By Clark French Here in the UK, we seem to be very behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to the level to which cannabis has become accepted, not just as a recreational past time, but as a safe and effective treatment for a whole range of serious illnesses. It would be much quicker to […]
By Richard Shrubb In an ideal world, on the 20th March 2012 the Daily Mail should have raved CANNABIS TREATS SCHIZOPHRENIA. It didn’t. We know that the Daily Mail believes cannabis is worse than heroin and has no therapeutic benefits whatsoever! On that day a study was published in The Journal of Translational Psychiatry that […]
By Des Humphrey I am not about to tell you all how to suck eggs here, but when I recently asked a number of cannabis consumers if they knew the difference between the types of cannabis that are out there today, 80% of them did not have a clue. Many British cannabis consumers think there […]
Russell Brand says abstinence-only programmes are the only way to deal with addiction.
By Richard Shrubb NORML recently posted a link to a blog on Facebook. The blog in question suggested that cannabis can be beneficial to bipolar disorder. On one line of thinking this is very interesting – cannabis is a nice sedative, and I have seen studies that show it can actually be good at treating […]
By Darryl Bickler, solicitor, Drug Equality Alliance NOWADAYS there is willingness for the medical use of cannabis to be on the debating table in the media and even the BBC. People nowadays talk about regulation of some drugs (actually they mean the users of some drugs) as a possible way of reducing harms and attendant costs. […]
NORML UK have teamed up with THTC to bring you ethically produced organic cotton t-shirts, with the THTC and NORML logos, with our slogan, ‘working to reform cannabis laws’. Since 1999 THTC has been producing collaboration ranges for nearly one hundred charities, music labels, bands, artists, festivals, clothing labels, causes and activists. Cotton is one of […]
by Jeff Ditchfield Cancer free! This is the story (in his own words) of one of our cancer suffering friends ——- My name’s Dave, it’s not my real name, I’m a 39 year old married family man with an 8 year old boy and twin girls. I was diagnosed with bowel cancer in August 2008, […]
By Chris Bovey NORML UK are not political, we are not a political party; we are a Pressure Group. The whole point of a Pressure Group is to lobby and put pressure on our elected representatives to change the law. We want our laws on cannabis changed; we have already won the arguments, opinion polls […]
By Alun Buffry CANNABIS THE PLANT It is estimated that about 600 million people in the world use cannabis, 3 to 8 million in Britain. The vast majority of them report benefits to their health and an increased sense of well-being. Few report harm. The evidence from scientists as to the risks associated with cannabis, […]