June 25th, 2014
By Doug Fine
The war on drugs is a failure. It has turned US law enforcement agencies into defacto para-military organizations who operate like they have to answer to no one. And that is just one of many, many negatives that continue to burden our so called free society because of this insane policy….
By Julian Huppert
31 March 2014
Khat is as potent as a strong cup of coffee and has no organised crime involvement – yet the government wants to spend £150m on a ban that would create far more severe problems
June 19, 2014
By ThorNews
One of the women in the Oseberg ship was found with a little leather pouch full of cannabis. Scientists ask themselves: How would she use them?
19 June 2014
Albanian police have seized more than 10 tonnes of marijuana in a major operation against cannabis growers in the southern village of Lazarat.
21 May 2014
Rebecca Coombes, magazine editor
Cannabis is widely available despite its use and production being illegal in most countries. Rebecca Coombes looks at recent moves to regulate production and the potential effects on public health
1 June 2014
By Jamie Doward
Antwerp, Belgium’s genteel port city, is now revealed as a global drugs gateway and the cocaine capital of Europe
06.06.2014
Hotel Lev, Ljubljana
The purpose of this and all other forthcoming seminars in the Demystifying Cannabis series which will be organised in the next few months is to spread new knowledge gained in this field and to make it known to legal experts as well as other experts, policy-makers and the general public in Slovenia.
27 May 2014
Portugal’s capital city, Lisbon, has announced that it is exploring opening the country’s first ever drug consumption room (DCR), a positive, though somewhat belated development in the country’s pioneering drug law reforms.
28 May 2014
Source: CNN
Think about you might let your city urinate in a cup and submit the pattern to a laboratory for drug testing. Wouldn’t it cross?
Researchers in Europe did one thing comparable with forty two main cities, and many of them failed.
Lab checks on sewage water to detect chemical compounds excreted after drug use turned up excessive ranges of cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy, meth and different amphetamines.
By Theo Stroomer
20 May 2014
If America’s first marijuana legalization experiment is any indication, the end of prohibition can start smoothly.