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…

By Richard Shrubb West Yorkshire Police jubilantly posted an article on Facebook last week that they’d busted someone for about a joint’s worth of weed. They were a little unamused at the response of the cannabis community and threatened to arrest someone for making a derogatory comment about their prize seizure. Violent crime and sexual…

By Chris Bovey The Conservatives have rejected yet another online cannabis petition on the official government petition website. There have been a number of petitions online petitions asking the government to legalise cannabis or reconsider drugs policy; if they pass over 10,000, the government has to give a response and if they pass 100,000 then they…

By Chris Bovey Since its inception, YouTube has been a popular social media source for cannabis information, with some weed related channels having hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Nobody is really sure what YouTube is actually doing, they’ve never had a problem with cannabis in the past and marijuana-related content has generally stayed up. We…

Council’s application to ban cannabis protest turned down By Chris Bovey Yesterday was 4/20, the annual event where cannabis consumers throughout the world protest to change unjust laws outlawing the plant. The tradition has its roots in the USA, held on 20th April, that being the fourth month of the year. “420” is a common…