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A former government drugs tsar who was sacked from his role after suggesting horse-riding was as dangerous as ecstasy has waded into the debate about ...
Notts County will use heat lamps seized by police in raids on local cannabis farms to grow their Meadow Lane pitch. The League One club said police...
The time has come to dispense with our dusty 'legalise or not legalise' discussion as this provokes a non-debate and an almost literal fist-fight of a discussion due to its lack of finesse.
The majority of Britons support a softer stance on cannabis laws, according to a survey by an independent think-tank. More than half the public - 5...
Smoking cannabis can double the risk of stroke in young and middle-aged adults, a study suggests. Scientists looked at 160 stroke victims aged 18 t...
The wife of a prominent businessman was found frozen to death in the back of a car, post mortem examination results have revealed. The body of Nico...
Last year the Press Association reported a study that suggested at least one million Brits go to work with drugs in their system. The study carried ...
People should be able to live how they want, not how some illiberal nanny state that thinks it knows best and forces laws onto its unwilling subjects wants them to.
There is no strong evidence to back the use of cannabis extract in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), it was claimed. A review of evidence o...
The last time a Royal Commission was called for on drug policy was that of the 9 March 2011; Lord Norton of Louth raised the issue in a question for short debate - the call for an evidence lead policy was to such an extent that the word evidence was used 42 times in only an hour.
The ten things you need to know on Monday 10th December 2012... 1) TIME TO DECRIMINALISE DOPE? From the BBC: "The government is being urged ...
Students who take gap years are more likely to smoke weed, "engage in risky behaviour" and earn less than those who go to university immediately after...
Ironically, the 'hard drugs' we warn our children about before they hit the town kill far fewer people than alcohol or nicotine, substances which pose bigger threats to their long term health.
While in Britain, the medicinal qualities of cannabis is still treated with scepticism by a society fond of imagining pallid teenage boys crouched beh...
Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has admitted the change in the legal status of cannabis she introduced caused "confusion and dissent". The polit...
On the US election night, there were a host of unprecedented referendums that included three states proposing full-blown reform and regulation of their marijuana laws, in essence, and to use the shorthand, marijuana would be legalised. Those who follow drug policy held their collective breath (if they were awake to see it) as the results poured in from Washington, Oregon and Colorado.
Ending the war on drugs, moreover, will be a victory for international human rights law. It will be a victory for international law itself - for environmental law, anti-corruption agreements, international security, for the achievement of international development agreements and improved health - all of which have been damaged by decades of prohibition. Colorado and Washington have taken us one step closer. For that we should all celebrate.
Researchers in Norway claim they have found new evidence to support their theory that cannabis use causes temporary 'cognitive breakdown' in non-psych...
Using illegal drugs is like gambling or eating junk food and there needs to be a wholesale review of the Government's approach, the independent body t...
An elderly couple found themselves the target of a police drug raid, after accidentally growing a huge cannabis bush from buying the shrub at a local ...
Clark, now 26, was no stranger to the ravages of M.S. - having watched his stepfather suffer and ultimately pass away from the illness, Clark is all to aware of what the condition can do to families and patients. Clark was less than enamoured with the treatments on offer to him.
A new study has reported a link between smoking weed and an increased risk of developing testicular cancer According to a new study from the Univer...
Before I started working for Castle Craig rehab clinic I was in favour of legalising cannabis. I had experimented with it at college, believed it wasn't addictive and liked the idea of taxing the drug and cutting out the criminals who profit from it.
Two Britons and two Irish men and a woman have been arrested after a half tonne haul of cannabis was seized from a yacht off Spain. The arrests wer...
It's hard to write on the contestable nature of cannabis without sounding like an aimless defender of the substance itself, but there are actually serious consequences to the flippant way that the UK media handles the scientific reporting of drugs, and specifically, cannabis.
