UKCIA likes to keep an eye on the government’s anti drug advertising campaign “Talk to Frank” so it was with some interest we heard there was a new anti-cannabis campaign running.
The latest campaign has been designed to highlight the move back to class B and supports a TV advert with an interactive website campaign - […]

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This was the week British drugs policy finally dropped any pretence of being evidence based and officially became an issue of political posturing, of “sending out messages” and of basing laws on what Mr Brown’s government thinks is “unacceptable”.
The government’s advisory body the ACMD produced a report - based on studying a mass of scientific […]

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Tuesday 3rd February saw a programme in the BBC’s “Horizon” series entitled “Cannabis: The Evil Weed?”. The BBC website offered the following summary:
Cannabis is the world’s favourite drug, but also one of the least understood. Can cannabis cause schizophrenia? Is it addictive? Can it lead you on to harder drugs? Or is it simply a […]

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The week began with the farce of cannabis reclassification, a move touted as having been done in order to protect young people from the possible dangers cannabis use might pose, even though those dangers haven’t actually been shown to exist. The “logic” is really quite simple; use the law to deter cannabis use to show […]

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