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More Medicinal Cannabis Products Legalised

Two cannabis-based medicines have been approved for use by the NHS in England to treat epilepsy and multiple sclerosis.

Is the UK ready to legalise cannabis?

YES Max Morris-Edwards The idea that cannabis should be legalised for recreational use is rapidly growing in popularity across the UK. Cannabis is indeed the most used illegal drug in…

Big winner of cannabis legalisation would be ‘evil corporations’, says Hitchens at campus debate

Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens was defeated by ex-Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker in a cannabis legalisation debate watched by 200 people on the 7th April in Fulton. A…

MP Caroline Lucas fights for UK drug policy reform

Caroline Lucas has been gathering information from a wide variety of sources in order to put pressure on the national government to reassess current UK drug policy and consider an…

It’s time to admit defeat in the war on drugs

Zero-tolerance policies are a knee-jerk reaction to the drug epidemic, and Sussex University’s implementation of this policy will follow in a long line of failed attempts. Prohibition against drugs has…