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 […]
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By Des Humphrey Sun is shining, the weather is sweet yeah, make you wanna move your dancing feet now” – Bob Marley I felt similarly the morning I got ready for my journey to Bath and Bristol. I felt a glow throughout my body, a buzz in the air. First stop: Cardiff, to pick up […]
Continue readingPress Release 28/08/2012 NORML UK call on the British government to introduce a regulated cannabis market, following a New Zealand study which found that young people who smoke cannabis risk a significant and irreversible reduction in IQ. An international team found that those who started using cannabis heavily below the age of 18 - while […]
Continue readingBy 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 […]
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A NORML UK member shares her experiences using cannabis to treat severe adult ADHD I’d like to tell you a little about what it feels like to live with ADHD on a daily basis, and how cannabis helps me cope with my symptoms. I’ve also developed a significant anxiety disorder as well, which is a […]
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Russell Brand says abstinence-only programmes are the only way to deal with addiction.
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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 […]
Continue readingBy 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. […]
Continue readingNORML 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 […]
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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, […]
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