This news was actually released in late 2006 early 2007 and it just goes to demonstrate what a total cock-up the current US Administration has made of eradicating Cannabis.
In Rob Kampia’s words - executive director of Washington’s Marijuana Policy Project - “The fact that marijuana is America’s number-one cash crop after more than three decades […]
The most expensive place in the world to get stoned is Japan, according to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime’s annual World Drug Report. The street price of a gram of cannabis weed was $58.30 in 2005, over twice as much as in the next most expensive nation, Australia. Americans pay nearly twice […]
This is an article taken from the Guardian.co.uk website.
Cannabis users are smoking more of the stronger stuff as skunk marijuana pushes traditional pot to the sidelines of the British drugs market, a government advisory panel heard today.
The highly potent sinsemilla, or “skunk” as it’s known on the street, is now used by up to 70% […]
The Transform Drug Policy Foundation is a charitable think tank that seeks to draw public attention to the fact that drug prohibition itself is the major cause of drug-related harm to individuals, communities and nations, and should be replaced by effective, just and humane government control and regulation.
Transform has emerged in response to the increasingly […]
Skunk.co.uk is urgently looking for people to help write Press Releases and maybe news-related Blog Posts for this blog.
As the press releases will essentially be released through a partner website to the Google News network, we will be looking for the following:
A very good command of the English Language and strong writing skills
A strong interest […]
Last Autumn, during a nationally televised presidential debate, Barack Obama hesitantly raised his hand and joined with most of his Democratic rivals to declare that he opposed decriminalising cannabis.
But as a candidate for the U.S. Senate four years ago, Mr. Obama told Illinois college students that he supported eliminating criminal penalties for cannabis use or […]
The BBC website published a story yesterday, following on from two studies recently published in Respirology and the European Respiratory Journal suggesting that heavy cannabis users may be at a significantly greater risk of chronic lung disease - including cancer - compared to tobacco smokers.
One of the studies took a sample group of 79 patients […]
This graph speaks for itself.
After a few years of battling my own nicotine addiction, I can personally say that if I ever have children, I’d far rather they smoked the odd spliff than became regular cigarette smokers or heavy drinkers.
It was with much pleasure that I read the report last year commissioned by the government […]
According to an article on the London Evening Standard’s website today, Vietnamese run Cannabis “farms” have been found in 41 out of the 43 police force areas in England and Wales and five out of the eight forces in Scotland. So vast is the production, it seems almost certain that the UK is now exporting […]
According to the London Evening Standard (Thisislondon.co.uk) A teenager who was crazed by high-strength cannabis butchered a grandmother after ‘voices in his head’ told him to stab a woman. The article continues with:
Ezekiel Maxwell, a paranoid schizophrenic, launched the horrific attack after years of smoking super-strength ’skunk weed’.
The 17-year-old claimed ‘gangster voices’ from the […]
