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# UKCIA

News, knowledge and comment about cannabis law reform

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- [Importing medical cannabis to the UK - Home Office replies](https://ukcia.org/?p=542) - The UK drug law as it applies to cannabis is coming under a lot of pressure and yet this government are desperate to keep their hard line prohibition policy intact whatever the evidence and whatever the harm they cause. It really is quite pathetic.
- [Government propaganda and the BBC](https://ukcia.org/?p=2805) - The issue of fake "THC" vapes is not a new one. Back in 2019 UKCIA reported on this very issue (Fake vape juice containing SCRA), in truth this has been a known issue for at least the past five years. Strange then that the BBC should make a programme about this very thing as if
- [Fake vape juice containing SCRA](https://ukcia.org/?p=2113) - Greater Manchester Drug Alert Panel have issued a warning about supposedly THCvapes which actually contain what they refer to as "spice", but which are more correctly termed SCRAs (Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists)
- [Prohibition is not drug control](https://ukcia.org/?p=2769) - At the end of March 2023 the killer of a little girl in Liverpool, Olivia Pratt-Korbel, was sentenced for her murder. This was an horrific case of a drug gang gun fight which ended in the death of this innocent little girl. Obviously our sympathies are with the family, that surely doesn't need saying. Read The present drugs policy is creating problems very much worse than cannabis use itself could ever cause, it really is time to admit that.
- [EX-SCRA: Understanding A New Prohibition Created Danger](https://ukcia.org/?p=1504) - So called "Synthetic Cannabis" is the product of drug war funded NIDA - the US National Institute of Drug Abuse - an own goal of epic proportions.
- [Reefer Madness Dishonesty](https://ukcia.org/?p=2547) - There is nothing worse than a scientist attempting to influence an important referendum by promoting a belief as an established fact, presenting disputed research as proof whilst ignoring the many other issues pertinent to the debate. This is the charge against Prof Mary Cannon.
- [The Dangerous Rise of Contaminated Weed](https://ukcia.org/?p=2735) - #post_excerptOne of the big fears when so-called "legal highs" were banned was that SCRAs would end up being sprayed onto low quality herbal cannabis to make it stronger
- [Cannabis - Copyright God](https://ukcia.org/?p=2526) - Cannabis is used as a sacrament by many people, yet prohibition makes it illegal.
- [Cannabis use and covid](https://ukcia.org/?p=2509) - Cannabis smoking and Covid - welcome to the new normal
- [Time to take a break from sharing joints](https://ukcia.org/?p=2497) - I never thought I'd write a headline like that and actually mean it, sharing a spliff or whatever has long been a part of the cannabis culture. Sorry and I bet I won't be popular for saying it but here goes: This is what I think is probably pretty obvious advice really, sharing spliff is
- [Cannabis contamination - return to the bad old days?](https://ukcia.org/?p=2487) - Possible grit weed reported on Merseyside
- [Three Arguments Why Marijuana Should Stay Illegal Reviewed - Video](https://ukcia.org/?p=2482) - It's not often I come across a video which looks at the claims made by the prohibition and the law reform lobbies and takes an objective view of both, but here's one. Take a look, the only criticism is the use of the word Marijuana rather than cannabis, but we can live with that!
- [UKCIA gets a facelift and a new home](https://ukcia.org/?p=2466) - There were dead links all over the place, terrible html and other stuff that really had to be sorted out.
- [Royal College Of Psychiatrists “Cannabis and mental health” leaflet – a critique revisited](https://ukcia.org/?p=1885) - This leaflet published by the RCPsych might be expected to be a truthful and factual summary of the effects of cannabis on mental health, it is anything but.
- [Talk to Frank is still there - Part 1 Cannabis info](https://ukcia.org/?p=2271) - I think most of us have forgotten about Talk to Frank. Its seems a lifetime ago since the government's anti-drug information site was launched with a blaze of publicity, it's had a few make-overs over the years (some better than others) but has become almost forgotten in the public eye, but it's still there and
- [Talk to Frank is still there - Part 2 Medicinal cannabis and SCRAs](https://ukcia.org/?p=2295) - Talk to Frank really does leave a lot to be desired on occasion, but this is beyond satire. Sometimes it's almost as if they just didn't know what to write and just copy pasted stuff to fill the space. The section on medicinal cannabis is an outstanding example of Talk to Frank at its cut
- [Cannabis enforcement cannot be a part of widespread stop and search or we'll pay a dear price](https://ukcia.org/?p=2340) - Searching for cannabis is like fishing in a bucket in some areas, you're almost guaranteed to find some.
- [The International Cannabis Survey 2018 - Kings College London](https://ukcia.org/?p=2053) - from my point of view this is a huge wasted opportunity to investigate cannabis use the attitudes and experience of users. Your experiences will not be the same as mine and so I would ask everyone to take this survey, but do let the researcher know if you have problems with any of it.
- [Kings College almost make a logical conclusion from a cannabis study, but fail to.](https://ukcia.org/?p=2016) - Another press release from King College London (KCL) about so-called "skunk" came out yesterday 27th February 2018
- [The International Cannabis Survey 2018 – Dr Musa Sami of KCL Replies](https://ukcia.org/?p=2097) - Following the blog I posted on Sunday 18th March, the researcher running the survey, Dr Musa Sami responded
- ["Skunk", Reefer Madness, legalisation. Stuff like that.](https://ukcia.org/?p=1850) - By all means grit your teeth when you talk about "so-called "skunk"" and do your best to talk about "street weed", but remember that propaganda turned and used against its originator is deadly.
- [Options for the legal sale of cannabis](https://ukcia.org/?p=2000) - Big business has done nothing for consumer choice and arguably nothing to reduce the harm caused by alcohol, why should cannabis be different?
- [Cannabis Cod Science - Enough is Enough.](https://ukcia.org/?p=1988) - If you can't measure it, you can't do science on it and garbage in = garbage out.
- [Congratulations to United Patients Alliance, now what about the rest of us?](https://ukcia.org/?p=1969) - An amazingly successful event happened this week - The United Patient's Alliance (UPA), a group campaigning for the right to use cannabis medicinally, held a high-profile "Cannabis Tea Party" demonstration at Parliament. Timed to support a private members bill by MP Paul Flynn, it was actually inspired by Paul's "invitation" a while back for medicinal
- [The Tyranny of Regulation](https://ukcia.org/?p=1950) - Probably one of the most potent arguments in favour of drug law reform is based on the idea of taking control of the huge trade in drugs from the uncontrolled criminal gangs and properly regulating that trade to ensure a consistent product.
- [Prohibition is Harm Maximisation](https://ukcia.org/?p=1938) - Nothing on earth is "harmless", nothing is absolutely safe for everyone under all conditions of use.
- [The (so called) "Skunk" Scare and What To Do About It.](https://ukcia.org/?p=1917) - To be honest, there is so much hype and lies being told about this subject it's difficult to know where to start
- [The Skunk Panic](https://ukcia.org/?p=1823) - If cannabis is as dangerous as they claim it is, for the reasons they tell us, then the present system of prohibition is especially unfit for purpose.
- [Home Office Cannabis potency study](https://ukcia.org/?p=49) - Next week sees the upgrading of cannabis to its new position as a "special" class B drug which, unlike all other class B drugs, will see "offences" of possession dealt with by a warning or - if they can get the measure approved in time - by a spot fine of £80. UKCIA isn't alone
- [CLEAR Medicinal Cannabis Campaign Featured On CNN](https://ukcia.org/?p=1763) - Last weekend CLEAR member Jamie (previously known only as "Clarence CLEAR") made a return trip to Holland to pick up his second prescription.
- [CLEAR updates its plan](https://ukcia.org/?p=1757) - The core mission statement for CLEAR cannabis reform has been updated to V 2.0
- [The Cannabis Hypocrisy Protest and BBC3 Free Speech](https://ukcia.org/?p=1748) - Two very different drug law reform events this week - a small smoke out in London and a TV programme
- [Harm Maximisation](https://ukcia.org/?p=1745) - Drug prohibition sets out to increase the to users - that makes it a unique type of public policy
- [James Collins writes...](https://ukcia.org/?p=1730) - Someone out to damage the CLEAR cannabis law reform campaign,
- [Smoke-outs again](https://ukcia.org/?p=1728) - Are cannabis smoke-outs a good thing? Do they help the law reform effort?
- [Diane Abbott question - update](https://ukcia.org/?p=1725) - The government doesn't collect data on cannabis use specifically.
- [Diane Abbott - Ignorant or deceptive?](https://ukcia.org/?p=1712) - Is the recent uptick in mental health problems due to cannabinoid use due to SCRA's - legal high fake cannabis, rather than "skunk" as Diane Abbot claims?
- [Reefer madness: A Logical Brick Wall.](https://ukcia.org/?p=1701) - Yet more reefer madness claims int he media, claims which actually undermine the prohibition case.
- [Is Cannabis A Drug (Reprise)](https://ukcia.org/?p=1688) - Cannabis is a drug, but it is a totally unique drug. It's also a drug because politicians say it is.
- [Dr Gary Potter issues an apology on the Cannabis Cultivation Research Consortium Website](https://ukcia.org/?p=1640) - Dr Gary Potter has issued an apology to UKCIA and CLEAR regarding comments made on the GCCRC website.
- [Prohibition of Medicinal Cannabis use: An example of Torture in the Name of the Law.](https://ukcia.org/?p=1669) - If we have to prioritise the case for cannabis law reform the right of access to cannabis as a medicine is surely the most important. What follows is a story which demonstrates why this is so and why the inhumanity of the prohibition laws is difficult to describe in any other way than torture. Stephen
- [Munchies and the risk of developing Diabetes](https://ukcia.org/?p=1657) - Cannabis munchies don't make you fat and cannabis protects against diabetes
- [Victor Lacata And The Birth Of Reefer Madness](https://ukcia.org/?p=1629) - The name Victor Licata is not a household name, but the story was to play a large part in the prohibition of cannabis with the creation of "reefer madness"
- [Nailing Jelly to the Wall](https://ukcia.org/?p=1620) - SCRA's Vs the Misuse of Drugs Act: SCRA 1, MoDA 0
- [Who to trust for reliable information?](https://ukcia.org/?p=1617) - Bad information from drugscope, bad education from HIT and lies from the Sun
- [2012: A review of a year of hate and hope](https://ukcia.org/?p=1600) - Highs and lows of 2012 from UKCIA
- [A Royal Commission? - Far too risky for prohibitionists.](https://ukcia.org/?p=1593) - The timid HASC report on drugs policy went a little bit too far for the prohibition lobby,
- [Help the UK arm of the Global Cannabis Cultivation Research Consortium challenge some stereotypes.](https://ukcia.org/?p=1576) - Update 7th December For the time being links to this study are suspended pending ongoing negotiations. This blog remains online for information, but for now UKCIA cannot recommend participation in the study. We hope issues will be resolved soon. ________________________ UK Cannabis Growers Survey -Click here to take part Senior Lecturer in Criminology,
- [Does Decriminalisation Make Sense?](https://ukcia.org/?p=1573) - Decrim, a daft idea if it were not for the fact it's better than prohibition
- [Manchester Metropolitan University Study](https://ukcia.org/?p=1565) - MMU is condicting a study into cannabis use and mental health to see if at risk users can be identified at an early stage.
- [No-one uses cannabis anymore?](https://ukcia.org/?p=1558) - News this weeks suggests there has been a big reduction in the number of young people using cannabis in recent years according to the Home office (Drug Misuse Declared: Findings from the 2011/12 Crime Survey for England and Wales (2nd Edition)youth culture - here). So what's going on? Why is cannabis apparently going out of
- [The Police Cause "Cannabis Crime"](https://ukcia.org/?p=1537) - The crime attributed to drugs is actually caused by prohibition and the fact that the trade is forced int ot he arms of organised crime
- [Can Cannabis Really Cure Cancer?](https://ukcia.org/?p=1517) - Cannabis oil is claimed to have cancer curing properties, if so this is a bombshell of good news.
- [Russell Brand; please, shut up.](https://ukcia.org/?p=1510) - Russell Brand, media personality turned drug addition know it all is undermining the debate we need to behaving but aren't.
- [A CLEAR Plan For The Regulation Of Cannabis In Britain – Public Consultation](https://ukcia.org/?p=1498) - How do you want the law reform campaign to develop? Have your say now.
- [Kathy Glyngell - "Cannabis in the UK"; a critique](https://ukcia.org/?p=1475) - Another example of cherry picked studies from one of the well known prohibition supporters.
- [Addiction Today - A Prohibition Supporting Comic](https://ukcia.org/?p=1472) - Addiction today has an agenda, it is not a fact based publication, it is not neutral.
- [Ken Clarke's belief in fairyland Vs the emerging synthetic reality](https://ukcia.org/?p=1465) - Ken Clarke, the Justice Secretary, made news the other day by telling the truth, or at least some of the truth.
- [More reefer madness, this time from the British Lung Foundation](https://ukcia.org/?p=1438) - Cherry picked data and misleading conclusions about cannabis from the british lung foundation
- [NORML UK - a review of the new campaign and its website ](https://ukcia.org/?p=1453) - A new UK cannabis law reform group NORML UK has launched with a website thin on detail, aimed at cannabis users rather than the general public.
- [Comment sent to the British Lung Foundation](https://ukcia.org/?p=1449) - I asked on the BLF Facebook page for a contact e-mail and was given a personal address to send comments to. I'm awaiting a reply -------------------------------------------- 11th June 2012 Sir I have been given your e-mail address as the one to contact regarding the BLF's recent report into cannabis: "The impact of
- [The BBC - the world's least bad broadcaster, maybe.](https://ukcia.org/?p=1428) - The BBC is often considered a trustworthy source of news, not when it comes to cannabis though
- [Autogeddon repression?](https://ukcia.org/?p=1422) - The need to own and driving a car offers the government a way to control the population
- [Cannabis cultivation: Are the police really that stupid?](https://ukcia.org/?p=1414) - Police warn about the effects of government policy but don't tell the truth, hence appear stupid
- [CLEAR carries on](https://ukcia.org/?p=1410) - The leader of CLEAR - Peter Reynolds has survived a vote of confidence and so remains the leader of the campaign
- [HASC drugs inquiry - a stitch-up in the making?](https://ukcia.org/?p=1395) - Why no examination of non-problem drug use? No inclusion of the consumers
- [Videos of the Cannabis Carnivals](https://ukcia.org/?p=1392) - Digging around in my cardboard box of old tapes I came up with these gems The Independent On Sunday Decriminalise Cannabis March, 1998 The short lived IoS decrim cannabis campaign sparked off a series of annual "Cannabis Carnivals" organised by the Green Party, Exodus Collective and CLCIA amongst others which ran from 1999 to 2004.
- [Daily Mail fail.](https://ukcia.org/?p=1388) - The Daily Mail printed a report about a study into cannabis and mental health which was total lies and the PCC failed to correct it
- [CLEAR?](https://ukcia.org/?p=1380) - As of now, Peter Reynolds is still the official leader of CLEAR, contrary to some claims being made he was not unseated.
- [UKCIA submission to the Home Affairs Committee Drugs Enquiry](https://ukcia.org/?p=1384) - Submission to the drugs enquirey. Concerning cannabis and the need for law reform, January 2012
- [Corruption at the heart of government](https://ukcia.org/?p=1376) - UK government is rotton to the core, the case of Conservative Party co-treasurer Peter Cruddas has blown the lid off this murky world of corruption.
- [Rights, Representation and Reason](https://ukcia.org/?p=1373) - cannabis law reform campaign, who does it represnt, what is the aim?
- [Small Minds Discuss People...](https://ukcia.org/?p=1337) - An interesting development has occurred in recent months which is unlike anything I've ever seen before and it hasn't been pretty. For the past several months there has been a campaign waged against the leader of CLEAR, Peter Reynolds. which has taken the form of a "cyber bullying" campaign. What makes this perhaps even more
- [A summary of the health harms of drugs (NHS) - Critique of the cannabis information ](https://ukcia.org/?p=881) - Cannabis has never killed anyone directly.
- [The new abstentionists Vs Industrial substitution](https://ukcia.org/?p=19) - A tale of two drugs this week, one illegal and one legal, but both showing that what ever it is the government are trying to do isn't working. Paul Hayes of the NTA in the Guardian Firstly poor old Paul Hayes of the National Treatment Agency (NTA) went into print in the Guardian to defend
- [The future of the cannabis law reform movement](https://ukcia.org/?p=20) - Part 2 - what is "Harm Reduction"? So where now? This seems to be the big question struggling to find it's way onto the agenda of cannabis law reform campaigners over recent months. Perhaps first it's time for a quick review of how the case for cannabis law reform has been made in the past,
- [The future of cannabis law reform campaigning 2: Harm reduction](https://ukcia.org/?p=21) - An interesting commentary this week from Canada - The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse actually - on the meaning of "Harm Reduction" as a strategy for dealing with drug use Harm Reduction: What's in a name? It's true that prohibition campaigners have long been suspicious of harm reduction as being what they claim is a
- [Tobacco - an old issue finally raises its head.](https://ukcia.org/?p=29) - The sun: "Quitting ciggies goes to pot" - 10th September 2008 CANNABIS use is the biggest obstacle in getting teenagers to give up cigarettes, a study warned. Smokers are extremely unlikely to quit while regularly enjoying a joint, said a British Medical Journal report. And for some “this may be an insurmountable barrier to quitting”.
- [Royal College Of Psychiatrists "Cannabis and mental health" leaflet - a crtitique](https://ukcia.org/?p=71) - Continuing the series of critiques of cannabis information offered by various organisations, this weeks wooden spoon award goes to The Royal College of Psychiatrists for their "Cannabis and Mental Health" leaflet. Now lets be clear about the reason for the less than glowing critique you're about to read. The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RC Psych
- [Comment - High-potency cannabis and the risk of psychosis study.](https://ukcia.org/?p=105) - Skunk cannabis and psychosis link - research
- [Is protest always a good thing?](https://ukcia.org/?p=36) - Something that had been in the pipeline for a while came to pass last week. It hasn't been discussed before on this blog for reasons which will become clear, essentially because to have done so could have been construed as undermining a well intentioned effort. It was to be hoped that everything cannabis law reformers
- [Cannabis use during pregnancy - no link to schizophrenia in offspring found by study](https://ukcia.org/?p=89) - A study with the snappy title of "Maternal tobacco, cannabis and alcohol use during pregnancy and risk of adolescent psychotic symptoms in offspring" was published recently in BJpsych (abstract) (full text) by researchers at Cardiff, Bristol, Warwick and Nottingham universities which threw another spanner in the claims that cannabis causes schizophrenia. As the title suggests
- [A regulated cannabis trade: IDMU report and CLEAR proposal](https://ukcia.org/?p=906) - Today was a big day for the cannabis law reform organisation "CLEAR", due to the unveiling of a report written by the Independent Drugs Monitoring Unit (IDMU) concerning the tax raising potential of a regulated cannabis trade and CLEAR's proposals for a regulated regime for cannabis which took place in a full meeting room in
- [The Pressure Cooker Effect.](https://ukcia.org/?p=1273) - What's this has to do with Cannabis law reform is it provides a wonderful metaphor for prohibition and, specifically, where we are now with events.
- [Cannabis and mental health - to B or not to B (again)](https://ukcia.org/?p=5) - Welcome to a new feature on UKCIA as we enter the world of blogs - the UKCIA newsblog The debate over whether cannabis should be re-reclassified back to class B is one of those issues deeply interesting to politicians, but about which most cannabis users really couldn't care less. However, the British government has dug
- [Cannabinoid combination affects cannabis-linked psychological symptoms](https://ukcia.org/?p=9) - Because of prohibition, probably most young cannabis users in the UK know of only two kinds of cannabis: "solid" or "Green", by which they mean low grade hash or herbal. Despite a whole generation of cannabis use, people are generally more ignorant about what is on offer now than they ever were. In truth, as
- [Cannabis contamination - lead.](https://ukcia.org/?p=6) - UKCIA has been warning about contaminated cannabis for over a year now. Back in December 2006 we were a alerted to the "Grit weed" problem - herbal cannabis containing microscopic glass beads. Things, it seems, have just taken a turn for the worse - much worse. The April 10th issue of the New England Journal
- [The UK Drug Policy Commission report "Tackling Drug Markets and Distribution Networks in the UK"](https://ukcia.org/?p=22) - As you drive over the Pyrenees - the mountains which separate France and Spain - it becomes possible to hear Radio 4 on Long Wave if you can ignore the static and the cricket isn't on. So it was, parked on a campsite near the French town of Condom, I braved the loud static bursts
- [Daily Mail print the truth shock horror](https://ukcia.org/?p=7) - Over the past four years or so the Daily Mail newspaper has been amongst the most rabid of the tabloid press as regards cannabis. It's carried story after story about the supposed dangers of cannabis use, and is of course home to Melanie Phillips, who's views are always good for a laugh. If there were
- [BBC Radio 4 "The Cannabis Trade" - an example of media bias](https://ukcia.org/?p=14) - The BBC is the best broadcasting organisation in the world and Radio 4 is the best radio station in the world. This has been a well earned reputation born of the duties imposed on it by its Royal charter. Now of course, when times get tough the charge has always been that the BBC backs
- [Ian Oliver PhD (public administration) on drugs](https://ukcia.org/?p=25) - The highlight of the week was without doubt the contribution to the law reform debate by Dr Ian Oliver; former Chief Constable of Grampian police, author and an independent consultant to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Now with credentials like that, Dr Oliver certainly sounds like someone to listened to, so perhaps
- [The Beckley Foundation report and the way it was reported](https://ukcia.org/?p=32) - Update 7th October: The Beckley Foundation Report Cannabis Policy: Moving beyond Stalemate is online here -------------------------------------------------------- We've seen yet more examples of the media misreporting news relating to cannabis over the past week or so, either by simply ignoring developments or of just carrying the government line without question. Firstly the need for law reform
- [Cannabis psychosis scare Vs tobacco policy](https://ukcia.org/?p=38) - News this week about the rates of use of cannabis and its relationship to the development of mental illness - almost a case of chickens coming home to roost for just about everyone involved in the whole debate. The stated aim of UK drugs policy as it relates to cannabis is to reduce its use
- [Latest cannabis contamination - homosildenafil and thiohomosildenafil (AKA Viagra)](https://ukcia.org/?p=39) - Cannabis isn't a controlled drug, it's an illegal one. The practical upshot of this is street supplies are contaminated and, it seems, an ever more regular basis. The first mass scare we were aware of of course was "soap bar", adulterated hash. Then came microscopic glass beads sprayed into herbal cannabis, recently we heard of
- ['Cannabis psychosis' - an early warning!](https://ukcia.org/?p=41) - Last Sunday's blog created an interesting degree of feedback, some of which was sent via the UKCIA contact form rather than as comments to the actual blog. One comment posted to the blog needs addressing: Steve Rolles wrote I think the problem has not been no evidence for mental health risks - there clearly is
- [Cannabis reclassification - impact assessment.](https://ukcia.org/?p=44) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE May31st 2009 UKCIA was informed that the Home Office document discussed here - the Cannabis Reclassification Impact Assessment - seemed to be offline. It appears the Home Office has changed the URL of the document, which can now be seen here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Principles of Managing Risks to the Public, a document issued
- [Talking About Cannabis launches new help line](https://ukcia.org/?p=48) - Talking about Cannabis is a website campaign run by one Debra Bell from South London. The stated aims of the organisation are set out on the website: Aims: to provide, and stimulate debate on, cannabis prevention education and treatment, using sound scientific and medical evidence, with special emphasis on 'skunk' cannabis in relation to children
- [THC, CBD and the misleading concept of "Potency".](https://ukcia.org/?p=50) - Some new research by Dr Zerrin Atakan and Prof Philip McGuire has thrown some light on the way cannabis actually works by looking at the effects of THC and CBD - the two principal components of cannabis. The fact that there are two major active components in cannabis means there's a big problem for anyone
- [Cannabis users are no longer third class criminals! Welcome to Class Bspecial.](https://ukcia.org/?p=51) - THUD! You probably heard it as well, that deep sub-bass note as millions of Rizla papers hit the floor in unison across the land as the clock struck midnight last night, the shear horror of what the government had done by moving cannabis back to class B finally sank in and people realised that it
- [Reefer madness V3 and the Daily Mail sets the record straight!](https://ukcia.org/?p=58) - 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
- [The government on drugs: alcohol Vs cannabis yet again.](https://ukcia.org/?p=52) - The week began with the farce of cannabis reclassification, a move touted as having been done in order to protect young people from the possible dangers cannabis use might pose, even though those dangers haven't actually been shown to exist. The "logic" is really quite simple; use the law to deter cannabis use to show
- [Horizon - Cannabis the evil weed? Critique](https://ukcia.org/?p=53) - Tuesday 3rd February saw a programme in the BBC's "Horizon" series entitled "Cannabis: The Evil Weed?". The BBC website offered the following summary: Cannabis is the world's favourite drug, but also one of the least understood. Can cannabis cause schizophrenia? Is it addictive? Can it lead you on to harder drugs? Or is it simply
- [Talk to Frank messes with your mind](https://ukcia.org/?p=55) - UKCIA likes to keep an eye on the government's anti drug advertising campaign "Talk to Frank" so it was with some interest we heard there was a new anti-cannabis campaign running. The latest campaign has been designed to highlight the move back to class B and supports a TV advert with an interactive website campaign
- [Talk to Frank - Cannabis information critique](https://ukcia.org/?p=56) - The Talk to Frank cannabis page has been updated following the move from class C back to B, so it's time to take a look at the latest version of the truth as presented by the government's anti drug advertising campaign. Sadly this version of the truth is by far the worst yet. Critiques of
- [Skunk panic: The Myerson's book Vs the need for child protection                                                                ](https://ukcia.org/?p=59) - 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
- [The Skunk Panic - the new prohibitionist campaign for class A](https://ukcia.org/?p=60) - 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
- [A cost benefit analysis for the war on drugs? The government just says "no"!](https://ukcia.org/?p=62) - 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
- [Talk to Frank gives good, honest information shock horror.](https://ukcia.org/?p=64) - 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
- [Peter O'Loughlin -  a well known drug warrior misrepresents UKCIA](https://ukcia.org/?p=65) - 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
- [Complaining to Frank](https://ukcia.org/?p=66) - 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
- [Talked about cannabis, then walked with the air of a skunk.](https://ukcia.org/?p=67) - 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
- [SOCA, Spice and a war on our own people.](https://ukcia.org/?p=68) - 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
- [Talking About Cannabis: Cannabis Facts - A critique](https://ukcia.org/?p=69) - 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
- [The Home Office again - including the strange case of the missing impact assessment V2](https://ukcia.org/?p=70) - 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
- [Smoke Alarm: Clearhead tackles Cannabis and tobacco.](https://ukcia.org/?p=72) - A new website came to my attention last week called "Smokealarm", dedicated, so it says, to ... raising awareness among community practitioners concerning the addictive interdependency of cannabis and tobacco, as well as changing the habits and lives of smokers. The issue of cannabis and tobacco has been an issue this site has been trying
- [Talk to Frank - Home office replies!](https://ukcia.org/?p=73) - The drugs unit at the Home Office finally managed a reply to my comments regarding Talk to Frank information sent in April and presented in this blog from May 5th The reply did at least address most of my points. Comments are added throughout: Home Office: Thank you for your email dated 16th April where
- [No need for weed - a review of the Clearhead book](https://ukcia.org/?p=74) - Four years ago in 2005 I first heard of James Langton and his "Clearhead" organisation. It was in Liverpool actually, at a conference organised by HIT. Over the next few years James popped up in what can only be described as all the "wrong" places, giving out just the sort of messages the cannabis using
- [Common or garden weeds and what to do about them - advice from the Centre for Policy Studies.](https://ukcia.org/?p=75) - Another interesting blog entry this week from the Centre for policy studies (CPS) written by Kathy Gyngell. This one, entitled "Can the Government stay in denial any longer?" was inspired by the recent United Nations World Drug Report which amongst other things highlighted the failure of the UK's war on drugs and the high rates
- [Cannabis and mental illness - the Keele Study ](https://ukcia.org/?p=76) - Something we've been waiting for ages for has finally arrived; the government has (albeit very quietly) published the study from Keele University entitled "Assessing the impact of cannabis use on trends in diagnosed schizophrenia in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005" (edit 2011 - read the full paper here) Some 16 months back the
- [Cannabis and mental illness - the Keele Study (more)](https://ukcia.org/?p=77) - Last week in this blog I made an appeal for people to send in a copy of the Keele study "Assessing the impact of cannabis use on trends in diagnosed schizophrenia in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005" by Martin Frisher Ilana Crome, Orsolina Martino and Peter Croft and it was heartening that so
- [NCPIC - The Australian Talk to Frank](https://ukcia.org/?p=78) - Talk to Frank is well known in the UK as the government's anti drug advertising campaign and has been criticised often on this blog (and elsewhere) for the less than fully honest nature of some of it's information. It's therefore interesting to compare Talk to Frank - a campaign designed and run by an advertising
- [The media, fake news reporting and getting the word out.](https://ukcia.org/?p=80) - 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
- [Cannabis/tobacco - American research](https://ukcia.org/?p=87) - 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
- [More BBC anti cannabis hype on behalf of the government - "Revealed - cannabis"](https://ukcia.org/?p=88) - Nobody listens to people who "cry wolf" or who are hypocrites. Nothing could be nearer the truth when it comes to the government's anti cannabis campaign aimed at young people. The problem we have is real; we have ever younger kids getting hold of and smoking cannabis and despite of all the effort being put
- [Now tell us something we didn't already know...](https://ukcia.org/?p=90) - Two stories over the past few days reported as "news" which actually serve to underline how the prohibition of recreational drug use hides what's really going on out there in the real world. Before we consider these two reports, it's perhaps a good idea to remind ourselves that illegal drugs are called "controlled substances" and
- [Preventing cannabis use will not have much effect on rates of mental illness - study.](https://ukcia.org/?p=91) - Just how many people would you need to prevent getting stoned to have any hope of reducing the rates of mental illness if the theory of a causal role for cannabis were true? The answer, it seems, is rather a lot. A strange bit of research was published this week by researchers at Bristol, London,
- [The case of Professor Nutt and the need for political lies.](https://ukcia.org/?p=93) - UK drugs policy is in chaos and it's all the fault of politicians playing to the media instead of making policy based on fact. To paraphrase Douglas Adams of "The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy" fame: The skills needed to get elected mean that anyone who has the ability to do so is precisely
- [A critique of the prohibition case and a mention of Transform](https://ukcia.org/?p=95) - 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 clear the prohibition camp is rattled. Into this debate the Transform campaign has launched it's latest publication "After the war on drugs - A blueprint for regulation" (download here) -
- [BBC Radio 4 - The Report - David Nutt and the future of the ACMD - a critique](https://ukcia.org/?p=96) - 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 chief drugs adviser caused outrage in some quarters of the scientific community. Professor David Nutt had criticised the government's decision to reclassify cannabis from class C to class B. James
- [The interesting case of Professor Nutt ](https://ukcia.org/?p=150) - Towards the end of the last year some of us in the cannabis law reform campaign began to feel they had a new hero in Professor David Nutt and perhaps in some ways they did. To recap - assuming you've been away with the fairies for the past few months and missed it - Prof
- [Cannabis - Britain's secret farms](https://ukcia.org/?p=186) - 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".
- [The intention to cause harm ](https://ukcia.org/?p=227) - The war on drugs came up with another daft idea this week, from Scotland this time.
- [There is no such thing as an illegal drug (reprise)](https://ukcia.org/?p=241) - Way back in the early 90's there were several attempts to prove that cannabis couldn't actually be illegal, that the law was not only "immoral in principal and unworkable in practice" as the famous 1967 petition in the Times put it but was actually in and of itself illegal. A book was even published by
- [Government forced to publish consultation paper on the future of drugs classification 2006.](https://ukcia.org/?p=252) - We all know and understand that the drug laws are supposedly based on the harm drugs can cause, hence the ABC classification system. What is also becoming common knowledge is that the whole thing is in a mess.
- [Freedom of Information ruling on drug classification proposals](https://ukcia.org/?p=262) - Some more details about the Information Commissioner's ruling regarding the review of the classification system of the Misuse of Drugs Act has been provided by the Drug Equality Alliance.
- [Drugs panic shock horror again...](https://ukcia.org/?p=266) - More drugs panic this week with the Mcat scare hitting the tabloids in traditional style. Rather less publicity was given to the government's refusal - and the reasons for that refusal - to limit alcohol promotion which would have gone a long way to reducing the huge harm that drug causes.
- [Drugs law enforcement causes violence and dosen't stop supplies, so let's have more of it.](https://ukcia.org/?p=269) - A sure sign of a failing policy of repression is the constant need to make it ever more repressive; to widen its scope and to make it less dependent on evidence. The moral panic over the the past week with mephedrone has put the misuse of drugs act under pressure like never before and those
- [Freedom of Information ruling on drug classification proposals blocked by the Home Office](https://ukcia.org/?p=282) - A few weeks ago this blog reported on a significant development. The Drug Equality Alliance (DEA) had obtained a Freedom of Information ruling forcing the government to publish the draft consultation document on a review of the UK’s drugs classification system. You can read the full account of it here and here. This was a
- [Pathways to problems - a report best buried.](https://ukcia.org/?p=289) - 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.
- [Contamination - Now we have some real evidence.](https://ukcia.org/?p=296) - Prohibition is harm maximisation of a sort not limited to the problems of gangland violence, it adds the sort of dangers only an unregulated and uncontrolled trade under the constant threat of disruption can produce; that of contamination.
- [Freedom of information appeal on drugs classification - almost 40 pages of black censor pen.](https://ukcia.org/?p=307) - Now the election is out of the way and Charles Clarke is no longer an MP, we have a tiny little bit of the drugs classification report released under the FOI ruling but the vast majority remains, to use the strange term for censorship, "redacted" by the big black pen pending the outcome of the appeal.
- [Disabled activist implores jury to convict for growing cannabis](https://ukcia.org/?p=320) - When prescribed pharmaceuticals fail, we have the 'choice' of obeying a blunt and pointless law that demands either our passive agony, or opting for a life worth living by breaking it. This is no choice at all.
- [Proposals for a review of the drugs classification system FOI release in full and the appeal.](https://ukcia.org/?p=328) - Apparently the Misuse of Drugs Act can't apply to drugs which have widespread public acceptance according to the Home Office.
- [Cannabis and mental health - two new studies give the "wrong" results!](https://ukcia.org/?p=335) - Cause for double celebration this week with the publication of two new bits of research looking at cannabis and mental illness The first casts further doubt on the links between cannabis use and and the development of mental illness. The study is called "Are cannabis use disorders associated with an earlier age at onset of
- [R.O.A.C.H. - a dodgy cannabis campaign](https://ukcia.org/?p=343) - Drugs education campaigns aimed at kids are of more than a passing interest to UKCIA, especially when they're done badly.
- [Edwin Stratton - an appeal for equal treatment under the law.](https://ukcia.org/?p=349) - So it was, perhaps, only a matter of time before someone who was getting a very real benefit from his use of cannabis, who was not causing any problem to anyone else with his cannabis use, should object to having his life torn apart and being dragged through the courts by this selective application of the law.
- [Fox "News" - John Stossel "Time to Stop Fighting the Drug War" review.](https://ukcia.org/?p=352) - Something interesting is happening in the USA, even the American right is starting to have a debate about drug law reform.
- [MSers new medicine - Sativex.](https://ukcia.org/?p=361) - A couple of weeks ago Sativex finally got its licence and is now a fully approved medicine which can be prescribed to MS sufferers - "MSers" as they like to be known. As it happens, in real life I spend a lot of my time huddled over hot computer screens editing videos and because of
- [The government wants your opinions - and the Home Office finally coughs up its secrets.](https://ukcia.org/?p=376) - In the Restoring civil liberties section it's interesting, not to say pleasing, to see that one of the most popular ideas is cannabis law reform.
- [Early Cannabis Use and Estimated Risk of Later Onset of Depression Spells - yet another "wrong" result!](https://ukcia.org/?p=445) - An interesting study this week from the American Journal of Epidemiology entitled "Early Cannabis Use and Estimated Risk of Later Onset of Depression Spells: Epidemiologic Evidence From the Population-based World Health Organization World Mental Health Survey Initiative" - you can read the paper on the Medscape website (you need to create an account- click here
- [Cannabis and cancer - Another "wrong" result!](https://ukcia.org/?p=394) - ... current knowledge does not suggest that cannabis smoke will have a carcinogenic potential comparable to that resulting from exposure to tobacco smoke.
- [Government consults on the new drugs policy - after deciding what it will be of course.](https://ukcia.org/?p=405) - Ever had the feeling of Déjà vu? The British government has announced it's interested in hearing people's views about the future direction of drugs policy before it launches it's new strategy so you can tell them how good you think it is - it's all a part of David Cameron's "Big Society" idea apparently. Sadly,
- [Global Cannabis Commission Report - The Beckley Foundation ](https://ukcia.org/?p=416) - Another examination of the evidence has come along to yet again challenge the madness of cannabis prohibition, this time from the Beckley Foundation entitled The "Global Cannabis Commission Report"
- [Berlin Hanf Parade - 7th August 2010](https://ukcia.org/?p=424) - It came as a pleasant surprise when, as I was exploring what used to be East Berlin on the first day of my summer holiday this year, I came across the Hanf Museum and learned of the planned "Hanf Parade" due the following weekend. "Hanf" of course is the German word for "Hemp", which perhaps
- [Using medical cannabis in the UK is now possible](https://ukcia.org/?p=470) - Over the past couple of weeks feedback to UKCIA has picked up considerably with people asking if it's possible to obtain and use real cannabis - as opposed to the SATIVEX product - legally in this country. The answer it turns out is "yes".
- [Lord young, real freedom and the BBC.](https://ukcia.org/?p=477) - The coalition government (the "condems" seems to be their unofficial title) have opened a real can of worms by playing the "freedom" card. Lord Young went on Radio 4 last week to announce he wants to "scrap ‘excessive’ safety regulations" in the name of allowing people to take risks which they decide are reasonable and
- [Daily Mail hysteria rides again!](https://ukcia.org/?p=488) - Readers of the Daily Mail have been treated to more than the usual amount of cannabis shock horror stories this week, and the paper has gone into overdrive to misreport things.
- [Tobacco increases the risk of mental illness - another reason to support "Toke Pure".](https://ukcia.org/?p=504) - Tobacco use is the elephant in the room when it comes to drugs policy.
- [Medical cannabis confusion after Home Office "mistake" ](https://ukcia.org/?p=513) - The fact that people from (at least) Belgium and Holland can bring herbal cannabis into this country and use it quite legally is not in dispute and this alone raises some interesting problems for the government
- [The Government on drugs](https://ukcia.org/?p=538) - Prohibition is a policy politicians believe is effective but which is simply not supported by hard evidence of any kind, indeed there is much to show that it is in large part self defeating and causes far greater harm than properly controlled drug markets ever could.
- [The Release Helpline and the BMCR data collection - more problems caused by prohibition.](https://ukcia.org/?p=545) - A theme running through many of the entries in this blog over the past couple of years has been the cod science employed to justify prohibition, the easy to understand desire of the prohibition regime to silence descenting voices and the perceived need by politicians to control the flow of information. The reason for all
- [British Medical Cannabis Register BMCR](https://ukcia.org/?p=557) - I know that something akin to the BMCR is long overdue; as webmaster of this site I have heard many accounts of people using cannabis to relieve pain and to ease a wide range of conditions.
- [Dirty political tricks and the membership of the ACMD](https://ukcia.org/?p=564) - Welcome to the new dark ages.
- [2010 drugs strategy - forcing people to live a drug free life (but not alcohol)](https://ukcia.org/?p=573) - This week saw the introduction of the 2010 drugs strategy; anyone hoping for a significant change of direction from the prohibition regime will be disappointed but not surprised.
- [The problem is politicians, not drugs.](https://ukcia.org/?p=594) - Ex-Home Office Minister spills the beans about UK drugs policy and is shouted down by all the party leaders, now whoever would have expected that to happen?
- [How drugs work - cannabis: A crtique](https://ukcia.org/?p=602) - Better than some of the rubbish we've seen maybe, but still a long way from being good.
- [The future of cannabis law reform campaigning reprise: The LCA reborn?](https://ukcia.org/?p=607) - Cannabis has hardly been out of the news at all over the past 10-15 years and yet there is no really high profile law reform campaign in this country. We do have a good and quite effective anti-prohibition campaign in the form of Transform of course, but not really one dedicated to cannabis. It's not
- [What if cannabis cured cancer?](https://ukcia.org/?p=614) - A flurry of excitement this week regarding a film just released entitled "What if cannabis cured cancer". The press release states HOLLYWOOD, October 16, 2010 - Using original and archival footage, the 60 minute documentary presents highly convincing evidence that this forbidden herb has healing properties beyond any other plant on the planet- interacting as
- [Sativex - still a forbidden medicine](https://ukcia.org/?p=622) - The medical impasse exists simply because of the prohibition regime applied to recreational use.
- [BBC 3: "Cannabis - what's the harm?" and The Sun: survey.](https://ukcia.org/?p=626) - Two media outlets not normally associated with presenting a complex view of the world had a go at doing just that this week - BBC 3 and The Sun!
- [BBC 3: Cannabis, what's the harm? - Pt 2; propaganda straight from the government.](https://ukcia.org/?p=642) - It seems they simply don't want to look at the real chaos they've caused, instead hoping to try to convince the public that the problem is people not obeying the prohibition law, rather than accepting that the situation is caused by that law. This programme by the BBC was a part of that deception attempt.
- [UKCIA review of the new CLEAR website](https://ukcia.org/?p=735) - CLEAR is the new cannabis law reform campaign which has grown from the ashes of the old Legalise Cannabis Alliance. This story of how all this came to pass has been covered in this blog with great interest in weeks gone past and now, at last, the new website is online at http://clear-uk.org So how
- [BBC Sussex - skunk panic!](https://ukcia.org/?p=829) - The BBC has been at it again, local radio this time, BBC Sussex. The item was also published on the BBC news website here "Skunk cannabis addiction 'growing' across South East" this could have been a very useful investigation as they went out to buy samples of street cannabis which they then got analysed. What
- [What if cannabis cured cancer - a review of the DVD](https://ukcia.org/?p=649) - Perhaps most importantly it doesn't treat the viewer like a moron with the attention span of an ant, there no annoying "yoof" presentation, no stupid camera techniques, this is an intelligent presentation.
- [The NewLCA! A gearshift change is happening](https://ukcia.org/?p=651) - I am more hopeful than ever before that the "NewLCA" will make a breakthrough and move the cannabis law reform debate up a gear. At last, it looks set become something that can be taken seriously.
- [David Cameron shows his ignorance about cannabis](https://ukcia.org/?p=657) - Democracy is a great idea, but the problem is it gives us politicians who can be the most dishonest peddlers of misinformation on the planet. David Cameron showed just how badly politicians can mislead when he answered a question about cannabis law reform this week. First of all, a reality check; In what now seems
- [Cannabis psychosis - more reefer madness or not?](https://ukcia.org/?p=673) - The Today programme on Radio 4 is hardly to be compared with the lower reaches of the gutter press - like the Daily Mail for example - but this morning's report about a new study went some way to bridging that gap.
- [The unknown unknowns; what and why they are.](https://ukcia.org/?p=679) - There is no excuse for a policy that actually increases the amount of ignorance concerning the issue it claims to want to address, but that is what prohibition is designed to do.
- ["Skunk" is not "genetically engineered"](https://ukcia.org/?p=697) - A few weeks ago this blog carried a critique of a BBC programme about cannabis called "How drugs work" - read it here. The programme contained a misleading and wrong claim: Skunk is the name given to genetically engineered weed designed to deliver the maximum does of mind altering THC This is going further than
- [The Home Office blog experiment finishes.](https://ukcia.org/?p=703) - The Home Office has just come to the end of its two week attempt at involving people in the drugs policy by way of a blog, which hopefully will be left online here. To be fair unlike the American Drug Tsar blog it was at least open to comments - albeit highly moderated to keep
- [LCA RIP - the future is, apparently, CLEAR](https://ukcia.org/?p=715) - What has happened with the Legalise Cannabis Alliance over the past couple of months can only be described as a coup - in many ways a welcome coup, but a coup non the less. This blog first reported something was brewing back in January Peter Reynolds is a new name on the law reform scene;
- [Every home a prison?](https://ukcia.org/?p=721) - Prohibition is failing. OK, you might expect a blog like this to come out with a statement like that, after all the creeping anarchy and state repression created by prohibition is the main reason sites like this exist. What might not be quite so expected is that prohibition supporters also think prohibition is failing. Despite
- [Cocainish review](https://ukcia.org/?p=727) - This is the way prohibition works; a problem is created by the regime the drug exists under and this problem is used as a reason to continue the prohibition. We're just about to see an example of this in action. "Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money" is a
- [Does cannabis make you mad?](https://ukcia.org/?p=744) - Treating those you claim to want to help as criminals is, well, simply mad.
- [Prohibition campaigners are getting rattled](https://ukcia.org/?p=755) - The prohibition supporting drug warriors are getting rattled by the emerging evidence that decriminalisation produces better results than hard line prohibition. Chief among those fighting the prohibition corner is Kathy Gyngell who writes a blog for the right-wing "Centre for policy studies" or CPS. Quite why the CPS allows her to do this is a
- [Critique - Fags 'n' hash - a wasted opportunity.](https://ukcia.org/?p=760) - As regards this leaflet, it's worth 2/10 and half a cheer at best.
- [Four days, two wooden spoons and one jewel in the mud.](https://ukcia.org/?p=792) - In just one week - actually just four days - we've had two of the best drug war madness quotes of all time
- [Charles Walker MP - More skunk madness from Mary Brett.](https://ukcia.org/?p=802) - The prohibitionists hype was trotted out again last week by yet another Tory MP; Charles Walker MP for Broxbourne in Hertfordshire
- [Sentencing Council, Drug Offences Guidelines. UKCIA response To Public Consultation.](https://ukcia.org/?p=812) - UKCIA submitted the following comments to the Sentencing Council proposals for drug offences guidelines (document here) [contact address, phone number] I am the editor / webmaster of http://www.ukcia.org, a cannabis law reform website dedicated to factual information about cannabis, the aim of UKCIA is to challenge the legitimacy of prohibition as a policy through the
- [Critique: Are you on drugs?](https://ukcia.org/?p=816) - The best is left to last though. The final drug we're warned about is - go on, guess. You'll never guess...
- [Press Complaints Commission - is there any point?](https://ukcia.org/?p=837) - The Press Complaints Commission a toothless watchdog and as such is effectively is on the side of the media, not the readers.
- [How weak can an argument be, yet still be taken seriously?](https://ukcia.org/?p=840) - David Raynes starts off with absolutely no sense of irony by referring to the comments made by Nadine Dorries on "Any Questions" the other day
- [Tokepure - a campaign whose time has come](https://ukcia.org/?p=843) - TokePure on CLEAR - click here A campaign to get cannabis users to stop smoking tobacco is the biggest and simplest harm reduction campaign the government could and should be running. This is an issue that affects millions of mostly young people. In all honesty, tobacco use is by far and away the biggest danger
- [Amy Winehouse / Liverpool Echo. Good reasons to change the UK drugs laws](https://ukcia.org/?p=851) - Yesterday saw the death of a young woman who can only be described as a problem drug user, the fact that this young woman was famous probably didn't help but what happened is a story depressingly familiar to many of us. The young woman in question of course was Amy Winehouse, famous as a singer
- [The Daily Mail sinks to a new low](https://ukcia.org/?p=856) - The Daily Mail can, when it wants to, publish good objective stories factually reporting events related to drugs - honest, it can and it's done it on several occasions over the years. This week, however, the paper hit a particularly low point in an item written by Amanda Platell regarding the death of Amy Winehouse
- [Guardian joins in the GM reefer madness](https://ukcia.org/?p=871) - The fact that the Guardian reprinted this nasty example of Le Monde police propaganda as a news story without any critical analysis can only be seen as an attempt to undermine the growing law reform movement bother here and in France.
- [Dubious information from the NHS, but a big change is afoot](https://ukcia.org/?p=900) - Two interesting follow ups to last weeks blog concerning the health advice issued by the Dept of health regarding drugs. The first came from a reader who pointed me to the website run by the NHS: The effects of drugs which has this to say about cannabis: Cannabis can cause anxiety, paranoia and loss of
- [Asking the government to support Toke Pure](https://ukcia.org/?p=911) - Writing to the government about cannabis policy is a very depressing pass-time really, if you get a reply at all it's usually a variation of the standard letter they send out to everyone. Actually, most of the time unless you write to your own MP letters to ministers are often simply ignored, you are only
- [Study finds Cannabis isn't all that dangerous,  but why is it a secret?](https://ukcia.org/?p=918) - David Nutt, the professor famously sacked by the last Labour government for undermining the official policy toward cannabis by telling the truth has just issued another interesting study called "Popular intoxicants: what lessons can be learned from the last 40 years of alcohol and cannabis regulation?" which can be read here on the website of
- [COMT; another "wrong" result for the reefer madness hype.](https://ukcia.org/?p=924) - One of the great “reefer madness V2.0″ claims has been dealt a serious blow this week, probably enough to kill it off altogether with luck. To read the comment from the study which put the knife in though, you would never guess. In the abstract to a paper called “Cannabis, COMT and psychotic experiences” (abstract
- [Stupid, scared of the Daily Mail or corrupt?](https://ukcia.org/?p=931) - Either governments are composed of utter idiots, or they are corrupt and following an agenda for some unstated reason.
- [October 2011 - Frank Reborn](https://ukcia.org/?p=946) - Talk to Frank, the government's anti-drug advertising campaign has been updated
- [PCC Complaint about a Guardian article, August 16th 2011 - Result!](https://ukcia.org/?p=957) - A small victory, admittedly against the Guardian which should know better than to write the sort of rubbish they did back in August. Read the original complaint here The article has been amended to remove all reference to "genetic modification" (including by changing the headline) and to correct a few other errors. The following footnote
- [Daily Mail does it again - Just say "NO"](https://ukcia.org/?p=963) - The biggest argument against protecting the freedom of the press in the UK can be summed up in two words: "Daily Mail". Now, it must be said from the start that the Daily Mail is capable of fair and objective reporting regarding many things even including cannabis. Indeed there have been a number of instances
- [Reefer madness returns?](https://ukcia.org/?p=976) - Let me make something very clear, I do not think RETHINK, the mental health charity, are some kind of prohibition front organisation. I do believe they are well meaning and motivated by the best of intentions. But I have to say I do think they are quite inept at what they do. It was RETHINK
- [Toke Pure - another reply from Anne Milton at the Dept of Health.](https://ukcia.org/?p=985) - Continuing the exchange between myself and Anne Milton at the department of health regarding asking the Government to run a campaign similar to Toke pure, designed to encourage cannabis users not to smoke tobacco along with their cannabis. You can read the previous exchanges here. It's important to remember when reading this reply that I
- [Complaint to the PCC re The Daily Mail October 30th - Update of sorts](https://ukcia.org/?p=996) - Almost three weeks ago now I submitted a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) concerning the work of pure fiction published by the Daily Mail which claimed a study undertaken by Bristol University found the strongest evidence to date that cannabis “brings on” schizophrenia. In fact the study showed no such thing and didn't
- [The cause of Reefer Madness V2? (and no, it's not skunk)](https://ukcia.org/?p=1006) - Now the thing is given its reputation I don't expect the claim that the Daily Mail deliberately publishes distorted and misleading information to come as a great surprise to that many people
- [The Daily Mail Reefer Madness Archive](https://ukcia.org/?p=1057) - Originally published on CLEAR, this is a collection of stories published by the Daily Mail about cannabis. It is a summary of 10 years of inaccurate, misleading and distorted information about cannabis in which the Daily Mail has deliberately confused comment, conjecture and fact in its systematic campaign against cannabis and cannabis users. Its efforts
- [The Lancet: Three papers worth a read.](https://ukcia.org/?p=1063) - Three interesting articles in the Lancet (the doctors mag) this week. Interesting because they take a hard look at the present drug laws just as the Home Affairs Committee is about to start its investigation into UK drug laws. You can see the three papers here, you do need to register but it's free Extent
- [The Lancet: Three papers worth a read Pt2: Drug policy and the public good: evidence for effective interventions](https://ukcia.org/?p=1071) - This paper is hardly a ringing endorsement of the present policy,
- [The Lancet: Three papers worth a read Pt3: How well do international drug conventions protect public health?](https://ukcia.org/?p=1083) - As the Home Affairs Select Committee enquiry into the drug laws gets underway we look at the third and final paper from the Lancet Trilogy which looks at the only aspect that really matters; how well has it all worked? How well do international drug conventions protect public health? There are many issues around raised by
- [Toke Pure - More Ann Milton madness](https://ukcia.org/?p=1091) - I'm not an anarchist, but I'll be honest I'm one of these people who have very little respect left for politicians. It wasn't always so, for most of my life from late teens to late 40's I was always a member of a mainstream political party, I was one of those people who would trudge
- [Reply to Anne Milton re Tokepure - Safer Use Campaign](https://ukcia.org/?p=1097) - A follow-up to the previous blog regarding the reply from Anne Milton at the Dep of Health to my request that the government run a campaign similar to TokePure, designed to advise cannabis consumers not to smoke tobacco. You can see the amazingly stupid reply I had from the minister here - there is no other way to
- [The End of Another Perfect Year: 2011 Review Pt3 June - October](https://ukcia.org/?p=1028) - Part 1 Part 2 Continuing the review of 2011. Once the germinating season when we need rain was over, the drought ended, but it was too late for my beans. June saw a couple of real howlers, the first from MP Nadine Dorries - quite how this person managed to get elected is beyond comprehension.
- [The End of Another Perfect Year: 2011 Review Pt 4 October - December](https://ukcia.org/?p=1038) - Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 And so as the winter nights drew in and we all got ready for the big chill, we had a heat wave, which made all the weeds grow in the part of the allotment I'd already cleared. Back in mid September it had been a hectic time for CLEAR
- [The end of yet another perfect year: 2011 review (Pt1 January - March)](https://ukcia.org/?p=1018) - Yet another year is about to come to an end and the outlook for the world, we are told, is dark indeed. We face a recession worse than anything in living memory; we are, apparently, broke. All of us face cuts in living standards, the threat of mass unemployment hangs over those of us still
- [End of another perfect year: 2011 Review (Pt2 April - June)](https://ukcia.org/?p=1021) - Part 1 April is my favourite time of the year, it's the end of the dark winter days and it starts to get warmer. This year it did things in style sadly and the ensuing drought played havoc with the crops planted on my allotment, but the sunshine was nice and put me in a
- [Ex-president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, addressing the CATO institute](https://ukcia.org/?p=954) - Mexico is on the front line of the war on drugs right now, it's on the route between the suppliers and the worlds biggest consumer of prohibited drugs, the home of prohibition, the USA. Earlier in the week a message arrived at UKCIA from a reader pointing to a video of the ex-president of Mexico,
- [Alienated youth, click-bangs in Liverpool and the LibDems smell the coffee.](https://ukcia.org/?p=868) - No-one is claiming the cannabis laws caused the riot in London on Saturday night (pictures from the Guardian) but something was clearly apparent from the events that unfolded; there is a lot of resentment of the police from sections of young people of that part of London. The over use of stop-search is probably a
- [Dutch Coffeeshops to stay open?](https://ukcia.org/?p=832) - it's looking like all those people who were worrying about their next holiday to The Dam can start making their plans again. Fingers crossed.
- [What an amazing week!](https://ukcia.org/?p=772) - What an exciting week it has been for the drug law reform movement. If you've been away with the fairies for the past few days, you will have missed the Global commission report when former Presidents of Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Switzerland, Prime Minister of Greece, Kofi Annan, Richard Branson, George Shultz, Paul Volcker and
- [Off topic maybe, but the AV referendum is important](https://ukcia.org/?p=729) - UKCIA is a single issue cannabis law reform site, so why is it carrying an advert for the "Vote yes to fairer votes" campaign? This is a first. In the past for as long as I've run UKCIA the site has been very clear that it has only one agenda which is cannabis law reform.
- [Scumoween free party speakeasy](https://ukcia.org/?p=524) - Last weekend "Scumoween: The Squat Monster's Ball" blew it all out of the water. The modern equivalent of a speakeasy is, of course, an illegal rave and this one, despite all the laws put in place over the last 10 or more years took place right in the heart of London and the was nothing the police could do to stop it.
- [Plain language in scientific studies](https://ukcia.org/?p=465) - One of the biggest obstacles to understanding scientific papers is the language they are written in, on occasions the suspicion is that bad studies are deliberately obscured by the use of an elitist language masquerading as a formal intellectual style of presentation. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in the cannabis / mental health
- [Unstoppable force meets immovable object: Reality Vs drugs policy](https://ukcia.org/?p=457) - Something is going to have to happen, the present situation is too much like an unstoppable force hitting an immovable object, a situation nature just will not allow.
- [Digital cannabis shock horror](https://ukcia.org/?p=385) - The result was interesting indeed and - in my experience - it certainly sort of worked.
- [UKCIA site hacked 12th May](https://ukcia.org/?p=316) - For the second time in as many weeks UKCIA was hit by a hacker attack yesterday (Wednesday 12th). This was a widespread attack which seems to have targeted Wordpress blogs such as this one on several hosts. UKCIA is hosted by US based Godaddy which seems to have suffered more than most from this attack
- [Election time again - whoopee, but don't mention "drugs"](https://ukcia.org/?p=276) - It's general election time again, let's try not to get too excited now! Drugs, and what to do about them, haven't featured in the campaign as of yet and it's highly unlikely they will, a debate on this subject is something the politicians absolutely do not want us to have. This despite the fact that
- [Cocaine, rehab and the long nose of the law](https://ukcia.org/?p=248) - Three illustrations of the workings of the UK drugs policy this week, each very different yet all indicative of the dire state UK drugs policy is in.
- [How ideology shapes the evidence - a discussion paper.](https://ukcia.org/?p=219) - All in all this paper is an interesting contribution to the debate about cannabis, although spoiled by a demonstrable lack of real world experience and an over willingness to use evidence that doesn't exist concerning the harms related to smoking pure cannabis to justify the case for prevention.
- [The stranglehold the psycho-pharms?](https://ukcia.org/?p=210) - It is odd, to say the least, to see people so utterly opposed to the aims of law reform making precisely the same arguments. Something very, very odd is going on.
- [Prohibition - from the "when in a hole dig faster" school of problem solving. ](https://ukcia.org/?p=205) - So why is cannabis illegal? This is a really simple question which should be easy to answer, but it's not really.
- [The politics of arrogance, faith and denial](https://ukcia.org/?p=170) - Did Home Secretary Alan Johnson realise the can of worms he was opening when he sacked Professor Nutt?
- [The end of yet another decade](https://ukcia.org/?p=143) - For those of us who still, deep down, think of the year 2000 as being recent it's sobering to think that not only is that almost it for not only another year, but another decade as well. Yes, the turn of the century was a decade ago and the naughties are almost over. It's interesting,
- [The dangers of cannabis: High-potency cannabis and the risk of psychosis Vs contamination](https://ukcia.org/?p=117) - Anyone who is seriously concerned about the health risks posed by cannabis would be outraged at the "unintended" - but quite predictable - effects of prohibition, it's what happens when you gift a massively profitable industry to uncontrollable organised crime. The are legitimate concerns about the nature of so-called "skunk" cannabis in terms of its THC/CBD content and also the degree of contamination of street samples.
- [Foxes, henhouses and cans of worms.](https://ukcia.org/?p=99) - Drugs policy; what are its aims and purpose?
- [Party time in Berlin; repression is great when it stops.](https://ukcia.org/?p=94) - The reason Prof Nutt was sacked last week was made pretty clear by Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary; we can't have people questioning the workings of the drug laws by spreading knowledge of the truth. He knows that as soon as the debate about drugs is opened up, the whole regime of prohibition will come
- [Cannabis classification, a pointless issue that just isn't going to go away.](https://ukcia.org/?p=92) - Now lets be quite clear: Cannabis isn't a controlled drug because it's illegal, I'm sure this blog has mentioned that before once or twice. The problem with cannabis in the real world is that fact that although illegal, millions of people use it and a massive unrestrained, unregulated uncontrolled illegal trade funds organised crime as
- [Rewriting the English language and a criminalised approach to medication](https://ukcia.org/?p=86) - 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
- ["C" for reform](https://ukcia.org/?p=84) - 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,
- [Alcohol and drugs](https://ukcia.org/?p=81) - 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
- [Drug policy - between a rock and a hard place](https://ukcia.org/?p=79) - Once apon a time there was a drugs policy which seemed simple: Drugs would be "controlled" by law, that is the law would forbid their use and this would protect everyone from the dangers such drugs were predicted to have. Now of course this was a new idea - in that it had never really
- [Ten years after](https://ukcia.org/?p=63) - 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
- [The first casualty of war](https://ukcia.org/?p=61) - 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
- [Talk to frank - sight impaired access problems.](https://ukcia.org/?p=57) - 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
- [Drugs policy descends (further) into farce](https://ukcia.org/?p=54) - This was the week British drugs policy finally dropped any pretence of being evidence based and officially became an issue of political posturing, of "sending out messages" and of basing laws on what Mr Brown's government thinks is "unacceptable". The government's advisory body the ACMD produced a report - based on studying a mass of
- [Libdem MP Tom Brake - one reason not to vote Libdem.](https://ukcia.org/?p=23) - Politicians are probably the reason most people don't vote. They have a very bad reputation which is well deserved and no-where is this more apparent than when politicians talk about drugs. Whereas most people who try drugs enjoy them - even if they don't end as hopeless addicts - the politicians who dabble almost never
- [The Australian - Powers granted to target heroin (30 years ago)](https://ukcia.org/?p=46) - Welcome to 2009, it had to happen some day. After the excess of the Christmas and New Year festivities, it was almost a pleasure to return to work on January 2nd, to turn on my office computer and download the pile of e-mails awaiting my attention. Amongst which were several from "Daily Dose", a newsfeed
- [America - the end of an era?](https://ukcia.org/?p=45) - The end of the year brings with it the end of perhaps one of the most ideologically driven regimes in America's history. The two-term presidency of George W Bush won't go down in history as a period of great enlightenment and social justice - or frankly for much else to be proud of either and
- [Class B cometh, but with legal medicine?](https://ukcia.org/?p=43) - The headline to comment on this week and that was the House of Lords vote to support the reclassification of cannabis to class B and what it means for drugs policy in this country. At the risk of sounding a bit like a stuck record it is worth pointing out that the move to class
- [The future of the cannabis trade: less control, less harm reduction.](https://ukcia.org/?p=42) - There's a mood of paranoia - or at least concern - sweeping the "Alternative Trade Association" (ATA) of late. If you've never heard of the ATA, it's an umbrella group that represents what used to be called "Head Shops", some of these have existed quietly in backstreets of towns and cities up and down the
- [Class A drug seizures plummet as cannabis becomes the highest enforcement priority](https://ukcia.org/?p=37) - Early this week we heard an interesting news story from SOCA - the Serious and Organised Crime Agency - concerning cocaine purity. Apparently cheaper deals of cocaine - which are now becoming popular on the mass market we're told - contain as little as 10% cocaine. Not only that, but it's being cut with a
- [Upgrading falls flat, more reefer madness and a posh lady snorts.](https://ukcia.org/?p=35) - As the media has been distracted for yet another week with the problems of the stock market it' s been business as normal on the cannabis front. The week started with the government trying to look tough and failing badly, the Daily Mail had another go at a reefer madness story and the Times came
- [Sending a message the Class B way](https://ukcia.org/?p=34) - Despite being advised by their own experts not to do it, the government today outlined its determination to “get tough” with cannabis users, to “send a message” and to make it clear that it is determined cannabis will remain an uncontrolled illegal drug. So it was the Jacqui Smith announced the stiff new laws they
- [Welcome home DJ Grooverider](https://ukcia.org/?p=33) - If you didn't know - and the chances are very good you don't because it wasn't widely reported - Radio 1's DJ Grooverider (real name Raymond Bingham) has been released from prison in Dubia after being pardoned by the royal family. If you still don't know what all this is about, let's rewind to earlier
- [Drug harms and the dodgy science of prohibiton](https://ukcia.org/?p=31) - More "what to do about drugs" confusion this week, perhaps we're getting closer to the collapse of the present system than some are prepared to admit. It's regrading time again, having just been through that debacle with cannabis it's time for another go. At the heart of the confusion this time is what to do
- [New EU drug policy; more of the same.](https://ukcia.org/?p=30) - What a week, the long awaited collapse of capitalism finally happened and Babylon has fallen! Well, maybe. But there's no doubt we're all a lot poorer than we were this time last week and belts are going to have to be tightened. The question is, which projects will feel the sharp end of the axe?
- [Mr Brown on youtube, booze, fags and cannabis.](https://ukcia.org/?p=28) - More cannabis stuff from Gordon Brown on youtube last week. Gordon provides a question and answer service entitled "Ask the PM" - no doubt in a bid to counter his rival's use of the new medium, to try to appear modern and to reach out to the young people out there.The question, which was really
- [What drugscope tried not to say about its Mother's Little Helper.](https://ukcia.org/?p=27) - What would happen, do you think, if THE respected organisation in the country which advises the government on drugs policy were to warn that THE key aim of prohibition - reducing the availability of illegal drugs - was counter productive in that it caused a shift of drug use to more dangerous substances and resulted
- [Coaker's line on the BBC](https://ukcia.org/?p=26) - The "softening up" process leading up to reclassification of cannabis to class B has started. The BBC played its usual role of government messenger again, this time with a programme broadcast on the digital station 1xtra last week entitled "Home Grown" supported by a website page, the documentary is online here for the next few
- [Cannabis use down, class A use up and it's all "pointless".](https://ukcia.org/?p=24) - Oh dear, another bad week for the defenders of prohibition. First someone who worked in a senior position in the government anti drug unit spills the beans, then the latest drug use figures came out. First, of course, it was Julian Critchley who did the bean spilling which even the Daily Mail managed to report
- [The press, recovery, prison and politicians, all in one week.](https://ukcia.org/?p=18) - The Daily Mail, never a paper to let the truth get in the way of a good story at the best of times, really went to town this week by exposing a new threat posed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The rag reported on Thursday that the good old RAF had helped protect this country
- [Two more bits of cannabis / brain research and the story of Gazza.](https://ukcia.org/?p=17) - Tin hats on again; the Daily Mail had a cannabis news story to crow about this week Teenage cannabis smokers face bigger risk of full-blown mental illness in later life Teenage cannabis users are more likely to suffer psychotic symptoms that raise the risk of full-blown mental illness in later life, claim researchers. and Their
- [Recovery, harm reduction or just better regulation?](https://ukcia.org/?p=16) - Two developments this week on the "what to do about drug addiction" front, one about problematic use of illegal drugs, and one about a legal drug. The two responses couldn't be more different. Not only that, but we've got a new buzz word on the illegal drug front: "Recovery". Ah yes, of course, everyone wants
- [A review of drug harms?](https://ukcia.org/?p=15) - Mankind has had getting on for 5 thousand years of recorded experience of cannabis. OK, maybe not here in the UK, but certainly in many cultures around the world. There is, or was before prohibition was imposed on these cultures and did its best to eradicate it, a wealth of social knowledge about its effects
- [Drugs, our community, your say - the consultation con](https://ukcia.org/?p=13) - Who remembers the consultation the government ran on the future of its drugs policy? The so-called "consultation" was roundly criticised by amongst others, the House of Lords, as Transform reported back in November and again in December. The whole exercise was widely seen as a sham for the frankly dodgy way statistics were presented and
- [Brown Wednesday](https://ukcia.org/?p=12) - The number 10 website had this gem on it today: Morning press briefing from 6 May 2008 The Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) began by telling the assembled press that the official Cabinet had met for about an hour this morning. There was a further discussion on the draft legislative programme and there was also a
- [Unacceptable, lethal and Brown](https://ukcia.org/?p=11) - The issue of cannabis reclassification is bubbling away nicely now. The ACMD has given its report to Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, and it's been widely leaked as recommending cannabis stays in class C, but Gordon is having non of it; cannabis, he said on GMTV, is "unacceptable" because it's "lethal". Now we all know
- [ The All Party Parliamentary Group on Cannabis and Children - and Brown stuff](https://ukcia.org/?p=10) - Gordon Brown, the prime minister, is showing himself to be a walking disaster area with a whole series of what can only be described as "cock-ups" of late. Well, here's another one: Cannabis Reclassification. This blog has already mentioned the upcoming review of the classification of cannabis under the Misuse of Drugs Act (To B
- [A free press?](https://ukcia.org/?p=8) - Perhaps the best indicator of a truly free press is investigative reporting that questions official statements and looks beyond the symptoms to the root causes of problems. Sadly, that isn't something we have in abundance in the UK where our many papers are in fact almost all owned by a handful of companies and seem

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