Despite all the headline grabbing research that’s been carried out to look for cancer causing properties of cannabis, there doesn’t seem to have been any research done to look at the effects of mixing cannabis and tobacco, as is common practice here in the UK. As this blog has mentioned before, a safer smoking campaign […]

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As this blog reported last week, there’s been a flurry of drug law reform articles in the media, prohibition supporters have been having their say and it’s worth looking at their arguments.
Last Sunday in the Observer saw a comment from the head of the UN Office of Drug Control Antonio Maria Costa entitled “How many […]

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These are interesting times indeed. The government seems to have woken up to the need for proper data collection in its research concerning illegal drug use, the legalisation debate has been raging in the Guardian, heroin trials are a success and Gordon Brown finally used the “C” word. Change is in the air at last, […]

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One of the big holes in the logic of the current drugs policy is that somehow alcohol isn’t a drug. This is something this blog has moaned about before - the very existence of “Drug and Alcohol Action Teams” underlines this officially held distinction, as the Cambridgeshire DAAT website states on it’s “about” page (our […]

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The Sentinal - a local paper in the Staffs region of the UK recently published a story about the study by Keele University which failed to support a causal link between cannabis and mental illnes, the thrust of which was really quite interesting:
But the leading expert behind the study said it could be too low-key […]

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