Julian Critchley has come out and said what those in charge of UK drug policy won’t admit: prohibition doesn’t work Danny Kushlick guardian.co.uk, Wednesday August 13 2008 The former head of the government’s UK anti-drug co-ordination unit (UKADCU), Julian Critchley, posted to BBC Home Affairs correspondent Mark Easton’s blog last week, The War on Drugs, […]

The Sidney Morning Herald 13/07/2008 Australia Cannabis growing offers pot of gold for farmers FRANK WALKER NSW farmers could be growing cannabis by spring with the approval of the Iemma Government – but this marijuana can’t be smoked to get high. It will be a variety of the cannabis plant containing tiny levels of tetrahydrocannabinol […]

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Peter Popham The Independent Saturday 12 Jul 2008 Rastafarians have always regarded Ethiopia as the promised land, but Italy could rank a close second after its Supreme Court ruled that smoking or possessing cannabis is not a criminal offence but a religious act when the person doing it is a Rastafarian. Last year, the same […]

A recent court ruling highlights the impacts of the new narcotics law. Although he had harvested more than 10 kg of cannabis leaves, an Austrian man was not sentenced and the public prosecutor recently dismissed the case – with a two-year probation period. According to the new law the prosecutor must refrain from prosecution if […]

Takiwasi is proud to announce the official decision of the Peruvian Government to declare the knowledge and traditional uses of Ayahuasca as a cultural patrimony of the nation, product of a dossier realized by Dr. Rosa Giove, M.D., head of Takiwasi Center, Tarapoto-Peru for the National Institute of Culture of Peru. We hope it will […]

Source: DURRU BLOGSPOT 29 July 2008