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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Talk to Frank, the government’s anti drugs advertising campaign, has come in for a lot of criticism on UKCIA for it’s cannabis information, which is often compromised by the need to support the prohibition drug war policy of the government. Indeed, the TV and radio adverts warning young people of the supposed dangers of cannabis […]

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Not strictly a cannabis story but something has just passed its 10th anniversary and needs a mention.
April 1999 saw one of those events which shaped my involvement with drug law campaigning; a bit like a “train in the face” as an American friend described it; the danger prohibition causes was served up in all its […]

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Transform have been trying without success to get the government to publish a cost/benefit analysis of its drugs policy since late last year. This, remember, is a government that promised “evidence based” policies so it’s reasonable to expect them to actually have the evidence already. Drugs policy is perhaps one of their major policies and […]

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