With the revelation that a storyline exploring the medicinal use of cannabis will air on Coronation Street in February, the debate on the state of the UK’s drug policy …
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Calum Armstrong
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Following on from two excellent, compassionate documentaries about drug addiction – Louis Theroux: Drinking To Oblivion and Chasing Dad: A Lifelong Addiction – the BBC continue to delve into the darker …
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Call it a ‘movement’, call it a ‘community’, whatever you call them, you can’t deny that activists campaigning for cannabis legalisation in the UK aren’t putting the hours in …
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Instead of helping us become ‘one with the world,’; is drug taking actually contributing in some way to destroying our planet? Beyond its title being a rollicking triptych of …
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It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its …
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After a successful career as a stockbroker in Arizona, Widnes-born Shaun Attwood experienced even more success as a major Ecstasy distributor. However, it all came crashing down after Attwood …
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In his powerful piece for The Evening Standard, Nick Clegg called for British doctors to be granted the right to prescribe medical cannabis to those in need. Published …
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If you get a headache, you can take a painkiller. If you cut yourself, you put on a plaster. If you become physically or psychologically addicted to any particular …
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Cannabis is on the cusp of becoming the next great commercial enterprise of social change, or so you would believe coming off the phone with Dan Sutton, the Managing …
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The LA Times have published an in-depth report on OxyContin, which was at one point the best selling painkiller in the USA (and continues to generate billions. However, as the …