31 July 2014

By William Patey, British ambassador to Afghanistan from 2010-2012 25 June 2014 When Tony Blair deployed British troops in Afghanistan, ending the illicit production and supply of opium was cited as a key objective. In 2001 the prime minister linked heroin use in the UK with opium cultivation in Afghanistan: “The arms the Taliban buy […]

13 August 2014 By Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent Norman Baker will say in a letter to Jeremy Hunt that cannabis would help relieve symptoms of a range of medical conditions

May 21st, 2014 By Timothy Alexander Guzman* The first country to defy the ‘War on Drugs’ by legalizing marijuana is Uruguay. It was described as a revolutionary act against the prohibition of a plant that is used by millions worldwide under the former Marxist guerilla and political prisoner who is now the President of Uruguay […]

By Tina Griego 30 July 2014 In these, the curious, infant days of the state’s legalization of recreational marijuana, of shiny dispensaries and touch-screen ordering and suburban parties where joints are passed like appetizers over granite countertops, no one would notice the duplex. Plain brick, patchy grass behind chain link, it appears weary, resigned to […]

August 6, 2014 Austrian cannabis activists have started a parliamentary initiative to legalize cannabis in Austria on Wednesday. Initiated by „Legalize! Oesterreich“ and supported by the Hemp Institute, Austrian voters can now sign an online initiative on the website of the Austrian parliament which is obliged to discuss the matter.

The party also wants to increase the use of medicinal cannabis in the national health sector 4 August 2014

By LAWRENCE DOWNES AUG. 2, 2014 In January, Colorado defied the federal government and stepped with both feet into the world of legal recreational marijuana, where no state had gone before.