Want to know where you can watch the Olympics compete without getting square eyes, getting hunted down by soldiers after breaking into the venue, or being shot down for trying to fly over London? Come down to Weymouth in Dorset and watch the events...

Psychiatrist Dr Ben Sessa was on Prof David Nutt's team when Nutt reported the findings of the relative harms and safety of ecstasy to the Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs to the Labour government in 2009. Nutt was summarily fired because independent research clashed with the opinion...

Rumours abound of mass resettlements of the poor from Portland, where the Olympic sailing events will be held, so landlords can take advantage of the £3 000 a week per property projected income from the Olympic Games. This isn't the preserve of 'slum landlords' - even high profile and supposedly...

During the Credit Crunch there was one UK national politician who knew his onions. Was it George Osborne? No, he was busily panicking as millions went out of his own bank account. Was it Gordon Brown? He was too busily saving his own arse over the cataclysm that took place...

In a report published by Cannabis Law Reform on the 14th September, legalisation of cannabis could make the UK economy £6.7 billion a year. This is split between cost savings to criminal justice, tax revenues to government and legal income to newly legal growers. At a...

Imagine this. A queue outside a late night cake shop, full of stoned people discussing the merits of Dorset Apple cake versus double chocolate. Drooling, they see some friendly policemen. Some run like hell for no other reason than paranoia, but the police are not threatened, either inwardly or outwardly....

In my last blog I argued that the system that has been foisted upon Weymouth has incurred unnecessary expense and delays to the residents and those who work into the town. In this final piece I argue that half measures that will seriously disrupt most of the county...

For someone with schizophrenia who has used cannabis, to say it doesn't cause schizophrenia, I am either delusional or well informed.

I am a mental health specialist journalist, and have spoken to various scientists at the leading edge of research, in my personal quest to find answers about my...

In the previous blog in this series I wrote of the chaos and damage to the economy of the Weymouth Transport Package. This one looks at what they have done in causing that chaos. Will it be better?

So, what caused the chaos?

Essentially it is the Weymouth...

Over the next three blogs I will show the business losses, inconvenience felt by the public, and the chaos that has been the hallmark of Dorset's preparations for Weymouth's bit part in the 2012 Olympics.

For this piece I shall show the real impact of the traffic chaos on...

Cannabis is a much maligned drug, it seems, for purely political reasons. In January this year the US Drug Enforcement Agency stated that there is 'evidence that smoked marijuana has a high potential for abuse, has no accepted medicinal value in treatment in the United States'.

The DEA's...

On my last blog about the MHRA considering regulation of e-cigarettes as a medical product, I had some interesting responses. I have been asked to continue looking at them.

The next question one would obviously ask is what regulations already apply to e-cigarettes? The Electronic Cigarette Trade Industry...

In March this year the UK's Medicines and Health products Regulation Authority (MHRA) launched a consultation on the regulation of non tobacco administrative products. To date there have been 1217 responses from public, commercial and voluntary sector organisation such as the Royal College of Physicians (RCP)...