Items tagged with UK
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| Cannabis production and markets in Europe [26.06.2012] | This study brings together available evidence to provide a comprehensive analysis of cannabis production and markets across the EU. It combines infor ... |
| David Nutt: alcohol consumption would fall 25% if cannabis cafes were allowed [18.06.2012] | A former government adviser on drugs has told MPs that alcohol consumption would fall by as much as 25% if Dutch-style cannabis "coffee shops" were i ... |
| Class A drugs 'should be decriminalised,' says former drug advisor Professor David Nutt [30.05.2012] | Drugs such as LSD and MDMA should be decriminalised and sold in pharmacies, the government's former chief drug advisor has said. Professor David Nutt ... |
| Cannabis: Britain's growth industry [01.05.2012] | Given the current economic conditions, the Government is keen to encourage all sort of new entrepreneurial initiatives. But the growth of Britain's p ... |
| UK police find 20 cannabis farms a day [29.04.2012] | Police discovered more than 20 cannabis farms and factories in the UK every day last year, seizing drugs worth up to £100 million, according to a rep ... |
| Charities unite in opposition to government drugs policy [23.04.2012] | An alliance of influential charities has condemned a key government drugs strategy document, calling it an "ideological attack" on proven addiction t ... |
| UK could become 'smuggling hub' for herbal high khat [25.01.2012] | The UK could become a hub for smuggling the herbal stimulant khat, European police and politicians have warned. The Netherlands is the latest country ... |
| 100 years of the war on drugs [23.01.2012] | Hundred years ago, narcotics passed from country to country with minimal interference from the authorities. That all changed with the 1912 Internatio ... |
| Liberal Democrats want inquiry into decriminalising drug possession [04.08.2011] | Liberal Democrats are expected to call for an independent inquiry into the decriminalisation of possession of all drugs. A motion to be put at the pa ... |
| Decriminalise possession of drugs, celebrities urge government [02.06.2011] | Dame Judi Dench, Sir Richard Branson, and Sting have joined an ex-drugs minister and three former chief constables in calling for the decriminalisati ... |
| Drugs and the law: state of confusion [02.06.2011] | Forty years after the introduction of the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act, more than 2.8 million people report using illicit drugs every year in England and ... |
| Legal high battle shows need for drugs policy rethink [16.05.2011] | The Demos/UKDPC report Taking Drugs Seriously published today sets out clearly how legal highs have exposed the ancient Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (MDA ... |
| Drug laws and bans on legal highs 'do more harm than good' [14.05.2011] | The UK's "outdated" drug laws could be doing more harm than good and are failing to recognise that banning some "legal highs" may have negative conse ... |
| Diplomatic games to oppose lifting unjust ban on coca chewing [16.01.2011] | According to the government of Bolivia, the only three countries that did file a formal objection to the amendment of Bolivia to abolish the ban on c ... |
| Cannabis farmers take up arms to defend crops in booming trade [16.08.2010] | Illicit cannabis factory farmers are arming themselves with sawn-off shotguns, CS sprays and machetes and even setting booby traps to protect their c ... |
| Vienna Consensus on Drug Policy Cracks [07.04.2009] | A clear divide in drug control approaches became apparent at the end of the High Level Segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on March 11- ... |
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