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28 May 2018

Lazy, Self-Serving, Incompetent MPs Decide To Blame Drug Consumers For The Consequences Of Their Failed Policies.

This is the latest propaganda and falsehood in the war on drugs. According to Sajid Javid, the new home secretary, David Gauke MP who is the justice secretary, James Cleverly MP, Dr Sarah Wollaston MP, Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and even the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, it's our fault, people who consume drugs, that their failed policies have created a gigantic criminal market which uses violence in its turf wars...

17:41 / Politics / Peter Reynolds

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16 May 2018

Let’s Nail the Home Office’s Latest Smokescreen About Medical Cannabis

As the evidence and support for legal access to cannabis for medical use grows, so the Home Office adjusts and reframes its arguments in denial. This should come as no surprise. The 'hostile environment' revealed by the Windrush scandal runs through the Home Office like a stick of rock. The culture of this department is defined by Theresa May and it reflects her character and personality. It is secretive, demands total control and micro management of everything it touches and whenever...

14:43 / Medicinal Campaign / Medicine / Politics / Press Releases / Peter Reynolds

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14 May 2018

More Lies From The Home Office. A UK Government Department That Is Institutionally Dishonest.

This deceit from the Home Office needs to be called out straightaway. Andrew Gilligan, the Sunday Times journalist, did a great job of getting the Victoria Atkins cannabis scandal out into the mainstream and I thank him for that. I gave him a great deal more evidence of Home Office maladministration than he used but he managed to bring out yet more brazen dishonesty in the process. The Home Office said: “When she was appointed . . . the minister voluntarily...

14:56 / Politics / Press Releases / Peter Reynolds

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14 May 2018

Legalising Cannabis WOULD NOT Save £900 Million. A More Realistic Figure Is £6.7 Billion.

The £900 million figure being touted around by the Taxpayers' Alliance as the savings that could be achieved from legalising cannabis is a massive underestimate and isn't based on the sort of model that is currently being implemented in US states. CLEAR commissioned independent research in 2011 which shows that a model in the UK simlar to that in Colorado would produce a net gain to the UK economy of around £6.7 billion pa and perhaps...

11:13 / Politics / Press Releases / Peter Reynolds

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12 May 2018

The UK Government’s Latest Excuse About Medicinal Cannabis Is Yet Another Deception.

Nick Hurd MP, the Home Office minister, said again this week that as far as any consideration of cannabis for medical use is concerned, the government will "await the outcome" of the report on cannabis due from the WHO in 2019 "before considering the next steps". In fact, the results of an FOI request show that the UK government has refused to take part in the WHO committee which will "review cannabis...

17:33 / Medicinal Campaign / Politics / Press Releases / Peter Reynolds

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03 May 2018

There Was Grenfell, Then The Windrush Generation And Now Theresa May Fiddles While Alfie Dingley Faces Death

When Will This Tyrant Be Overthrown? The campaign to save Alfie Dingley's life looked to have succeeded on 20th March when 108 MPs met Alfie and family at Parliament. That same day, accompanied by Sir Patrick Stewart, a petition of over 370,000 signatures was delivered to Downing Street and Theresa May herself met with the family and encouraged them that everything possible would be done to help. Originally, the Home Office were suggesting that they might issue a licence to allow...

16:52 / Law / Medicinal Campaign / Medicine / News / Politics / Press Releases / Peter Reynolds

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24 Apr 2018

Review: The SteamCloud Mini Vape Cartridge Battery

This product is genius. It makes vape cartridges even more convenient and easy to use. Since I first experienced quality vape pen cartridges I've become convinced they are the future of cannabis, both as a consumer product for adults and as a medicine. They are neat, clean, convenient and if you choose a reputable brand they are the safest, most effective method of consuming cannabis. The most important factors are that they are made by a safe extraction process which nowadays...

16:43 / Reviews / Peter Reynolds

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17 Apr 2018

The Facts About CBD In The UK. April 2018.

This article is an update to 'The Facts About CBD In The UK. December 2016.' The past three years have seen a true phenomenon develop around the cannabis law reform movement which has quickly crossed into mainstream society, commerce and general awareness. It's the explosion of the CBD market, a trade that has grown from zero to £50 million per annum in the UK in this very short period. There has been a great deal of nonsense published about the market, the...

12:30 / Economy & Business / Law / Medicinal Campaign / Medicine / Peter Reynolds

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10 Apr 2018

The Views Of Dr Sarah Wollaston MP On Drugs Policy. A Worrying Case Requiring A Good Dose of Evidence.

Dr Sarah Wollaston MP is chair of the cross party Health Select Committee. She was a practising GP but is now the most senior Westminster politician, not in government, who has expertise in health and medicine. The views she expresses are extremely worrying because they betray a complete failure to take note of the evidence, particularly surprising because of her profession. I responded by explaining legalising drugs doesn't mean a free for all, it means the opposite. We have a free for...

10:45 / Politics / Peter Reynolds

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02 Apr 2018

Home Office Denies FOI Request In Cover-Up Of All Information On Cannabis Production Licences

On 6th March 2018 CLEAR submitted a Freedom of Information Request to the Home Office asking for full details of the licences accounting for the legal production of cannabis in the UK. This arose from the story which we broke on 4th March revealing that the UK is the world’s largest producer and exporter of legal cannabis, this according to data provided to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) by the government. The Home Office has refused the request. Its grounds...

10:50 / Medicinal Campaign / Politics / Press Releases / Peter Reynolds

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