UKCIA Library

Resources

News database
A searchable data base of news reports prior to 2008.

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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Forum
Visit our forum and tell us your thoughts

Links
Go away here

A female flower showing crystals of THC on the leaves

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.