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Legal Highs Ban 'Won't Make Much Difference'

PA | Posted 02.04.2012 | UK
Read More: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Home Affairs Select Committee, Home Office, Ketamine, Drugs, UK Drug Policy Commission, War on Drugs, Sally Bercow, Legal Highs, UK News, UK Crime, Acpo, Mexxy, Association of Chief Police Officers, Ukpdc, Acmd, UK News

Drug campaigners have backed the warning from police chiefs that new government powers to ban legal highs will not work. The UK Drug Policy Commiss...

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What's a Legal High?

Rupert Wolfe-Murray | Posted 01.06.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Recovery, Legal Highs, Mexxy, Addiction, Treatment, Ketamine, Heroin, Mephedrone, Amphetamine, Acmd, UK Lifestyle News
Rupert Wolfe-Murray

Legal Highs are cocktails of legal chemicals which imitate the effects of illegal narcotics. They are the new generation of party drugs. But they are very different to the illegal substances that everyone has heard of because they are constantly evolving.

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Drugs: Why Evidence Based Policies Must Lead the Way

Jason Reed | Posted 17.01.2012 | UK
Read More: mi5, Peter Hitchens, Drugs, Transform, Bbc, The Beckley Foundation, Baroness Manningham-Buller, Jim Duffy, Release, Baroness Meacher, Leap, Prohibition, LEAP UK, Acmd, Cannabis, House of Lords, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, #Drugscience, Jason Reed, Huffington Post, Lord Lawson, Home Office, UK News
Jason Reed

It's time that the burden of proof was shifted. The case for reform is firm and hard to ignore. The rationale for keeping the drug laws anchored needs justifying, and evidence must be placed by those who want to keep the 'drug war' alive.

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The Psychedelics Debate: The Expert's Viewpoint

Richard Shrubb | Posted 22.12.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Prof David Nutt, Dr Ben Sessa, Ketamine-Research, Acmd, Magic Mushrooms, Lsd Research, Therapeutic Psychedelics, UK Politics News
Richard Shrubb

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 Co...

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Skunk: Jacqui Smith's Other Injustice

Jason Reed | Posted 30.10.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Cannabinoids, Drugscience, David Nutt, Ben Goldacre, Drugs, Prime Minister David Cameron, Dr Ben Goldacre, Bad Science, Cannabis, Professor Nutt, Jacqui Smith, Cannabis Skunk, Jason Reed, Home Secretary, Thc, Skunk, Louise Mensch, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Misuse of Drugs Act, Alan Johnson, Mark Reckons, Prime Minister, Acmd, UK Parliament, UK Politics News
Jason Reed

In the last thrashes of Gordon Brown's Labour government, the Prime Minister and the consecutive Home Secretaries of Alan Johnson & Jacqui Smith once more took political umbrage with cannabis.

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The Misuse of Drugs Act - Happy 40th Birthday

Jason Reed | Posted 02.10.2011 | UK
Read More: Drugscience, Harm, Cannabis, Drug War, Richard Nixon, The Guardian, War, Misuse-of-Drugs-Act, Release, Jason Reed, Drugs, Shafer Report, Misuse of Drugs Act, War on Drugs, Prime Minister, Acmd, UK News
Jason Reed

40 years old, and some argue the Misuse of Drugs Act is ready for retirement. Others reason that it is a good act but just needs the correct application. Whatever the consensus, the hangover will rage for a little while longer.

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