This debate was held in Parliament following the publication on 14th July 2017 of the '2017 Drug Strategy'. The debate may be watched in full here. It starts at 13:17 and finishes at 19:00. Highlights include: ...
The long overdue update to the UK Drug Strategy is published today by the Home Office. A copy may be downloaded here. Sadly, as expected, it is nothing except more of the same. It offers no new ideas worthy of any note and reinforces the failure of existing policy by further embedding an approach which has already been conclusively proven not to work. The UK has become increasingly isolated in its approach to drugs policy and now that both Ireland and...
CLEAR Cannabis Law Reform, the UK's largest and longest established drugs policy group has appointed Andrea Clarke to the newly created position of chief executive. Andrea Clarke, 38, has been in charge of CLEAR's membership since February 2016. Her new role will encompass responsibility for all aspects of CLEAR's day to day management including finance. She has wide experience in management, administration and public-facing roles ranging from working as a tour guide with London Buses to...
CLEAR's first and overriding objective is to end the prohibition of cannabis. The tragedies that have struck the Monson family demonstrate all too clearly that prohibition of cannabis is futile. Not only does it not protect people from harm, it actually maximises the harms and dangers of the cannabis market. Nicholas Monson's eldest son, Alexander, was arrested in Kenya in 2012. allegedly for smoking cannabis. Toxicology reports found no evidence of cannabis in his system....
The meaning of the word 'skunk' has changed. Today it has come to mean high potency cannabis that contains zero or very little CBD and this is a definition that is now in general use worldwide, including by scientists such as Professors David Nutt and Val Curran who are very much supporters of reform. Originally, it meant a strain of cannabis selectively bred from a Colombian sativa, a Mexican sativa and an Afghan indica that...
This Thursday past, 25th May 2017, was the inaugural general meeting of the Cannabis Trades Association UK (CTAUK). While this may not excite your average cannabis consumer too much, it represents a very important, even momentous occasion in our progress towards a regulated cannabis market. Anyone spotting our meeting room would have seen it as just another group of business people in a day long meeting with Powerpoint presentations, flipcharts and gallons of coffee and mineral water. GSK were just down the corridor,...
Lord Nicholas Monson, whose son Rupert committed suicide after he had become psychotic from 'skunk', has teamed up with CLEAR Cannabis Law Reform to campaign for a safer, regulated cannabis market. ‘Skunk’ is a form of cannabis with zero or very little CBD that can be harmful to young people and the vulnerable. The criminal market has driven the production of 'skunk' with high levels of THC, the psychoactive compound and low levels of...
https://youtu.be/xglpxuP6skM A transcript of Peter's speech is available here. The full debate with six speakers can be viewed here. ...
This is the astonishing reality of the way the UK government is responding to the national outcry for access to cannabis as medicine. They are doing absolutely nothing. Across the world a revolution is taking place as more and more jurisdictions are introducing legal access to medical cannabis. Medical professionals and patients alike are realising the huge benefits to be gained from re-opening access to this most valuable of...
+ Lobbying Parliament + If the Government Won't Regulate Cannabis Then We'll Do It For Them + The CBD Market + Medical Cannabis + Educating And Influencing Researchers For cannabis and drugs policy reform, out of 650 MPs, there could not have been a worse person to seize power than Theresa May. There are a few who come close on both Tory and Labour benches but no one who has such a long record of bigotry, denial of evidence and refusal even to consider the subject. [caption id="attachment_7621"...