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Sativex (pharmaceutical marijuana) approved in ten more European countries
If your strategy to legalize the use of plant cannabis by all people for any reason is to preach “All use is medical/wellness”, cannabinoid pharmaceuticals is where you’ll end up. There exists a paradigm for the medical / wellness use of substances, and it lies in the realm of doctors and pharmacists and prescriptions and manufactured drugs. However, there also exists a paradigm for the recreational use of substances, and it lies in the realm of taverns and bartenders and DUI laws and ID checks and home brewing.
UK drug squad raids home for marijuana, finds guinea pigs
The onboard thermal imaging camera identified what looked like a clear case of a heating system to cultivate the illegal weed.
But police were left glowing with embarrassment when they swooped on Pamela Hardcastle’s semi [like a townhouse for our US readers] – and found the family’s guinea pigs Simon and Kenny being kept warm by an electric heater.
Howard Marks Movie Opens in the UK
The movie “Mr. Nice”, the story of long time English smuggler turned marijuana activist, Howard Marks, opened last weekend in the UK.
Stash for Tue, Aug 17, 2010
SF therapist Dr. Michael Edelstein, anti 12 Steps, pro Prop 19; Sahra Kant interviews Amber Ladd; Crazy anti Prop 19 rhetoric; music by Amber Ladd.
More UK Reefer Madness: Death crash pilot ‘had used cannabis’
A prime example of the UK media’s reefer madness. Start with a headline like “Death crash pilot ‘had used cannabis’”. Ooh! Death! Crash! Cannabis! Next, post a lede that infers that cannabis use has some dire consequence:
(Manchester Evening News) A pilot who died when his microlite aircraft crashed into moorland was found to have traces of cannabis in his system, an inquest heard.
US waves white flag in disastrous ‘war on drugs’
Prepare to shed a tear over the loss of revenue that eventual decriminalisation of narcotics could bring to the traffickers, large and small, and to the contractors who have been making good money building and running the new prisons that help to bankrupt governments. For the lives and sanity of millions, the seeing of the light is decidedly late. The conditions of the 1920s, when the US Congress outlawed alcohol and allowed Al Capone and his kin to make massive fortunes, have been re-created up and down Latin America.
Stash for Fri, Oct 30, 2009
Download Link: Secret Stash – Register to access Hemp Headlines US Drug Czar Kerlikowske says marijuana legalization is “a non-starter” UK Drugs Advisor Nutt sacked for being honest about marijuana New Hampshire cop’s public stance on marijuana legalization costs him his job Daily Toker Tunes Best of Music: The Tentacles – “Ganja Computer” Southern California [...]
UK Drugs Advisor Nutt sacked for being honest about marijuana
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s top drug adviser was fired Friday after saying that marijuana, Ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol. David Nutt’s comments have embarrassed the British government, which toughened the penalties for possessing marijuana earlier this year over the protests of many prominent British scientists. In later comments to BBC radio’s “PM” [...]
Stash for Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Download Link: Secret Stash – Register to access Hemp Headlines The 2008 National Survey on Drug Use & Health: American use of marijuana on the rise US Forest Service slammed for racial profiling of Mexican campers UK’s New Scientist: A Better World – Legalize Drugs Daily Toker Tunes by Marijuana Music Awards . com Southern [...]
UK’s New Scientist: A Better World – Legalize Drugs
SO FAR this year, about 4000 people have died in Mexico’s drugs war – a horrifying toll. If only a good fairy could wave a magic wand and make all illegal drugs disappear, the world would be a better place. Dream on. Recreational drug use is as old as humanity, and has not been stopped [...]