By Jeff Ditchfield Any sensible person has to admit that the ‘War on Drugs’ is, in reality, a war on people and as any student of history knows, the first victim in any war is the “truth”.  I feel I have to address this week’s Sunday Mail Article. During a recent visit to Chester, Jannette Jj Clements,…

By Chris Bovey A 70-year-old burglary victim has been taken to Court and must pay a total of £105 for growing his own cannabis to alleviate pain from sciatica and arthritis, conditions where it is well-documented cannabis can help. Granddad, Malcolm Voce, who had never been in trouble before in his life was prosecuted when…

By Chris Bovey A paedophile trainee cop found with over 500 pictures of child sexual abuse of the worst kind has been spared gaol, after Judge Paul Lawton said it would be a drain of resources. Only recently, Feed The Birds, reported how Judge Robert Altram had sent three anti-fracking protesters to prison for up…

By Richard Shrubb In this topsy-turvy world, we see a lot of bonkers court rulings that seem to be politically motivated rather than based on real harm. It now appears that you will walk free if you possess images of children being sexually abused yet if you use cannabis as a medicine you will be…

By Trev Coleman Three environmental activists received jail sentences from Judge Robert Altham for a peaceful anti-fracking protest this week in Lancashire. Simon Roscoe Blevins, 26, and Richard Roberts, 36, were given 16 months in prison and Richard Loizou, 31, got 15 months on Wednesday after being convicted of causing a public nuisance by a…

By Richard Shrubb Cash-strappedWest Midlands Police have been slammed for advertising a Halloween night’s stay in their Steelhouse Lane cells in Birmingham for £75 a night. To a skint bobby that may seem a lot of money for a night’s stay – to the rest of the public, it seems tasteless. Here’s a real nightmare for…

By Richard Shrubb South Yorkshire Police (SYP) it seems need to train their doggies as to what weed exactly gets them their ball. Last week SYP proudly announced they had busted a man for what appears to be a bag of tree cuttings as part of their Operation Sceptre knife crime crackdown. Police dog training…

By Chris Bovey Devon and Cornwall are set to become an increasing point of contention between London and Brussels during Brexit negotiations as demands grow from the French to take back the southwestern peninsula after geologists discovered it is part of France. Researchers at the University of Plymouth have discovered that Britain was formed 400…

By Richard Shrubb Losing the streets? Why flush the sewers? Earlier this week a senior policeman told a national newspaper that the police are very close to ‘losing the streets’ due to national funding cuts. At the first annual NORML UK conference in 2013 a recently retired Chief Constable referred to drugs raids as ‘flushing…

By Richard Shrubb There’s a saying that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing time and again and to expect different results. The War on Drugs has been going on since alcohol was legalised in the US, and all it really does is criminalise otherwise law-abiding people while failing repeatedly and utterly…