----- Original Message -----From: Peter ReynoldsTo: [email protected]: Friday, July 08, 2011 2:45 PMSubject: Complaint against the Daily Mail, issue dated 20th June 2011 Dear Sirs, "Drug addicts get methadone on the NHS...
----- Original Message -----From: Peter ReynoldsTo: [email protected]: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 4:07 PMSubject: Complaint against the Guardian, issue dated 14th June 2011 Dear Sirs, "Depression is not a 'brain disorder'", the Guardian, 14-06-11 I wish to make a complaint concerning the above article which is still available online at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2011/jun/14/depression-brain-disease-david-nutt? I make the complaint on my own account but also in my capacity as the Leader of Cannabis Law Reform (CLEAR), a UK political party, of...
----- Original Message -----From: Peter ReynoldsTo: [email protected]: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 12:30 PMSubject: Complaint against the Hertfordshire Mercury, issue dated 15th June 2011 Dear Sirs, "Cannabis is ruining lives - MP", the Hertfordshire Mercury, 15-06-11 I wish to make a complaint concerning the above article which is still available online at: http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/Cheshunt-and-Waltham/Cannabis-is-ruining-lives-MP-14062011.htm I make the complaint on my own account but also in my capacity as the Leader of Cannabis Law Reform (CLEAR), a...
----- Original Message -----From: Peter ReynoldsTo: [email protected]: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 12:34 PMSubject: Complaint against the Newmarket Journal, issue dated 13th June 2011 Dear Sirs, "Cannabis 'Russian roulette' warning", the Newmarket Journal, 13-06-11 I wish to make a complaint concerning the above article which is still available online at: http://www.newmarketjournal.co.uk/news/regional/cannabis_russian_roulette_warning_1_2762093 I make the complaint on my own account but also in my capacity as the Leader of Cannabis Law Reform (CLEAR), a UK political party,...
----- Original Message -----From: Peter ReynoldsTo: [email protected]: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 12:21 PMSubject: Complaint against the Bearsden Herald, issue dated 13th June 2011 Dear Sirs, "Cannabis 'Russian roulette' warning", the Bearsden Herald, 13-06-11 I wish to make a complaint concerning the above article which is still available online at: http://www.bearsdenherald.co.uk/news/cannabis_russian_roulette_warning_1_1672386 I make the complaint on my own account but also in my capacity as the Leader of Cannabis Law Reform (CLEAR), a UK political party,...
Cameron On Cannabis Part 6 is here. For those following this correspondence stage by stage, I wrote to Mr Cameron on 5th April and having received no reply wrote again on 26th April. On 3rd May a letter in reply was sent from the infamous "Mrs E. Adams", now known to be a mythical figure and an invention of 10, Downing Street. She thanked me for my letter of 5th April and said:"Your correspondence is...
A friend, who I shall not name, spoke to me in despair the other day. She is a medicinal user, someone who really, and I mean really, needs cannabis because it alone enables her to lead a productive life. There are many, even in the cannabis and drug law reform community, who still do not really understand this. They throw around ill-considered ideas such as there is little difference between medicinal and recreational users or that we...
Originally published in the London Evening Standard, 6th May 2003 When I read last week that as many as 30,000 deaths a year in Britain could be caused by smoking cannabis, I reacted in a most uncustomary way for a mild-mannered scientist. I was infuriated. As someone acknowledged throughout the world as a specialist in how drugs affect the brain, I know a great deal about cannabis, and I know...
I have today written to Baroness Browning protesting at the appointment of Dr Linda Harris to the ACMD. See here for the Home Office announcement.Dear Baroness Browning, Appointment of Dr Linda Harris to ACMD We strongly object to the appointment of Dr Harris to the ACMD. She is well known as having extremist and unbalanced views on cannabis. There is also a direct conflict of interest as she is chief executive of Spectrum...
Recently we have received a large number of decisions from the Press Complaints Commission (PCC). Not once has it ruled in our favour. The original post about each complaint will be edited to include the decision and the title amended to indicate the result. All complaints made be viewed by going to the "Campaigns" item on the menu and choosing "Press Complaints Commission". Of course, I am disappointed at these results but I believe it is...