Posts Tagged ‘Britain’
Let’s Get The Dealers Off The Streets!
Cannabis Is Not A Controlled Drug
Present policy abandons control to organised crime and street dealers.
If cannabis were properly controlled, it would be taken out of the hands of criminals. Growing, importing, distributing and retailing would become legitimate businesses, subject to proper control and regulation.
What Proper Control Would Mean
- Regulated sales: licensed retailers, labelling of THC/CBD ratio, other ingredients, weight
- Quality control: elimination of pesticide and fertiliser residues, bulking agents, impurities
- Regulated commercial production, reasonable limits on domestic cultivation
- Protecting the vulnerable: age limit, ID check, harm reduction information
We Need CLEAR Common Sense About Cannabis.
A Safer Britain
- Less crime of all types
- Police can focus on violent and harmful crime
- Lower alcohol consumption
- Fewer road accidents and injuries/fatalities
- Fewer children using cannabis
- Quality controlled cannabis with no harmful adulterants
- Fewer fires from hidden cannabis farms
A Healthier Britain
- Lower alcohol consumption
- Less use of dangerous/harmful drugs
- Medicinal use: Alzheimer’s, arthritis, cancer, chronic. pain, dementia, diabetes, epilepsy, glaucoma, MS,. Parkinson’s, stroke therapy.
- Preventative therapy against auto immune and neurodegenerative diseases
- More funding for healthcare
Taxing The UK Cannabis Market
CLEAR’s policies are based on independent, expert research carried out by the Independent Drug Monitoring Unit in 2011.
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How To Regulate Cannabis In Britain
CLEAR’s detailed proposals for cannabis regulation so as to minimise all health and social harms of cannabis, protect the vulnerable and allow access to medicinal cannabis
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References:
– The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Crime, March 2014
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– How Smoking Marijuana Might Be The Best Way To Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease, January 2014
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– Few Problems With Cannabis for California, October 2013
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– The Impact of Marijuana Use on Glucose, Insulin, and Insulin Resistance, July 2013
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– Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption, May 2013
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– Why Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Traffic Deaths, December 2011
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– What can we learn from the Dutch cannabis coffeeshop system? September 2011
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– Study: Legal Medical Marijuana Doesn’t Encourage Kids to Smoke More Pot, November 2011
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– ‘Taxing the UK Cannabis Market’, 2011
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– A summary of the health harms of drugs. NHS, 2011.
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– Emerging Clinical Applications For Cannabis & Cannabinoids. A Review of the Recent Scientific Literature 2000 – 2011, NORML, 2011.
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– Bringing cannabis back into the medicine cabinet, Prof. Les Iversen, 2010.
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– Dutch among lowest cannabis users in Europe, November 2009
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– Adulterants & Cutting Agents Found in Cannabis Resin, 2009
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– Key Marijuana Compound Beats Current Alzheimer’s Drugs, August 2006
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– US Patent 6630507, Cannabinoids as Antioxidants and Neuroprotectants, 2001
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The ‘Arthur Scargill’ Approach To Cannabis Law Reform Doesn’t Work.
“Anything less than 100% capitulation on the part of the authorities is unacceptable!
Stand together in solidarity brothers. We’ll fight them in the parks, in the streets, we will never surrender!
We’ll smoke cannabis where we want, when we want and we don’t give a damn who it upsets – ‘cos it’s our rights brothers, it’s our rights!
We’ll show ’em, If we keep defying them, keep showing we don’t care what they think, keep on smoking – WE WILL PREVAIL!”
It’s the hopeless, hapless politics of the school playground. It doesn’t work. It’s about defiance, civil disobedience, selfishness and bull-headed obstinacy, always with a simmering undercurrent of aggression and violence. The ‘angry stoner’ is becoming a cliche that is causing immense damage to our campaign.
Progress will be made and is actually being made in small steps by patient negotiation, compromise and hard work. That’s real work that’s often boring, tedious and has none of the appeal of marching in the streets or sitting round in the park with your mates getting stoned. This is what has created reform, firstly for medical marijuana in California, now 19 other US states and most recently a genuine revolution in in Colorado, Washington and Uruguay. These developments have been achieved despite the demos, not because of them. Exactly the same is happening in Britain.
Legally prescribed, legally dispensed, legally imported medicinal cannabis is now in Britain. The greatest progress in the cannabis campaign since the Dangerous Drugs Act 1925 was enacted.
Anti-Thatcher Scum Define The Problem with Britain
If you disagree with Margaret Thatcher that’s fine. She, more than anyone, would have defended your right to do so.
The pitiful, rude and incontinent abuse of her shows exactly why we are so much poorer for her passing.
Britain has become the epitome of sophistry, where gossip and oppressive opinion dominate and diminish our discourse.
It is encouraged by tabloid journalism and broadcasting. Our attention is always diverted by sensation. What we miss from Margaret is the ability to focus on a goal. Ever more we are concerned and trapped by the midfield battle. In fact, Premier League football is the perfect analogy – corrupt, depraved, greedy, self-serving, manipulative.
The disgusting behaviour of those who demean the dead says it all. To those who have posted abuse of Margaret Thatcher here (deleted) and who pursue their playground bullying, good day to you. Are you proud?
We, the pride of Britain, are very proud of Maggie.
Unbelievable!
That’s the word that sums up the Olympics for me. It’s what we heard the athletes saying again and again. It’s what their performances amounted to. It was the enthusiasm and support of the crowd. It’s what was achieved in grand style by those who organised and ran this extraordinary celebration of human endeavour.
One of my most vivid memories will be of switching on the television for the news each morning at 7.00am, then finding the tears streaming down my face even before I’d properly woken up. As each of the previous day’s triumphs were relived so the heroes were paraded on the breakfast TV sofa. Also, as I’ve travelled to the country on several occasions I was so, so proud for Jamaica. I can just imagine how their sprinters’ achievements were celebrated at home. I am in huge admiration of the respect that Usain Bolt and Johann Blake showed for other countries’ national anthems, even stopping TV interviews when the flags were raised. Both of them also sang their own anthem with unashamed pride, something I wish more of our athletes had managed.
Britain is truly great. The games and our achievements at them prove that. We exceed every reasonable expectation that we could have of ourselves. That is why we have such a proud history, why we are the leaders that we continue to be and why we hold a place in the world out of all proportion to our size and resources.
That our athletes and those who train and organise them can achieve so much sheds a very harsh light on those that now run our government and economy. Today we are let down by leaders who are pygmies compared to the giants that have made Britain great.
The British people can achieve the unbelievable. All we need are the leaders to show us the way. If we replaced the 29 members of the cabinet with our 29 gold medal winners I think we might do far better.
God Save The Queen!
I think the Queen is a wonderful woman who deserves enormous respect. Disrespect her and you disrespect the whole of Britain. The Royal Family is an excellent institution that is fantastic value for money as well as having proved itself to be the most effective head of state in the world.
I’d like someone to point out a better model for government than ours.
It’s far, far from perfect but I see nothing better anywhere else.
Look at the US, even with a written constitution and elected President who’s obviously a pretty cool guy as an individual, Guantanamo is still open, the DEA and CIA are international gangsters, corruption, mass incarceration and human rights abuse prevail.
No one is a fiercer critic of our government than me but there’s no better alternative anywhere that I see.
British Spirit
Obama The Man
History
My thoughts here will be few and far between now. My focus is on CLEAR and I am learning to moderate my opinion because I have chosen a single issue. If I strike out in a particular direction I divert my own and others’ energy from the cause.
On Obama though, no man or woman of intelligence can fail to see the progress that he represents, whatever our particular grumbles about him. However cynical your view of politics, he is better than what has gone before.
So I am very pleased to see his power re-invigorated and his very well-judged presence in Britain. Whatever the pallava and retinue around him, his personal truth shines through and, my God, we need leadership in this difficult and challenging world.
I’ll be here until further notice: www.clear-uk.org
The Most Immoral Man In Britain
Douglas Murray is an abomination. He is deeply, deeply corrupt, perverse and evil. I have long despised his disgusting attitudes but his perfomance on Question Time tonight was shameful. The BBC gives him an extraordinary amount of air time. Who is he doing what favours for? In the past year I have made four complaints about his behaviour on televison but, of course, the BBC complaints system, as so many know, is a self-serving deception and worse than useless.
The sickest joke of all is that Murray is the director of the Centre For Social Cohesion. There is no more divisive man in Britain.
