http://www.skunk.co.uk/skunk Cannabis news, Marijuana articles and information from Skunk.co.uk Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:39:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Skunk.co.uk has just added some new skunk seed strains to its catalogue at www.skunk.co.uk. These are Afropips seeds and the World of Seeds feminized range. Afropips contains some very interesting strains such as the Malawi Mini strain. The shorter statured compact version of the first grade Malawi Gold that has ... http://www.skunk.co.uk/skunk/skunk-seeds-afropips-world-of-seeds.html 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 ... http://www.skunk.co.uk/skunk/cannabis-is-named-americas-biggest-cash-crop.html 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, ... http://www.skunk.co.uk/skunk/typical-cost-of-cannabis-across-the-world.html 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 ... http://www.skunk.co.uk/skunk/skunk-drug-of-choice-for-uk-cannabis-users.html 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 ... http://www.skunk.co.uk/skunk/transform-drug-policy-foundation.html 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 ... http://www.skunk.co.uk/skunk/would-you-like-to-write-about-cannabis.html 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 ... http://www.skunk.co.uk/skunk/barack-obama-supports-cannabis-decriminlisation.html This is a map showing all the Cannabis laws throughout the world - please click on it for a full-size version. The map shows the following Cannabis law 'levels': Legal/Essentially Legal, decriminalized, illegal but often unenforced, confirmed illegal, probably illegal, varies by region, no information. . Thanks to Wikipedia. http://www.skunk.co.uk/skunk/world-cannabis-laws.html 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 ... http://www.skunk.co.uk/skunk/warning-over-cannabis-lung-harm.html Proposals to return marijuana to a Class B drug in England have caused a clash between the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and the British government. Council member Les Iversen, a pharmacologist at Oxford University, said he was unhappy with "what appears to be a deliberate leak about the ... http://www.skunk.co.uk/skunk/england-plan-to-upgrade-cannabis.html