Toward the end of last year we heard rumours of a strangely very low profile study by the Home Office into the social costs of reclassifying cannabis back to class B under the Misuse of Drugs Act. This reclassification, you’ll remember, was our great leader’s idea when he took over from Tony Blair and, despite [...]

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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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Things are getting interesting in the US. Just as the UK descends into drug war madness and does its best to paper over the cracks that have started to appear in the drugs policy (more about that later) the whiff of change is forcing its way onto the agenda on the other side of the [...]

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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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Back in March this blog listed some complaints about the Talk to Frank website and it’s recent anti cannabis campaign. In a comment,  Steve Rolles suggested a distilled list of comments be sent in the hope that feedback would improve the site. Well, wheels here at UKCIA can turn slowly but the following e-mail was [...]

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