08 Sep 2011

Sarah Martin Represents The Leading Edge Of Cannabis Medicine In Britain

Sarah Martin, a legend in the British cannabis campaign and a CLEAR member, is speaking at the International Association For Cannabinoid Medicines (IACM) conference on Saturday, 10th September 2011. This is the 6th IACM Conference on Cannabinoids in Medicine and the 5th European Workshop on Cannabinoid Research. It is taking place in Bonn, Germany. Details here. GW Pharmaceuticals is also playing a major role in the conference. What is clear though...

21:26 / Medicine / Politics / Peter Reynolds
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07 Sep 2011

The Sativex Scam part 2.5

The Sativex Scam part 1 The Sativex Scam part 2Misinformation, Propaganda, Untruths And Lies.The title of this piece reveals that it is an extra. I had intended to get to the scandalous untruths being promoted by GW Pharmaceuticals a little later in this series but events have overtaken me. In the Manchester Evening News, the Daily Mail, the Sun and the Daily Mirror, GW has been promoting the untruth that Sativex "does not get users high" and...

12:47 / Complaints & Representations / Economy & Business / Medicine / Politics / Peter Reynolds
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03 Sep 2011

Appeal For Funds – Please Help!

Can you spare a few pounds to help fund the CLEAR campaign? Our biggest costs are travelling expenses, printing and promotional material. Everyone who works for CLEAR does so on a voluntary basis and all members of the executive committee even pay their own telephone and internet bills. Over the next few months we have some big commitments. Our biggest single expense ever has been commissioning the "Taxing the UK Cannabis Market" report from IDMU....

18:39 / Economy & Business / Politics / Peter Reynolds
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02 Sep 2011

Cameron On Cannabis Part 8

Mr Cameron, It's You Who Needs Education About Cannabis (Part 1) Don't Let Cameron Get Away With His Untruths About Cannabis. Write A Letter! (Part 2) Cameron On Cannabis Part 3 Cameron On Cannabis Part 4 Cameron On Cannabis Part 5 Cameron On Cannabis Part 6 Cameron On Cannabis Part 7 I wrote to Mr Cameron again today. Dear Mr Cameron, It is now more than six months...

10:35 / Medicine / Politics / Peter Reynolds
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01 Sep 2011

Press Conference – “Taxing The UK Cannabis Market”

CLEAR is calling a press conference on 14th September to announce the publication of the report "Taxing The UK Cannabis Market", commissioned from the Independent Drug Monitoring Unit (IDMU). With the assistance of the Labour MP Paul Flynn, we have been able to book the Jubilee Room, just off the 900 year old Westminster Hall, right in the heart of the Houses of Parliament. This is as big an opportunity to get our message across as...

17:06 / Politics / Press Releases / Peter Reynolds
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26 Aug 2011

A summary of the health harms of drugs (NHS) – Critique of the cannabis information

Cannabis has never killed anyone directly. That is a claim which has been made for years now by the cannabis law reform campaigns and has always been treated with some derision by those who insist cannabis is a prohibited drug because it's dangerous. Well, now we can not only say it but we can actually provide a reference from, of all places, the British Government. 'A summary of the health harms of drugs' (here) is published by...

11:32 / Medicine / Peter Reynolds
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25 Aug 2011

Granny’s List Updated

The latest edition of Granny Storm Crow's medical marijuana list is out. For those not familiar with it, Granny's List is the most remarkable reference list of sources relating to information on medicinal cannabis. It now runs to an incredible 543 pages. Of course, according to the UK and US governments, cannabis has no medicinal value so those 543 pages must be nothing but nonsense, mustn't they? You can download Granny's List here....

10:35 / Medicine / Peter Reynolds
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24 Aug 2011

The Sativex Scam part 2

The Sativex Scam part 1, "The Truth That Must Be Told"The OpportunityIt is certain that mankind has used cannabis consistently for around 5000 years. In fact, it's probably more. That was the Bronze Age. Before that was the Stone Age which lasted 2.5 million years. Before that homo sapiens wasn't even the predominant species. I would guess it's more like hundreds of thousands of years ago that ancient man first discovered the value of the...

19:37 / Economy & Business / Medicine / Politics / Peter Reynolds
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22 Aug 2011

Baroness Browning On Cannabis Part 3

I wrote to Baroness Browning back on 16th May shortly after she was appointed as the new drugs minister. You can read that first part of this story here: A Welcome Note To The New Drugs Minister. I wrote to her again on 27th June. You can read that here: Baroness Browning On Cannabis Part 2 I wrote again today: Dear Baroness Browning, I refer to my previous emails...

19:59 / Law / Medicine / Politics / Peter Reynolds
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