One of the more depressing aspects of prohibition - well, apart from the violence it creates through funding organised crime and terrorism, the families it tears apart, the environmental damage it cause, the lives it ruins through criminalisation and avoidable health issues … sorry, one of the many depressing aspects of prohibition is the way […]

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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 they […]

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It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. That old Cliche has been shown to be so true this week as the Guardian newspaper - normally one of the more trustworthy of the bunch - demonstrated in style with it’s continued coverage of the Julie Myerson book “The Lost Child”.
Somewhat stung by the generally […]

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At the risk of sounding like a stuck record (or these days I suppose it would be a corrupt MP3 file) the UKCIA position on cannabis is that it isn’t for kids. There is enough of a suggestion of evidence to advise children and young people under the age of about 15 not to get […]

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This blog links to several sound files in MP3 format. With luck they will play simply by clicking the link, if they don’t, right click the link and save them before playing.
As has been noted in the previous two blog entries there are some serious site access problems with the Talk to Frank website for […]

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