Items tagged with UK
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| Cannabis war 'comprehensively lost', says William Hague [19.06.2018] | Former Conservative leader Lord Hague has called for a "decisive change" in the law on cannabis - suggesting that the Tories should consider legalisi... |
| Hunt wants swift review of cannabis oil law after Billy Caldwell case [18.06.2018] | The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has said he backs the use of medicinal cannabis oil and called for a swift legal review after an emergency licence... |
| MPs condemn UK cannabis laws after epileptic boy's medication seized [12.06.2018] | MPs have criticised the UK’s cannabis laws and called for urgent reform after a boy had his first epileptic seizure in 300 days because the governmen... |
| Legalising cannabis ‘could earn Treasury £3.5bn’ [02.06.2018] | Introducing a legal cannabis market to the UK could earn the Treasury between £1bn and £3.5bn a year in tax revenues, a new report suggests. Health P... |
| Doctors in Commons rally to overturn ban on medicinal cannabis [24.05.2018] | Doctors in the House of Commons are to lead a campaign to change the law banning the medicinal use of cannabis, as a new all-party parliamentary grou... |
| Drugs policing: Federation spokesman calls for policy rethink [22.05.2018] | The Police Federation spokesman on drugs policing, Simon Kempton, has called for a rethink on drugs policy, saying prohibition has "never worked". Sg... |
| High time to rehash drug policy, think tanks say, as legalisation could save taxpayer £900m [13.05.2018] | Think tanks have today called on the government to radically rethink its drug policy, as it was revealed that taxpayers could save nearly £900m a yea... |
| Harsher drug prohibition won’t stop violence, but regulation might, law enforcers say [02.05.2018] | After a spate of violent crime, the UK Home Office released its Serious Violence Strategy. Amber Rudd, former home secretary, said, perhaps inevitabl... |
| Medicinal cannabis policies and practices around the world [24.04.2018] | Although cannabis remains a prohibited substance worldwide, in recent decades a series of political, legislative and judicial processes in various pa... |
| Europe is losing the fight against dirty money [02.04.2018] | Rob Wainwright, who will be leaving his post as Europol director after almost a decade, said: “One of my favorite frustrations is on financial crime ... |
| LibDem MSP says Scotland should ‘open regulated drugs market’ [28.03.2018] | Scotland should have its own “regulated cannabis market” to control the pricing and potency of the drug, LibDem MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton has claimed. H... |
| Britain’s stringent rules on medical cannabis harm patients [17.03.2018] | In 2016 Britain harvested 95 tonnes of legally grown cannabis, twice as much as a year earlier, and more than any other country. The International Na... |
| UK revealed to be world's biggest producer of medical cannabis [06.03.2018] | The UK is the world's largest producer and exporter of legal cannabis for medical and scientific use, according to a report from the UN's Internation... |
| Skunk is causing misery – criminalisation isn’t working [01.03.2018] | C an Britain ever kill its worst taboo? This week’s news of the soaring prevalence of skunk, in place of weaker and less harmful herbal forms of cann... |
| High-strength cannabis now dominates illegal market, study finds [27.02.2018] | Almost all cannabis seized by police now comprises high-strength varieties, with outdoor-grown herbal strains and hashish barely found, according to ... |
| Plans for heroin to be prescribed to addicts in West Midlands [12.02.2018] | Doctors in the West Midlands could soon be prescribing heroin for addicts, who would be invited to inject themselves with clean syringes in drug cons... |
| Trafficked, beaten, enslaved: the life of a Vietnamese cannabis farmer [31.01.2018] | At 10, ‘Stephen’ was taken from Hanoi to London and then spent four years tending plants for a brutal drug gang. Now awaiting news of an appeal again... |
| ‘Prison time will not stop my fight for cannabis’ [29.01.2018] | Cannabis campaigner Mike Dobson has vowed to give up growing the drug after a sobering second spell in prison. But the 39-year-old is refusing to aba... |
| Cannabis clubs 'could open across country' as founder reveals police 'very supportive' of plan [25.01.2018] | A cannabis club founder wants to expand across the UK after a senior cop visited his the Middlesbrough-based club. Michael Fisher set up Teesside Can... |
| Blowing up: Britain’s cocaine glut [07.12.2017] | “It's as easy as buying a drink from an off-licence.” That is how Ellen Romans, a recovering drug addict, describes picking up cocaine near where she... |
| The Swiss cannabis farm aiming to supply 'legal weed' across Europe [24.11.2017] | I n fields across Switzerland the harvest time for cannabis is coming to an end, and workers are distributing the crop to shops in France and Switzer... |
| Are UK drug consumption rooms likely? [12.10.2017] | What does the Home Office really think about drug consumption rooms - safe and supervised places where addicts can inject or inhale illicit substance... |
| Britain is developing a weed café culture under the radar [02.10.2017] | There is bipartisan support for cannabis legalisation among MP’s in the UK. However, the only pro-legalisation party, the Liberal Democrats, failed t... |
| A flagship law is on the brink of collapse as experts say the Tories have ‘blood on their hands’ [31.08.2017] | One of the Conservative government’s flagship laws has been left on the brink of collapse, as the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced a “ full ... |
| Government accused of 'squandering' £1.6bn a year on anti-drug policy [07.08.2017] | Ministers have been accused of "squandering" £1.6bn a year after an official analysis of the Government’s drug strategy concluded that illegal drugs ... |
| We already know how to stop people dying from drugs – but the Government refuses to do it [02.08.2017] | Last year saw the highest number of drug-related deaths since records began in 1993. More than half of these deaths involved an opiate, such as heroi... |
| Drug consumption rooms ruled out by government [26.07.2017] | The UK government has dismissed a call from its own advisory body to consider introducing drug consumption rooms. The Advisory Council on the Misuse ... |
| Revealed: The London boroughs that grow the most weed [06.07.2017] | In recent years, UK police have quietly eased off their prosecution of cannabis farmers. Between 2011 and 2014 the number of people taken to court fo... |
| What a regulated UK cannabis market might mean for business [02.06.2017] | Former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg claimed that legalising cannabis in the UK would improve public health, but warned of the “risks of unfettere... |
| Proportion of UK drug users using dark net to buy drugs 'doubles in three years' [25.05.2017] | There has been a huge rise in the number of UK drug users using the dark internet to buy illegal substances, a new survey has revealed. The Global Dr... |
| Spice ruins lives and costs taxpayers a fortune. It doesn’t have to be this way [28.04.2017] | Spice-induced “zombie” outbreaks in New York and in Manchester have hit the headlines in the past year. Use of these new damaging and powerful forms ... |
| Are police too skint to control Britain's weed growing industry? [17.04.2017] | Six years ago police were busting more than 20 cannabis farms a day. Local newspapers were filled with images of officers wading through illegal grow... |
| With Spice, politicians are sleepwalking into another “war on drugs” disaster [16.04.2017] | Reefer madness is back. Only this time, it has been rebranded. Now it is Spice Nightmare that is stalking the UK, as a sinister new drug turns poor a... |
| Trafficked and enslaved: the teenagers tending UK cannabis farms [25.03.2017] | An international network of traffickers brings teenage boys from Vietnam to become enslaved gardeners in British suburbs. Yet every few weeks, anothe... |
| Cannabis legislation in Europe [15.03.2017] | At a time of increased debate on the laws controlling the use of cannabis in the European Union, this report answers some of the questions most often... |
| How British weed growers are avoiding prosecution [15.03.2017] | The United Kingdom Cannabis Social Clubs (UKCSC) have recently launched a system that, in theory, would help you battle a court case if your grow was... |
| Durham police will give addicts heroin to inject in 'shooting galleries' [05.03.2017] | Heroin addicts will be given supplies to inject in specially designated “shooting galleries” under radical plans to tackle drug-related crime in Durh... |
| Preston’s first cannabis club to challenge Home Office [25.01.2017] | Mike Dobson, a self-confessed cannabis user for 25 years, is seeking a judicial review following the Home Office’s refusal to issue a licence to allo... |
| Why addicts take drugs in 'fix rooms' [09.01.2017] | Britain could soon see its first "fix room" for drug users - a safe space where addicts can take illegal narcotics under medical supervision. But who... |
| Make heroin available on prescription, official UK drug advisers say [11.12.2016] | Heroin on prescription and supervised injecting rooms are among a range of measures that the government’s drug advisers have suggested to reverse the... |
| Legalisation of cannabis 'only solution to crime and addiction problems' [21.11.2016] | Cannabis should be legalised in the UK, according to a report that has the backing of several cross-party MPs including the former deputy prime minis... |
| The war on drugs has failed: doctors should lead calls for drug policy reform [13.11.2016] | Three United Nations treaties, the oldest from 1961, seek to "advance the health and welfare of mankind" by prohibiting the non-medical use of some d... |
| UK’s Cannabis Social Clubs come of age [08.11.2016] | Around 150 activists, academics, and journalists, gathered in Leicester to attend the first Annual General Meeting of United Kingdom’s Cannabis Socia... |
| Drug deaths now 'a public health emergency' [21.10.2016] | “The lessons of a failing national policy need to be learnt,” is the conclusion experts drew about the surge in drug deaths. Deaths from heroin more ... |
| These British police forces have stopped arresting drug users [18.10.2016] | People caught carrying personal amounts of drugs, including cocaine and heroin, are being diverted away from the criminal justice system in what coul... |
| Stop and search still targets black people, police watchdog says [20.09.2016] | Police stops of black people are still at an “eye-watering” level compared with white people, the official police watchdog said and promised a fresh ... |
| Weed is effectively legal in the UK [22.08.2016] | Arrests for cannabis possession in England and Wales have fallen by 46 percent since 2010. Cautions have dropped by 48 percent and charges by 33 perc... |
| Ex-top undercover drugs cop forfeits anonymity to fight against the War on Drugs [19.08.2016] | Neil Woods insists nothing good came of his 14 years as one of the UK’s most successful undercover cops, fighting the war on drugs. His painstaking, ... |
| Festival drug checking is here, but it now needs to be expanded across the country [07.08.2016] | A step towards safer drug use came about recently with the UK’s first drug-checking service at the Secret Garden Party festival. Operated by The Loop... |
| Drug-testing at music festivals: Cocaine or concrete? [29.07.2016] | Backstage at many of Britain’s summer music festivals, suspicious pills and powders seized from tents are analysed by lab technicians. Usually it is ... |
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