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About
our organisation, Wired In |
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In the first document, I describe our aims,
achievements to date, and our Charter. In the second document,
I tell you our story, and introduce you to our core team and
wider team of consultants, as well as our Advisory Board [the
prof speaks out] |
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This
time next week... |
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Yesterday was the worst day I've had in a long
while ... my world was spinning, stomach spasming. I was losing
control. What should I do? It was at that moment I made the best
decision I've ever made ... [I did it my way, blog, UK] |
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NGO
statements to the CND thematic debate |
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Unlike in previous years, NGOs were successful
in being granted access to the plenary session to deliver statements
to the assembled government representatives. The topic for the
thematic debate was the review of progress in international drug
control in the 10 years since the 1998 UNGASS, and the NGO contributions
enlivened what was an otherwise bland debate [IDPC] |
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The
only message being sent is of cowardice and stupidity |
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This pseduo-tough move to reclassify cannabis
flies in the face of the science and delivers a boost to the
illicit drugs market [Comment, Guardian, UK] |
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Miserable
re-classification saga enters its final furlong |
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So this is how it’s probably going to
play out ... [TDPF, UK] |
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Don't
criminalise my students for smoking cannabis, Mr Brown |
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Legalise it, classify it or reclassify it?
Everyone has an opinion on cannabis. Chris Game says his students
shouldn't be criminalised if they're ever tempted to use it [Birmingham
Post, UK] |
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New
research highlights effects of cannabis on hyperbole |
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As Gordon Brown apparently prepares to ignore
his own expert advisers and side with the tabloids in rehashing
our cannabis laws, he has well and truly jumped aboard the skunk-panic
bandwagon - declaring on GMTV this morning that it is 'lethal'
[TDPF, UK] |
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Marijuana
Withdrawal Syndrome: A Bibliography |
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A sampling of the growing medical and psychiatric
literature on this aspect of drug use and abuse [Addiction Inbox,
USA] |
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Prohibition,
public health and wellbeing |
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Transform has argued for nearly a decade that
prohibition, at the least, must be subject to a thoroughgoing
impact assessment - health and wellbeing, social and financial
costs and benefits must be accounted for and made publicly available
[TDPF, UK] |
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Drug
and Alcohol Misuse in the Criminal Justice System Conference |
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Power Point presentations [PHRN, UK] |
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A
report from the Drug and Alcohol Misuse in the Criminal Justice
System Conference |
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“Control myths” surrounding drug
use in prison leads to risky injecting practices in prisons and
high rates of drug overdose of recently released prisoners [Connections,
UK] |
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Working
for everyone: building community confidence in the criminal
justice system |
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Jack Straw has given a lecture at the Royal
Society of Arts on public confidence in the criminal justice
system [Ministry of Justice, UK] |
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Albert
Hofmann |
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Albert Hofmann, who died on Tuesday aged 102,
synthesised lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938 and became
the first person in the world to experience a full-blown acid
trip [Telegraph, UK] |
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Man
arrested with LSD taped to his legs |
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Police estimated that the total street value
of the drugs to be more than $100,000 [The Age, Australia] |
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Why
Are There So Many Marijuana Arrests in New York City? |
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How can it be that after the state of New York
decriminalized possession of personal use quantities of marijuana,
New York City police still manage to rack up tens of thousands
of marijuana arrests every year -- including 33,000 arrests just
in 2006? [Drug Law blog, USA] |
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Virtual
world therapeautic for addicts: UH study shows |
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Patients in therapy to overcome addictions
have a new arena to test their coping skills -- the virtual world
[EurekAlert, USA] |
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Prevention
of harm from alcohol consumption in rural and remote communities |
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Evidence shows that alcohol consumption is
disproportionately higher in rural and remote regions of Australia
compared with metropolitan areas. Text
of the seminar [Drug Info, Australia] |
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Blast
hits Afghan anti-drugs team |
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A suicide attack on a poppy-eradication team
in eastern Afghanistan has killed 18 Afghans, including seven
civilians, and wounded 31 more [Al Jazeera] |
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