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MAP - Cannabis - United Kingdom
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Media Awareness Project Drug News
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UK: Leicestershire Man Hopes Cannabis-Based Drug Will Ease
Leicester Mercury, 31 Aug 2010 - A man is paying hundreds of pounds for a cannabis-based drug to try and ease the agonising pain caused by multiple sclerosis. Andrew Cooper, from Ibstock, is about to begin taking the new drug, Sativex, the first cannabis-based medicine licensed for use by MS sufferers.
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UK: Column: Drink, Drugs and Uneasy Hypocrisy
The Guardian, 28 Aug 2010 - Alcohol Should Not Have a Special Status Among Narcotics. We Need to Toughen Up on Booze and Lighten Up on Other Drugs Have you ever wondered what an advert for cocaine might look like if illegal drugs were legalised? I'm looking at one now. An attractive young woman in an extravagant feathered hat and a low-cut dress with a foaming lace collar, curls tumbling prettily down over her forehead, is holding a bell-shaped tea glass three-quarters full of a brown liquid. Her arm is sheathed in a white elbow-length glove and her pinkie is extended. The marketing slogan is displayed in an oval plaque next to a vase of yellow roses: "Drink Coca-Cola, 5c."
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UK: U.K. Enlists Bans To Stop Narcotics
Wall Street Journal, 20 Aug 2010 - The U.K. is giving its law-enforcement authorities extra powers to fight a wave of new narcotics known as "legal highs." The drugs are often legal when they hit the market because authorities haven't yet seen and banned them. With names such as Meow Meow and NRG-1, the drugs have been popular in Europe. New synthetic cannabinoids that are similar to marijuana also have appeared widely in the U.S.
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UK: Prof Ian Gilmore: Legalise Heroin And Cocaine To Cut Crime And
Daily Mail, 17 Aug 2010 - Personal drug use should be legalised to cut crime and improve health, a top doctor has said. Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, the outgoing president of the Royal College of Physicians, suggested that relaxing the law on possessing substances such as heroin, cocaine and cannabis would not increase the number of addicts.
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UK: OPED: Drugs: The Problem Is More Than Just the Substances
The Observer, 08 Aug 2010 - Maria Lucia Karam, a Retired Brazilian Judge, Argues That Drugs Should Be Legalised - but Regulated It made big news last week when the Mexican president, Felipe Calderon, called for a reasoned debate about the failure of drug prohibition. In doing so, he joined his already outspoken predecessors Vicente Fox and Ernesto Zedillo, as well as other former Latin American presidents like Cesar Gaviria of Colombia and Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil. Latin American policymakers have learned that drug prohibition, more than the drugs themselves, is a problem. Prohibition of desire simply cannot work.
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