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…

By Trev Coleman There are times, when the stars align, fate intersects and blatantly obvious answers reveal themselves in a blinding flash of inspiration that sets the universe right. Then, there are times when all of that happens and you end up wanting to bang your head against the wall because of the utter lack…

By Richard Shrubb Considering in our estimates it took 55 hours of frontline police time to bust a woman with a gramme of cannabis, the answer to the lightbulb question is going to be very high indeed: Planning operation: 5 hours Admin staff calling in the fire brigade for a ladder: 2 hours + paperwork…

By Chris Bovey Brighton’s annual Green Pride Protestival attracted the largest number of people since the event’s conception five years ago. Roughly five-thousand people turned up to Preston Park to protest against the UK’s draconian cannabis laws and to openly flout the law by consuming cannabis, despite the presence of the local police. The weather…

By Richard Shrubb This week’s news that cannabis should be rescheduled to Schedule 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Act may have cheered a few people who didn’t quite understand what’s going on. One place that the Krug corks are popping will be 10 Downing Street as Philip and Theresa May celebrate having even more…

By Chris Bovey GREEN PRIDE – the annual cannabis protestival held in Brighton is preparing for its fifth and biggest event since its inception. Last year, the event attracted over 3,500 people openly breaking the law by consuming cannabis in public, as a peaceful protest against the country’s archaic and unjust cannabis laws, as well…

By Chris Bovey There has been a lot of media coverage in recent weeks about medicinal cannabis, in particular, focussing on two young boys who have a rare form of epilepsy, which only a cannabis-based medicine can treat and prevent seizures. Both Alfie Dingley, from Kenilworth, Warwickshire and Billy Caldwell, from Northern Ireland, suffer a…

By Richard Shrubb I’m going to call the Conservative Party something a bit rude now. They are a bunch of child murdering hypocrites. Let’s look at why this is the case. If the government is so convinced that cannabis is so dangerous, why have so many MPs got their snouts in medical marijuana investments? While…