The prohibitionists hype was trotted out again last week by yet another Tory MP; Charles Walker MP for Broxbourne in Hertfordshire

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The prohibition supporting drug warriors are getting rattled by the emerging evidence that decriminalisation produces better results than hard line prohibition. Chief among those fighting the prohibition corner is Kathy Gyngell who writes a blog for the right-wing “Centre for policy studies” or CPS.  Quite why the CPS allows her to do this is a [...]

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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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A sure sign of a failing policy of repression is the constant need to make it ever more repressive; to widen its scope and to make it less dependent on evidence. The moral panic over the the past week with mephedrone has put the misuse of drugs act under pressure like never before and those [...]

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Talk to Frank is well known in the UK as the government’s anti drug advertising campaign and has been criticised often on this blog (and elsewhere) for the less than fully honest nature of some of it’s information. It’s therefore interesting to compare Talk to Frank – a campaign designed and run by an advertising [...]

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Another interesting blog entry this week from the Centre for policy studies (CPS) written by Kathy Gyngell. This one, entitled “Can the Government stay in denial any longer?” was inspired by the recent United Nations World Drug Report which amongst other things highlighted the failure of the UK’s war on drugs and the high rates [...]

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This is another blog entry about Talking About Cannabis,  what follows is a critique of the Talking about cannabis “Cannabis facts” page which has been re-written this week. It contains a lot of misinformation about cannabis and is seriously misleading. The information presented on Talking About Cannabis was written by Mary Brett apparently. Talking About [...]

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One organisation this site has been critical of before is “Talking About Cannabis”, a site which has been very effective at influencing government policy based on “facts” with very little basis in, well, fact. Talking About Cannabis was headed by Debra Bell who was nothing if not motivated and single minded.  Back in January at [...]

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The rantings of people like Peter Hutchins, a columnist for the Daily Mail – don’t really merit much serious debate. Take his latest rant about the advice given by Talk to Frank (the subject of the last newsblog entry) where he claims: Anyone who knows anything about the subject realises that cannabis is among the [...]

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Having scored a hit with the reclassification of cannabis to class B, the prohibition lobby has the scent of victory in it’s nostrils. There is a new anti-cannabis campaign brewing, based on the “skunk panic”. The claim being made by these people is quite simple: Cannabis has changed from the harmless, weak giggle weed that [...]

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