Mankind has had getting on for 5 thousand years of recorded experience of cannabis. OK, maybe not here in the UK, but certainly in many cultures around the world. There is, or was before prohibition was imposed on these cultures and did its best to eradicate it, a wealth of social knowledge about its effects [...]

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The BBC is the best broadcasting organisation in the world and Radio 4 is the best radio station in the world. This has been a well earned reputation born of the duties imposed on it by its Royal charter. Now of course, when times get tough the charge has always been that the BBC backs [...]

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Who remembers the consultation the government ran on the future of its drugs policy? The so-called “consultation” was roundly criticised by amongst others, the House of Lords, as Transform reported back in November and again in December. The whole exercise was widely seen as a sham for the frankly dodgy way statistics were presented and [...]

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The number 10 website had this gem on it today: Morning press briefing from 6 May 2008 The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) began by telling the assembled press that the official Cabinet had met for about an hour this morning. There was a further discussion on the draft legislative programme and there was also a [...]

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The issue of cannabis reclassification is bubbling away nicely now. The ACMD has given its report to Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, and it’s been widely leaked as recommending cannabis stays in class C, but Gordon is having non of it; cannabis, he said on GMTV, is “unacceptable” because it’s “lethal”. Now we all know [...]

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