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'Marijuana Recovery' - The Next Major Support Group for Recovering Alcoholics, Cocaine and Heroin Addicts?

Dr. Peter Ferentzy | Posted 30.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Addiction Treatment, Recovery, Marijuana, Alcoholism, Amphetamine. Drug Legalization, Addiction, Decriminalization, UK Health, Heroin, Cocaine, UK Lifestyle News
Dr. Peter Ferentzy

I have long been bothered by an inexcusable absence among the many recovery options available to people struggling with addictions: marijuana is not considered a viable substitute.

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'Decriminalise Drugs, Including Heroin And Cocaine'

PA/ The Huffington Post UK | Posted 14.01.2013 | UK
Read More: Drug-Decriminalisation, Decriminalization, Drugs, Poll, UK News, Heroin, War on Drugs, Cocaine, UK News

Cannabis and ecstasy should be sold in licensed shops, with the possession and use of all illegal drugs should be decriminalised, an inquiry by a grou...

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Ned Simons

Louise Mensch: 'I Did Class A Drugs And They Messed With My Brain'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ned Simons | Posted 06.07.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Drugs, Decriminalization, UK Diary, UK News, War on Drugs, Louise Mensch, UK Politics News

Tory MP Louise Mensch has said she did class A drugs in her youth and that it had "long term mental health" effects on her. Appearing on the BBC's ...

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'We Are Plainly Losing The War On Drugs'

Posted 03.07.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Ken Clarke, Drugs, Decriminalization, UK News, UK Politics News

The UK is "plainly losing" the war on drugs - and may even be going backwards, justice secretary Kenneth Clarke said today. But he insisted he was ...

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Why a New UN Resolution on 'Legal Highs' Matters

Damon Barrett | Posted 18.05.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Decriminalization, Legal Highs, Drugs, War on Drugs, Mephedrone, United Nations, UK Politics News
Damon Barrett

The Guardian/Mixmag drugs survey, published this week, highlighted the fact that there are many people out there using drugs without significant health harms. Among them are 'legal highs' or, more accurately, 'new psychoactive substances'.

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Commonwealth Must put gay Rights on its Agenda

Peter G Tatchell | Posted 12.09.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Lgbt, Kamalesh Sharma, Law Ministers, Politics, Law, Homosexuality, Commonwealth, Tatchell, Decriminalization, Gay, Foreign Policy, Gay Rights, UK Politics News
Peter G Tatchell

Whatever excuses the Commonwealth may offer in its defence, one fact is indisputable: in the six decades of its existence it has never debated LGBT human rights.

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