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Nurse with a sign saying 'Addiction? Can we help?
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Thanks for not prosecuting stoners, but we don’t need treatment

By Chris Bovey Last month the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) gave the green light to their officers to let off cannabis consumers and suggest they get treatment instead of punishment. Well, thank you very much, for not punishing…
Safe Injecting Room for drug addicts.
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HIV rates of homeless Scottish drug addicts soar

Despite evidence that safe injecting rooms prevent the spread of HIV and reduce overdose rates, the UK government repeatedly refuses to allow them. This is another bonkers policy where conservatism flies in the face of reality. Scottish…
Doctor with a microscope in a medical cannabis laboratory

Medical cannabis research stopped by paranoid authorities

By Richard Shrubb We all know that doctors hide behind science to bullshit you on medicinal cannabis. Here’s something to fire back at them. One of the reasons that medical cannabis isn’t being used as widely in the UK as it might…
Cannabis terrorist Lord Alan West of Spithead
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Lord Alan West of Spithead - a fighting sailor and no weed expert

By Richard Shrubb As you will see in the video, earlier this week Lord West of Spithead spouted off about how terrorists are all stoned off their bollocks on skunk cannabis and therefore cannabis shouldn’t be used as a medicine. Looking…
EU flag with chemtrails.
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Brexit will stop chemtrails over the UK

By Chris Bovey The level of ignorance amongst Brexit voters never ceases to outstand me with their ill-informed opinions about the workings of the EU. On one side I hear people calling it a communist dictatorship, on the other they say…
Cannabis does not cause psychosis.

There is no link between psychosis and cannabis

By Richard Shrubb One of the hardest hitting arguments against cannabis is that it ‘causes psychosis’. It doesn’t - researchers have been looking for links for nearly 90 years and has found no link at all. When you see some mad politician,…
Flag of Trinidad and Tobago with a cannabis leaf on it.

Trinidad and Tobago latest country to review cannabis laws

By Chris Bovey Trinidad and Tobago is to be the latest country to knock down the dominoes of prohibition by announcing it intends to review its cannabis laws. Last year Canada followed the lead of Uruguay and a number of US states by legalising…
National lottery pic for Facebook
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The Great British Cannabis Postal Code Lottery

By Richard Shrubb The postcode lottery of police attitudes to cannabis means that you’re four times more likely to be prosecuted for possession in Nottinghamshire than if the police find you with it in Surrey. Careful with that weed in…
Used injection needles of heroin addicts.
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Government shoots itself in the foot with drug laws again.

By Richard Shrubb The government’s corrupt, silly stance on drug use has been shown up again with Victoria Atkins, the Minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability, deciding that safe injecting rooms (SIRs) should still be banned…
Cannabis factory police bust UK
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The War on Drugs has failed - yet the Chief Drug Dealer continues to prosecute?

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…
Drax Power Station in Yorkshire
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Hemp, an energy crop four times as productive as trees per acre

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…
Alfie Dingley outside No 10 Downing Street.
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The Tories are NOT legalising cannabis

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.…