What we also need is a government willing to take the blinkers from its eyes and to accept the fact that there is clearly a great deal of medicinal benefit to be had from herbal cannabis.

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

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David Nutt, the professor famously sacked by the last Labour government for undermining the official policy toward cannabis by telling the truth has just issued another interesting study called “Popular intoxicants: what lessons can be learned from the last 40 years of alcohol and cannabis regulation?” which can be read here on the website of [...]

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Two interesting follow ups to last weeks blog concerning the health advice issued by the Dept of health regarding drugs. The first came from a reader who pointed me to the website run by the NHS: The effects of drugs which has this to say about cannabis: Cannabis can cause anxiety, paranoia and loss of [...]

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Cannabis has never killed anyone directly.

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The best is left to last though. The final drug we’re warned about is – go on, guess. You’ll never guess…

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As regards this leaflet, it’s worth 2/10 and half a cheer at best.

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The Today programme on Radio 4 is hardly to be compared with the lower reaches of the gutter press – like the Daily Mail for example – but this morning’s report about a new study went some way to bridging that gap.

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Perhaps most importantly it doesn’t treat the viewer like a moron with the attention span of an ant, there no annoying “yoof” presentation, no stupid camera techniques, this is an intelligent presentation.

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