R.O.A.C.H. – a dodgy cannabis campaign
Drugs education campaigns aimed at kids are of more than a passing interest to UKCIA, especially when they’re done badly.
Reviews and Critiques
Pathways to problems – a report best buried.
As long as the prevention effort is directed against the adult trade in prohibited drugs, kids are just collateral damage and nothing specific can be done to protect them. So all in all as far as cannabis goes this follow up report was probably best buried.
Cannabis – Britain’s secret farms
Assuming the claims about cannabis and mental illness are in any way true, the blame seems to lie with the of extreme hybrids developed to give high yields and to grow fast under lights – the type of cannabis which goes by the generic name of “Skunk”. The UK’s massive “skunk” industry was the subject of a BBC 3 documentary last week, a part of the “Dangerous Pleasure” series entitled “Cannabis, Britain secret farms”.
BBC Radio 4 – The Report – David Nutt and the future of the ACMD – a critique
There was an interesting sounding programme on Radio 4 last week called The Report. The programme was billed as The sacking of the government’s former […]
A critique of the prohibition case and a mention of Transform
Drug law reform seems to be on the agenda in a way it has never been before following the sacking of David Nutt and it’s […]