Items tagged with UK
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| Cannabis to be 'fully legal in UK within years' [29.07.2019] | A group of cross-party MPs said the UK could completely legalise cannabis use within a decade following a research trip to Canada. Labour’s David Lam ... |
| When harm reduction expansion stifles activism: A lesson from Europe [23.07.2019] | Western European harm reduction presents an interesting paradox. On the one hand, the widespread availability of effective harm reduction programs is ... |
| Support for legalising cannabis growing among British public, survey finds [14.07.2019] | Twice as many British adults now support the legalisation of cannabis than oppose it, according to a poll which reveals a “widening gulf” between pub ... |
| Make cannabis legal and cut crime, says Adam Smith think tank [09.07.2019] | A leading think tank today called for cannabis to be sold over the counter in pharmacies — and said legalisation for adult recreational use is a matt ... |
| The Cannabis Debate: 63 per cent of Londoners think UK should follow Canada and make drug legal [01.07.2019] | Londoners overwhelmingly support the legalisation of cannabis for adult recreational use, according to a poll commissioned by the Evening Standard an ... |
| Drugs expert barred from policy panel after criticising Home Office [11.06.2019] | A government minister vetoed the appointment of an expert to a public body after vetting found she had criticised the Home Office and called for drug ... |
| 'Chinese Ecstasy' drug linked to 125 deaths has arrived in Britain, NCA warns festival goers [02.06.2019] | A new ecstasy-like drug produced in China that has been linked to at least 125 deaths is feared to have spread to Britain, the National Crime Agency ... |
| High finance: Mr Nice 'cannabis lifestyle' shop opens in London [16.05.2019] | Howard Marks made his name in the illicit drugs trade but the late drugs baron is making a posthumous comeback to cash in on a booming legal trade in ... |
| Medicinal cannabis: Legalised yet impossible to access [14.05.2019] | On 1 November 2018, the UK changed the law on medicinal cannabis. Medicinal cannabis products were moved from schedule 1, meaning they have no medici ... |
| Cannabis being decriminalised by back door, MPs warn [27.04.2019] | Police have been accused of decriminalising cannabis by stealth as forces recorded a drop in possession offences of up to 75 per cent in a decade. Mo ... |
| ‘You can’t arrest your way out of record drug-related deaths,’ say police [24.04.2019] | In what is effectively de facto drug decriminalisation, people caught in possession of personal amounts of controlled substances in a number of polic ... |
| Mother of girl with epilepsy has supply of medical cannabis confiscated [06.04.2019] | The law in the UK was changed last November to make access to medical cannabis legal, but parents have been struggling to secure prescriptions, due t ... |
| High-strength cannabis increases risk of mental health problems [19.03.2019] | Frequent cannabis use and high-strength varieties are likely to increase the chance of mental health problems, according to researchers in the journa ... |
| Drug consumption rooms 'should be considered' in NI [07.03.2019] | Consideration should be given to providing rooms where people can safely inject themselves with illegal drugs, NI's chief medical officer Dr Michael ... |
| Home Office gives green light to first drug testing clinic [24.02.2019] | The first drug-checking service licensed by the Home Office will allow users to have their illicit substances tested without fear of being arrested i ... |
| Tough cannabis policies do not deter young people – study [18.02.2019] | There is no evidence that tough policies deter young people from using cannabis, a study has found. Analysing data about cannabis use among more than ... |
| Legalisation of cannabis in the UK would help protect its users from harm [15.02.2019] | New research highlights associations between teenage cannabis use and a range of mental health problems. The results suggested that use of the drug w ... |
| Why Europe has dodged America's fentanyl crisis [07.02.2019] | A perfect storm of conditions over the last decade led to the current fentanyl epidemic in the US. It began with rising social deprivation and excess ... |
| Fears grow that Ketamine use by young is on the rise in England [04.02.2019] | Public Health England has expressed concern that increasing numbers of young people are using ketamine as a Guardian analysis of government data show ... |
| A safe fix for Bristol’s drug users and the city [25.01.2019] | Unlike in Bristol, in 66 cities around the world, drug users don’t have to take their drugs in public or down an alleyway. Instead they do it in a cl ... |
| Thames Valley Police 'won't arrest drug users' in pilot [17.12.2018] | People found with "small quantities of illegal drugs" will not be arrested and instead urged to engage with support services, as part of a police pil ... |
| Testing drugs at festivals is ‘a lifesaver’, study finds [09.12.2018] | An alarming rise in drug-related deaths at music festivals can be countered by testing illicit substances onsite, according to the first academic stu ... |
| How 'fixing rooms' are saving the lives of drug addicts [21.11.2018] | All over Europe, every day, many thousands of people will inject heroin in drug consumption rooms. But none of these will be in the UK, where drug ad ... |
| Police drugs lead 'impressed' by cannabis clubs [13.11.2018] | Hardyal Dhindsa, who is the lead on substance abuse for the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, has said the war on drugs is not working. ... |
| Majority of British public support legalisation of cannabis, survey reveals [29.10.2018] | The British public strongly supports the legalisation of cannabis, according to a new poll. Fifty-nine per cent of people surveyed strongly support o ... |
| UK government must look into legalising cannabis, says former Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe [21.10.2018] | Former Metropolitan Police chief Bernard Hogan-Howe has called for an urgent review of the evidence supporting cannabis legalisation. It marks a sign ... |
| Racial bias in police stop and search getting worse, report reveals [13.10.2018] | Black Britons are increasingly likely to be stopped and searched by police compared with white people, according to shocking new figures that challen ... |
| Britain’s war on dirty money lacks oomph [11.10.2018] | No one knows how much dirty money is rinsed through London, but Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) reckons British banks and their subsidiaries (i ... |
| UK doctors will be able to prescribe cannabis medicine next month [11.10.2018] | Doctors in England, Wales and Scotland will be able to prescribe cannabis-derived medicine in less than a month, the home secretary has announced. Sa ... |
| Labour peer Charles Falconer apologises over war on drugs [24.09.2018] | The former lord chancellor Charles Falconer has apologised for his role in the war on drugs, as a group of leading politicians from across the world ... |
| Britain's drug testing charity is ready to roll out in Australia [20.09.2018] | Pill testing at music festivals in Australia is inevitable, Britain's only drug-testing organisation says. Two people died from suspected drug overdo ... |
| Police chief calls for more cannabis clubs where drug can be used and traded safely [09.08.2018] | A police chief has called for cannabis users to be allowed to freely grow and sell the drug without fear of arrest in cannabis clubs, saying the “war ... |
| Medical cannabis users could still be criminalised in UK despite government accepting its benefits [24.07.2018] | Cannabis is high on the agenda at the moment. Not only have California and Canada passed new laws to legalise marijuana, but in the UK, two recent hi ... |
| Police ‘decriminalising cannabis’ as prosecutions fall away [14.07.2018] | Police forces are in effect decriminalising cannabis, campaigners say, after uncovering figures that show a substantial fall in the number of prosecu ... |
| Government won't 'stand in the way' of drug testing at festivals, says Home Office [09.07.2018] | The Home Office “would not stand in the way” of drug testing at clubs and festivals, it said. It follows calls from experts and campaigners for music ... |
| Sajid Javid looks into easing rules on medical cannabis prescription [03.07.2018] | The home secretary, Sajid Javid, is considering whether cannabis could be made easier to prescribe for medical use, Downing Street has said. It comes ... |
| Police commissioners urge Home Office to drop opposition to addicts’ ‘fix rooms’ [02.07.2018] | There are renewed calls for the UK government to allow the opening of a drug consumption room in Glasgow after three police and crime commissioners b ... |
| Legalising cannabis 'would raise £1bn in tax for the UK' [29.06.2018] | Legalising cannabis would raise £1bn a year in tax for the UK. A report from the Institute of Economic Affairs has valued the UK's black market at £2 ... |
| Tobacco giant Imperial Brands invests in medical cannabis [28.06.2018] | Tobacco firm Imperial Brands is investing in UK biotech company Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies (OCT). The move comes as campaigning to allow marijua ... |
| Durham police chief calls for legalisation of cannabis in UK [24.06.2018] | A chief constable has called for the ban on cannabis to be scrapped, arguing that it damages public safety, puts users in more danger, and gives mill ... |
| 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 ... |
| We went undercover in a Chinese MDMA factory [29.05.2018] | We want to understand why MDMA is today so cheap, so pure, and so abundant across the UK and the EU. Since 2012, pills have doubled or tripled in str ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tax-haven transparency won’t stop money laundering in Britain [08.05.2018] | Britain’s overseas territories are to be forced to adopt public registers of company ownership by the end of the decade. That’s a step in the right d ... |
| 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 ... |
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