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Resources
The
UKCIA newsblog
Comment
on cannabis current affairs
News
database
A searchable data base of news reports prior to 2008.
Research
database
Factual information about cannabis and it's effects on health and
society
Law
library
The
full text of the most important legislation regarding drugs in the
UK
Archive
Media
reporting of the cannabis debate
showing examples of bias and "strange" reporting
BBC
Audio and video libary - cannabis reports
BBC
website
The
cannabis trade
The BBC at its worst
Press
reporting of police raids on grow ops
September
2006
Web
censoring
web filtering is being used in libraries, schools and colleges to
filter websites concerned with illegal drugs
Government
Government
consuts on the future of it's drugs strategy
September 2007
Reclassification
What was reclassification all about, if anything?
Reclasification
to class C - 2002
UKCIA comment - cannabis
is not crack
Issues
Contamination
Grit
weed -the story
Strength
Is cananbis 30 times stronger than it used to be?
Cannabis
and psychosis
an examination of the claims that cannabis use is linked to
mental health problems - a part of the "Risks" section
of Culture
Open
letter to SANE mental health charity from Helen, the parent
of a young man who has schizophrenia
Soap
bar
Contaminated, polluted product of prohibition.
Cannabis
videos
Music, politics and campaigning
Conferences
HIT
conference - "Second perspectives on cananbis"
February 2005
Conference notes
Cannabis
and mental health conference
Institute of psychiatry, London, Dec 2nd - 3rd.
Abstracts
UKCIA
insert to delegates pack
Second
cannabis and mental health confernece
Kings College, University of London May 1st - 2nd 2007
Review
Abstracts
Cannabis
: Should it be decriminalised?
Independent
On Sunday debate
Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre Westminster
11th December 1997
The
campaign of 1998 - 2006
What
you did
Smokey Bears picnics, Cannabis Carnivals
Medical
Cannabis Awareness Day
24th May 2006
LCA
a cannabis political party which ran from 1999 - 2007. Here is an
archive of speeches made at the annual conferences held at the UEA
in Norwich. MP3
format - download or listen live
2001 conference
Includes
speeches by Eddie Ellison, Roger Warren Evans and Caroline Coon
2002
conference
2003
conference
Includes
speech from Biz Ivol
2005
conference
2006
LCA conference
Posters
and leaflets
Downloads
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female flower showing crystals of THC on the leaves
Issue:
Smoking
The
British Lung foundation has published a report called "A
smoking gun" about the health risks of smoking cannabis.
UKCIA
would welcome a factual information campaign about the possible
dangers of using cannabis, indeed we acknowledge some of the points
made in the report in our "How
to smoke cannabis" and "Risks"
sections. UKCIA doesn't claim that cannabis is totally harmless,
but because of prohibition scare after scare of serious dangers
have happened, most of which have been shown to be false. It's been
like shouting "wolf", many people simply don't believe
government warnings anymore.
Also
because of prohibition safer ways of smoking, such as water pipes
(bongs) which filter many of the dangerous tars are themselves dangerous
things to have because of the risk of arrest and their use is generally
discouraged in government "educational" material. UKCIA
is running a campaign called Toke
pure to encourage safer ways to use cannabis.
Not
only that but
we point out that smoking isn't the only way to use cannabis - see
our section "How to eat cannabis"
- but again, prohibition makes this less appealing because of uncertain
strengths and contaminated supplies.
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If
cannabis is dangerous then we need clear truthful information
and properly labeled and graded supplies. We need to free
users of the risks posed by the illegal supply side and have
workable laws to protect the vulnerable. This is totally imposible
whilst cannabis remains an illegal, uncontrolled drug.
All
we've had is the downgrading
of cannabis to the "less illegal" class C; how is
that going to help with any of this?
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