Tim Worstall

At The Register.
Laying into this Reefer Madness thing.

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The 21-year-old former cannabis user started coming to Kidswell park in Maidenhead to smoke when she was about 12. Cannabis use has become so normal in the quiet Berkshire town, that smoking a spliff in public is almost acceptable.
Her friend, Calum, is a case in point: “I skinned up in McDonald’s the other day, and […]

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The report said that “to prevent one case of schizophrenia in men aged 20 to 24 about 5,000 men would have to be prevented from ever smoking cannabis”.

So 5,000 people must be so scared by the threat of an extra three years in jail, (ie, 15,000 man years of jail) to […]

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The Government has confirmed it will strengthen the laws against cannabis by reclassifying the drug from class C to class B.
For Fucks Sake! Fools, morons!
A wise man once wrote this:
In Oliver Cromwell’s eloquent words, "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken" about the course you and President […]

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This I find hilarious: both funny Ha-Ha and funny as in my God I want to start measuring people for lamp posts. 

A convicted drugs criminal has escaped an order to have up to £4.5 million of his assets confiscated because no legal aid barrister would take on the case.
More than 30 barristers from London, Leeds […]

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Herbal cannabis grown in Britain has overtaken imported Moroccan resin and now accounts for 85 per cent of the cannabis seized from users, according to private Home Office research presented to the Advisory Committee.

Does wonders for the trade balance.

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As Gordon Brown moves to consolidate the cannabis trade further under the control of organized crime,….

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Bloody right:

The moral and practical case for controlling a market that has defied suppression for a third of a century is overwhelming. Drugs such as cannabis, cocaine and heroin must somehow be distributed within the ambit of legal and medical regulation, as they were to an extent before 1971 and are slowly being elsewhere. Finding […]

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So Brown is likely to ignore the advice and reclassify cannabis. Fool, but then we knew that. This rather surprises though.

The experts heard evidence that 85% of what is available on the streets is herbal cannabis - two to three times stronger than the previously ubiquitous imported Moroccan cannabis resin.

I’m a couple of decades away […]

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Well, maybe:

Fears have been raised over the safety of high-caffeine energy drinks after an inquest heard they could have brought on a fatal heart attack.

The bloke had an underlying condition and was drinking four cans of Red Bull a shift. Each can has about the same caffeine as a cup of coffee: it’s nothingto do […]

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Mr Johnson said: "I have thought about this for a little bit, but I haven’t looked at all the evidence and talked to the police about it in a way I would before giving more than an extempore answer.
"However, I do think there is a case when cannabis is being used to alleviate severe and […]

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Yet wherever you live, there is no way back from crack, the ultimate dead-end drug. You either stop taking it, or you die.

Where I live, out here in the real world, stopping taking crack is known as a way back.

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As you may know, I hold no brief for either Ken or various Green types, but this seems entirely sensible:

Ken Livingstone came under fresh pressure last night when it emerged that his allies in the Green Party are calling for the legalisation of ecstasy.

Actually, the full policy:

Miss Berry’s manifesto, launched last week, advocates "decriminalising recreational […]

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It would appear that this is what we have come to.
Sigh.

Our eldest son, Will, once a highly academic, sporty, handsome, smiling young boy, began smoking cannabis at school with friends. He was fourteen. He soon began to change into someone we scarcely recognised, who stole to fund the habit that began to consume him. Pleas […]

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This is going to make things interesting:

The Government’s drug advisory body is set to recommend that cannabis should remain a Class C drug, creating a dilemma for Gordon Brown who has indicated he wants to clamp down on use of the drug.

Which way is he going to jump?

But the Advisory Council on the Misuse of […]

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I’ve been deperately trying to get my head around Dean Baker’s proposals for reducing the costs of pharmaceuticals.
Essentially, as I understand it, do not allow patents on drugs. Instead, pay development costs directly from tax revenue and thus the drugs will be sold at marginal cost, rather than having to bear the costs of their […]

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So, congratulations Gordon: a line of cocaine (on Dec07 street prices) is now cheaper than half a pint cider.

The Hansard Fraser points to says cocaine is £40 a gramme. A half pint of cider, well….

Sainsbury’s has come under fire for slashing the price of cider to 26p a pint, fuelling concern over the role of […]

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We won’t end this violence by jailing celebrities or middle-class users. The only way to take back our streets is to wrest back control of the drugs from the criminals, by legalising and regulating their trade.
Imagine if you could buy coke from Boots. Or the aptly named Superdrug. That would drain the glamour from it […]

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Cannabis use among young people has fallen since the Government downgraded it to a Class C drug, according to figures published yesterday.

Of course, the Government thinks that cannabis should be upgraded back to Class B in order to reduce the number of young who take it….
 

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The problem has not been extended licensing itself, but its often baffling application. I don’t recall, for example, widespread public demand for supermarkets and off-licences to sell booze around the clock.

Well, the widespread public demand is surely in the fact that people are buying and drinking the stuff, which is what you’re complaining about, isn’t […]

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