Michelle X of the NORML UK Women’s Alliance and her partner Albert Bloom were last night raided and arrested by Thames Valley Police for the production and possession of cannabis.
Their arrest came shortly before the airing of the Channel 5 show ’37 Years on the Dole’, which featured Michelle’s story of her own use of cannabis to treat Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
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Ever wondered how the UK compares to other countries in terms of domestic cannabis cultivation? The Global Cannabis Cultivation Research Consortium provides some answers in newly published research.
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If you are interested in cannabis, or just drug issues in general in the United Kingdom, you should be familiar with the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). They are a committee formed by the government comprised of experts in the field. The chair of the ACMD says cannabis is no longer an issue for them because the cannabis has become politicised.
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You might have read about the latest outrageous judgement by Judge Bernie Kelly a member of the bench in the United Kingdom. She’s a judge in Derry in Northern Ireland in the event you don’t know, who decided to offer her medical wisdom on the subject of cannabis. It’s become an old story, crotchety old judge hands down ridiculous decision accompanied by a fountain of ignorance on the subject of cannabis.
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As you may or may not have heard there has recently been a major change in the Canadian Medical Marijuana program. The sitting Conservative government has decided that rather than leave Health Canada to grow low-quality medical cannabis in an old mine in Manitoba, that private industry should be licensed to meet the demand. This is a major change of direction for medical cannabis in Canada, and I believe an indication of the shape of the future cannabis market both medical and recreational.
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Dr Faizal Mohammed and the Liverpool Echo claim cannabis is laced with heroin.
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Brighton Pavilion MP’s petition for a review of drug laws reaches 100,000 signatures.
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Bournemouth Echo making misleading claims that cannabis was responsible for a death.
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NORML UK is asking people to complain to the Ombudsman man about Dr Kudair Hussein’s scientifically impossible assertion that cannabis killed mother of three, Gemma Moss.
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The UK media and an incompetent pathologist have been claiming cannabis can kill when the science proves otherwise.
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