When Merseyside Police posted a Facebook video of Matthew Brown, manager of its Cannabis Dismantling Team, listing the problems ’caused’…
The Green Party backs Cannabis Social Clubs and the right to grow your own
By Julyan Levy Most people know what the Green Party of England and Wales stands for: protecting the environment and…
Cannabis prohibition isn’t over until these demands are met
“Governments create nothing and have nothing to give but what they have first taken away — you may put money…
Cannabis and the EU
With the European elections happening today and the Brexit debate raging, it is no secret that the EU has done…
UN guidelines on human rights and drug policy – how does the UK fare?
On 15 March, the Global Partnership on Drug Policies and Development (GPDPD) published International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug…
Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies complains cannabis medicine has ‘opened Pandora’s box’
Dame Sally Davies, England’s Chief Medical Officer, yesterday made the outrageous claim that “we know [THC] has an impact on…
Will Sadiq Khan Follow New York Mayor de Blasio In Calling for Legal Weed?
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio threw his support behind cannabis legalisation at the end of 2018, saying that it…
Major UN report: Punitive drugs policies have failed
Following United Nations (UN) agencies’ decision to adopt common drug policy that endorses decriminalisation of possession and use, the UN…
UN agencies unite in recommending decriminalisation of drug possession and use
The entire United Nations (UN) family of agencies has for the first time adopted a common position on drug policy…
Shameless: Prohibitionists exploit murder to smear cannabis consumers
Prohibitionists have shamelessly turned the devastating murder of a six-year-old girl into a political football in a bid to smear…