Anyone who has traveled around the world – especially to the US – will know how bad TV and the broadcast media in general can be, likewise traveling around this country skipping from station to station on the car radio is usually a depressing experience, a choice of lots and lots of identikit commercial stations all playing the [...]

read more from this topic.....

The BBC has been at it again, local radio this time, BBC Sussex. The item was also published on the BBC news website here “Skunk cannabis addiction ‘growing’ across South East” this could have been a very useful investigation as they went out to buy samples of street cannabis which they then got analysed. What [...]

read more from this topic.....

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

read more from this topic.....

A few weeks ago this blog carried a critique of a BBC programme about cannabis called “How drugs work” – read it here. The programme contained a misleading and wrong claim: Skunk is the name given to genetically engineered weed designed to deliver the maximum does of mind altering THC This is going further than [...]

read more from this topic.....

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.

read more from this topic.....

It seems they simply don’t want to look at the real chaos they’ve caused, instead hoping to try to convince the public that the problem is people not obeying the prohibition law, rather than accepting that the situation is caused by that law. This programme by the BBC was a part of that deception attempt.

read more from this topic.....

Two media outlets not normally associated with presenting a complex view of the world had a go at doing just that this week – BBC 3 and The Sun!

read more from this topic.....

Better than some of the rubbish we’ve seen maybe, but still a long way from being good.

read more from this topic.....

The coalition government (the “condems” seems to be their unofficial title) have opened a real can of worms by playing the “freedom” card. Lord Young went on Radio 4 last week to announce he wants to “scrap ‘excessive’ safety regulations” in the name of allowing people to take risks which they decide are reasonable and [...]

read more from this topic.....

Something interesting is happening in the USA, even the American right is starting to have a debate about drug law reform.

read more from this topic.....