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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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18 Mar 2018

UK Is The Only Country In the World To Criminalise Doctors Who Prescribe Cannabis

It's popularly believed that the obstacle to prescription of cannabis by doctors is that it is in schedule 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations. In fact, in 2001, the then drugs minster, Labour's Bob Ainsworth MP, enacted a little known provision of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 UK specifically to make prescribing of cannabis a criminal offence. Home Secretary at the...

16:55 / Law / Medicinal Campaign / Politics / Peter Reynolds

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18 Mar 2018

There Are Tyrants Abroad And Tyrants At Home.

The story of Alfie Dingley is covered in today's Sunday Times. Alfie is desperately in need of a few drops of cannabis oil each day to quell his life threatening seizures. That this medicine works for him and will save his life is proven beyond doubt under the supervision of a consultant neurologist in the Netherlands Amber Rudd can issue a licence for cannabis oil for Alfie Dingley with a single stroke of her pen. The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971...

10:46 / Medicinal Campaign / Medicine / Politics / Peter Reynolds

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15 Mar 2018

CLEAR And The Institute of Psychiatry Announce Cannabis Experiences Research Study

In conjunction with CLEAR, the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London has designed a research programme to study different experiences with cannabis and other drugs.We are seeking people aged 18 and over who will complete a questionnaire about their experiences which should take about 20 - 25 minutes. We are interested in people who have used cannabis, who still use cannabis and who have never used cannabis. Participation is voluntary. You may change your mind and withdraw...

15:53 / News / Press Releases / Science / Peter Reynolds

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09 Mar 2018

This is Paul Kenward, husband of Victoria Atkins MP who is the UK drugs minister. He grows cannabis for a living.

Mr Kenward is managing director of British Sugar which grows cannabis under contract to GW Pharmaceuticals at its 45 acre greenhouse in Wissington, Norfolk. As confirmed by British Sugar, the cannabis is for production of Epidiolex, GW's epilepsy medicine which is understood to be 98% cannabidiol (CBD). Epidiolex is not yet licensed as a medicine although it is currently with the FDA for US approval and the European Medicines Agency for approval within the EU...

10:31 / Medicinal Campaign / Medicine / News / Politics / Peter Reynolds

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08 Mar 2018

Misleading Parliament Again. Victoria Atkins, The Drugs Minister With A Family Cannabis Farm.

She's back! Victoria Atkins MP is again engaged in answering parliamentary questions on cannabis for the UK government. Clearly this is wholly improper when she directly benefits from commercial production of cannabis. Ms Atkins disappeared from public view for a few weeks after CLEAR revealed that her husband is growing 45 acres of cannabis under government licence while she argues against drugs regulation in Parliament. It was particularly notable that she was absent from the House of Commons during the recent...

14:05 / Uncategorized / Peter Reynolds

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04 Mar 2018

The UK Is The World’s Largest Producer And Exporter Of Legal Cannabis But Its Citizens Are Denied Any Access At All

This is the astonishing fact revealed by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in its 2017 report on narcotic drugs. In the UK no one has any legal access to any form of cannabis except exempt products derived from industrial hemp, most commonly CBD oil. Theoretically, the cannabis medicine Sativex is available but in practice, in England it is virtually impossible to obtain it except on a private prescription as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended that it...

13:24 / Medicinal Campaign / Medicine / News / Politics / Peter Reynolds

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