We’ve seen a spate of Reefer Madness driven by the Daily Mail in the media over the last few weeks. There’s an election coming up and the Tories are vehemently sticking to anti cannabis rhetoric.
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Tag Archives: Politics
Brave New Marketplace
The global economy is stalled. There is little argument to be made on that subject. While slow recovery is beginning to peak its head out of the detritus of the banking crisis, there is still endemic unemployment and a marked decline in prosperity across the western world.
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Pushing the Camel Through the Needle’s Eye
By James Collins Norman Baker has issued a statement regarding medical cannabis in the UK. You’ve likely read it, if not; here is a reference for you. There was a great deal of hullaballoo in the community about this announcement, but if you missed it here is a link to the Guardian. Okay, now you’re […]
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Social Experiments and What They Have Taught Us – Part 2
Second instalment of Simon Doherty’s blog looking at various tolerant approaches towards cannabis policy around the world.
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Social Experiments and What They Have Taught Us – Part 1
A look at various tolerant approaches towards cannabis policy around the world.
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Activism is Warfare
The great annual 4/20 celebration is over. Congratulations to all the people who stepped out around the globe and joined the chorus of voices that said “Cannabis is okay” for our leaders and oppressors alike to see. Damn fine show people!
You’ve proven once again that the rhetoric about cannabis users being lazy and apathetic, unfit to any unified purpose, is complete bunk. You did a thing en masse, and that took organization and effort.
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The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs Refuses to Advise.
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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London 420 Pro-Cannabis Rally Hyde Park 2014
Do something different this Easter Sunday. Make your way to the London 420 Pro Cannabis Rally in Hyde Park on Sunday 20th April 2014.
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Judge sends ‘slaves’ forced to grow cannabis to prison
A court has sentenced two Vietnamese men caught growing hundreds of cannabis plants in a Portsmouth house to a year in prison each after hearing they were ‘virtually slaves’.
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Cannabis and Corporations: The Future of Weed
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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