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Cannabis is named America’s biggest cash crop

20 February, 2008 (05:37) | Cannabis in the news | No comments

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 […]

Transform Drug Policy Foundation

12 February, 2008 (06:29) | Cannabis Law, Cannabis in the news | No comments

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 […]

Barack Obama supports cannabis decriminlisation

7 February, 2008 (06:41) | Cannabis Law, Cannabis in the news | No comments

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 […]

Warning over cannabis lung harm

1 February, 2008 (06:14) | Cannabis & Health, Cannabis in the news | No comments

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 […]