Any news for England?

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  1. #61 tmgrg, Feb 3, 2014
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  2. #62 Kush cookies, Feb 4, 2014
    I'm following dude, basically alot of the wrong people have the right shares in the drug company's so if cannabis was legalised then alot less medications from the drug company's would be produced slowing profits. Same with the paper industry, its cheaper to make the pulp to make paper from hemp then it is trees. So prices would fall and shares would plummet.

    All to do with the keeping the 1% rich!
     
  3. #63 bigredreed, Feb 4, 2014
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/nick-clegg/10616198/Britains-war-on-drugs-unwinnable-says-Nick-Clegg.html
     
    Nick Clegg has said that the war on drugs is "unwinnable" and that Britain must end the "conspiracy of silence" surrounding the issue.

    The Deputy Prime Minister said that the Liberal Democrats will publish an alternative strategy this year after completing a study of the impact of decriminalisation of marijuana in Uruguay and some US states.

    Mr Clegg, while stopping short of calling for full decriminalisation, favours a health-based approach to treating drug users.

    He told the BBC that for too long politicians have refused to consider alternatives to the war on drugs because it is "all too controversial".

    "If you are anti-drugs, you should be pro-reform," he told the BBC.

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    During a visit to Colombia he said that the war on drugs has led to "terrible conflict" and cost tens of thousands of lives.
    Liberal Democrat calls for a Royal Commission to investigate Britain's drug policy have been rejected by the Conservatives.
    Mr Clegg told The Sun newspaper that the war on drugs is ultimately "unwinnable".

     
  4. #64 JimmyTbag, Feb 4, 2014
    i hate the term 'anti drugs' no one can be completely anti drugs, since they're everywhere, and many of them have undoubtable medical uses (e.g. cannabis lol). People need to realise that drugs means drugs and that illegal drugs doesn't necessarily mean bad drugs. nothing none of us here don't already know I'm just rambling and frustrated. I tried talking to my mum last night about weed and she just kept saying 'but its illegal' and I'm just like 'what does that have to do with anything, until recently gay marriage, and even slavery were legal', arrrggg. 
     
  5. #65 M369, Feb 4, 2014
    It infuriates me every time I read this article.
    Whoever conducted the autopsy should be sacked. People drop dead every day for unknown reasons. THC is illegal. That is the only reason marijuana was given the blame. The results were not based on science or medical fact. It's based on propaganda, laziness and the fact that marijuana is illegal. Words like ' probably ' and ' could have ' should have no place in an article like this. And they are littered throughout. Unfortunately 90% of the British public who read this will believe it to be true.
     
  6. #66 Jambo89, Feb 5, 2014
  7. #67 Kush cookies, Feb 5, 2014
    Best thing to do would be just to ignore this country's select stupid laws, and live by personal morals instead. Any law system that makes a part of nature illegal isnt a law system for me.

    Man I wish I could move to Latin America!
     
  8. #68 the_tobzster, Feb 15, 2014
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  10. #70 M369, Feb 20, 2014
  11. #71 Kush cookies, Mar 7, 2014
  12. #72 herb ballistic, Mar 7, 2014
    \t uruguay The first country to legalize has already  told UN they are talking SHIT  UN is on the back foot already  and grasping at straws  Truth is out there and UN knows it 
     
  13. #73 herb ballistic, Mar 7, 2014
  14. #74 herb ballistic, Mar 8, 2014
     
    \tCANNABIS MADNESS RETURNS: DEBUNKING THE LATEST TABLOID MYTHS ABOUT WEEDBy <span style="margin:0px;font-family:HelveticaBold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Mike Power</span>08 March 2014
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    [​IMG]Cannabis madness is back once more. And this time it's deadly. News reports on January 31 into the death of Gemma Moss, 31, from Boscombe, Bournemouth, said explicitly that cannabis had killed her.
    "Devout Christian mother-of-three, 31, becomes first woman in Britain to DIE from cannabis poisoning" said the Daily Mail. "Tragic proof cannabis can really kill..." said the Metro, owned by Associated Newspapers, who also publish the Daily Mail.
    Next, the Daily Mail reported news from Germany that researchers had identified two men who died, it said, purely as a result of using the drug. The cases involved two apparently healthy young men, aged 23 and 28, who died unexpectedly after smoking cannabis. Benno Hartung and his team at University Hospital Düsseldorf in Germany said both had died of cardiac arrhythmia – when the heart beats too quickly or slowly, caused by cannabis. An open and shut case? Not quite.
    "It's a diagnosis of exclusion so you have to rule out all other possibilities," Hartung told the New Scientist. In other words, he didn't positively prove anything. What he did was to exclude all other possibilities. What if he missed one? Since the cause of death could not be established with complete confidence from examination or testing, the Dusseldorf team basically guessed. There is simply no hard, toxicological evidence that cannabis killed these men. Thee is no known mechanism of death for cannabis. The same flawed reasoning was used in Moss's death: it was an assumption.
    Adam Winstock, consultant in addictions psychiatry at King's College London and director of theGlobal Drug Survey, said there is no lethal overdose level of cannabis and questioned reports that Moss's death was due to cannabis toxicity.
    “They could not explain the cause of her death, but they found cannabis in her system and so they blamed that. An overdose of cannabis will not kill you. It might leave you sick, paranoid and twitchy and wishing you hadn't eaten the last cookie. The greatest risk from cannabis consumption is not toxic; it is behavioural – what you do and where you do it after you've smoked. People do drive stoned, and crash and die. It can, in very, very rare cases, trigger heart problems in people with pre-existing conditions,” he said.
    Professor David Nutt said on his blog that connecting cannabis with these deaths was circumstantial and tenuous.
    “Taking any amount of cannabis, like all drugs, like so many activities, puts some stresses on the body. Cannabis usually makes the heart work a little harder and subtly affects its rate and rhythm. Any minor stress on the body can be the straw that breaks the camel's back, the butterfly's wingbeat that triggers the storm. Ms Moss had suffered with depression, which itself increases the risk of sudden cardiac death. It is quite plausible that the additional small stress caused by that cannabis joint triggered a one-in-a-million cardiac event, just as has been more frequently recorded from sport, sex, saunas and even straining on the toilet.”
    In the UK in 2011, the Department of Health, not the UK's most renowned ganja stronghold, said, in its report: “A summary of the health harms of drugs' that no cases of fatal overdose have ever been reported." And if cannabis is deadly, the government might want to stop doctors prescribing Sativex – which contains nothing but the green herb in a liquid spray form.
    So why this sudden slew of anti-weed propaganda? Could it possibly be connected to the quickening bongo drums of legalisation? Colorado and Washington have just relaxed the laws on recreational use, joining many US states where the plant is used medicinally. Add to that Uruguay's 2103 decision to sell weed legally from specialist shops, Jamaica's goal of decriminalisation within a year, as well as Mexico's announcement that it, too will soon free the weed. One by one, the prohibitionist dominos are falling, and the conservative fightback will surely only increase as laws are loosened in more and more countries.
    Meanwhile, hideous herbal smoking blends containing untested, unknown research chemicals sold as 'legal weed' continue to be sold without legal impediment in hundreds of headshops across the UK. These drugs, such as AB-PINACA, AKB-4B and 23-WTF? (OK, I made the last one up) can definitely trigger psychotic episodes, strokes, and worse.


     
  15. #75 Jambo89, Mar 11, 2014
  16. #76 seedscanner, Mar 11, 2014
    The prohibitionists know the writing is on the wall. Hence the spate of cannabis poisonings. Desperate last attempts by evil people to stop us using nature. And the poor families having their dead thoughtlessly used for politics. There are some sick beasts in charge.
     
  17. #77 herb ballistic, Mar 29, 2014
  18. #78 Bubbashine, May 3, 2014
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    As a country we are still stuck in the stone ages with that ape mentality why do we still need leaders that quite frankly couldn't punch their way out of a wet paper bag with scissors in their hands! As for that shit article that can eat a dick, The thing I find most funny is how many people die from alcohol and cigarettes just imagine if there was a terrorist group going around killing the same amount of people each year as alcohol and cigarettes you would think they maybe just might make a conscious effort to remove or stop them. People say they make money on tax but they lose a lot to think of all the crime and people in hospital all the time from not being able to handle their drink. I've never seen a guy on the weekend smoke some weed go out and beat someone up for no reason or end up in hospital! Fact weed would lower the crime rate & make people way more friendly plus on the tax it could dig the UK out of this shit the bankers left use in and help Somerset sort their flooding defences out as it's clear the government at the moment aren't going to do fuck all to help all them poor people and farmers that lost everything. 
     
  19. #79 Maff, May 14, 2014
    I think weed will only be legalised here when the big political parties decide that promising decriminalization will earn them voters rather than lose them. It seems that right now that decision is in the balance. The US legalizing it definitely helps us but there's still a lot of voters who believe the propaganda that has been fed to us all. If no big party offers to decriminalize it by next year I imagine it will be a long time before it's considered again.
     
  20. #80 p42082, May 14, 2014
    Plus the fact that someone owes £20 is because of the black market, this wouldnt be as big an issue if weed was legal. I dont think regulated dispensaries would give credit.
     
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