raynes starts off with absolutely no sense of irony by referring to the comments made by Nadine Dorries on “Any Questions” the other day

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The Press Complaints Commission a toothless watchdog and as such is effectively is on the side of the media, not the readers.

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In just one week – actually just four days – we’ve had two of the best drug war madness quotes of all time

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Prohibition is failing. OK,  you might expect a blog like this to come out with a statement like that, after all the creeping anarchy and state repression created by prohibition is the main reason sites like this exist. What might not be quite so expected is that prohibition supporters also think prohibition is failing. Despite [...]

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Readers of the Daily Mail have been treated to more than the usual amount of cannabis shock horror stories this week, and the paper has gone into overdrive to misreport things.

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More drugs panic this week with the Mcat scare hitting the tabloids in traditional style. Rather less publicity was given to the government’s refusal – and the reasons for that refusal – to limit alcohol promotion which would have gone a long way to reducing the huge harm that drug causes.

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Two stories over the past few days reported as “news” which actually serve to underline how the prohibition of recreational drug use hides what’s really going on out there in the real world. Before we consider these two reports, it’s perhaps a good idea to remind ourselves that illegal drugs are called “controlled substances” and [...]

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The Sentinal – a local paper in the Staffs region of the UK recently published a story about the study by Keele University which failed to support a causal link between cannabis and mental illnes, the thrust of which was really quite interesting: But the leading expert behind the study said it could be too [...]

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Talk to Frank, the government’s anti drugs advertising campaign, has come in for a lot of criticism on UKCIA for it’s cannabis information, which is often compromised by the need to support the prohibition drug war policy of the government. Indeed, the TV and radio adverts warning young people of the supposed dangers of cannabis [...]

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