Tory Steve Double, MP for St Austell and Newquay, called for the intensification of the “war on cannabis” in Parliament…
House Of Commons Narrowly Defeats Norman Lamb Bill For Legalisation And Regulation of Cannabis As Labour Whips MPs To Abstain
MPs blocked by a narrow margin an attempt by Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb to bring in a Bill on legalising…
Welsh Tory Darren Millar faces backlash after attacking PCC Arfon Jones for visiting cannabis clubs
Welsh Tory Darren Millar has faced a backlash after he attacked the Police Crime Commissioner of North Wales, Arfon Jones,…
Labour MP Jeff Smith calls for end to the ‘national scandal’ of prohibition
Jeff Smith – Labour MP for Manchester Withington and Chair of the All-party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform, a…
Jersey debates proposal to legalise use of medicinal cannabis
The States of Jersey are debating proposals to legalise the use of medicinal cannabis today. Islanders have been able to…
Royal College of Physicians and British Paediatric Neurology Association ‘cruel and ludicrous’, says Penning
Sir Mike Penning has hit out at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and British Paediatric Neurology Association (BPNA) for…
Guidelines on prescribing cannabis products throw up range of barriers and hoops
With “cannabis-based” medicine becoming legal for specialist doctors to prescribe from 1 November, the Department for Health and Social Care…
UCU disabled members call on union to support medical cannabis access
The University and College Union’s (UCU) congress passed a motion last week calling for the union to support disabled workers’…
Farce and corruption: drugs minister Victoria Atkins MP recuses herself from drugs debate ‘due to my husband’s business interests’
A debate in parliament on Drug Consumption Rooms yesterday once again exposed the blatant corruption at the heart of British…
Dispatches shows Britain the benefits of legalisation in the US
Channel 4’s latest Dispatches episode featured former Scotland Yard chief Bernard Hogan-Howe, who visited the US to see if legalisation…