Welcome to ukcia

UKCIA is an archive site of information about cannabis. If this is your first time here, please read the introduction. The site is undergoing a major codingre-write and there is a lot to do! If you find any broken links etc, please let us know via the contact button above.

Cannabis Information

The government's policy of prohibition depends on ignorance and fear and there has been a huge amount of hype, misinformation and downright lies put about in support of it. The best defence against all this is the truth, so UKCIA aims to tell the truth about cannabis, warts and all.

Newsblog

Newsblog

20th May 2012

The BBC - the world's least bad broadcaster - maybe The BBC can never simply report on cannabis issues without adding government approved danger warnings from experts, even when these warnings aren't actually true. And then there's BBC3, truly awful TV talking about drugs in a shallow way and telling you it's what you want.

UKCIA Research Library

The UKCIA research library contains some of the most important articles and reports on subjects relating to cannabis. Use the search facility to find articles of interest.

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Search The Site

UKCIA is a huge site and contains a lot of information about cannabis, search and you will find!

Activism Section

Activism

The cannabis law reform campaign and UKCIA's Toke pure campaign.

Library Section

Library

Find your way around UKCIA for people who don't like search engines.

Politics section

Politics

The important laws at the heart of prohibition. Policitians are the problem.

Culture Section

Culture

Humans have used cannabis since the dawn of recorded history - and probably for a long time before that. What does cannabis do? How is it used? What are the dangers?

Medical

Cannabis the medicine

Industrial uses

Hemp

The industrial uses of hemp. Cannabis is so much more than "dope", it has a massive number of industrial uses and perhaps this is the real reason for its prohibition.