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More trouble in the Church

December 19th, 2012 · 4 Comments

Smugglers use canon to shoot cannabis over US border Blimey. I knew that the religions were getting a bit short of cash. But how did they use thje canon? Get him to preach it over or something?

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Naughty Daily Mail subs

December 10th, 2012 · 9 Comments

Drug users could escape ANY criminal penalties: MPs consider legalising heroine and crack as they plan Portugal visit to see soft-touch regime in action Sigh. Why should Lara Croft have to be legalised?

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Let’s just legalise drugs shall we?

September 19th, 2012 · 54 Comments

Three consecutive stories spotted on the Telegraph’s world news pages. 17 bodies found dumped along road in Mexico Nine men found hanging from bridge in Mexico Mexico parades captured Gulf drug cartel boss It really is about time that we gave up on this war on drugs thing. Sure, perhaps the entire population shooting up [...]

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Plod can be stupid

September 12th, 2012 · 11 Comments

Penalties for growing and selling cannabis must be toughened because a surge in the trade is driving up shootings and gang-related violence, a senior police officer has warned. Sigh. Violence and gang w3arfare are driven by the illegality of the product. In the absence of a possible appeal to the law of the land then [...]

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On Eva Rausing

July 12th, 2012 · 11 Comments

Harry Mount says that it’s all about lots of money leading to boredom and thus drugs. I say tosh. That someone has been ingesting industrial quantities of drugs for decades and then dies in middle age shows quite how non-dangerous drugs are.

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Just say no to catnip

June 4th, 2012 · 3 Comments

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Idiots on drugs

April 30th, 2012 · 20 Comments

A new report warns that the commercial cultivation of cannabis poses a “significant risk” to Britain linked to burglary, violence and the use of guns. The number of farms detected has more than doubled in recent years to reach almost 8,000, with many now set up in homes or flats rather than factories in order [...]

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That sleeping pill killing everyone thing

February 29th, 2012 · 3 Comments

Given the success of my last foray into this story I fihnd this interesting: The consensus among health professionals yesterday was that there is something about people who take sleeping pills that makes them likely to die earlier – but it’s almost certainly a complex combination of factors. If they need pills to sleep, that [...]

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Snigger

February 27th, 2012 · 3 Comments

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Numbers about drugs

February 10th, 2012 · 11 Comments

Mexico seizes $4 billion in methamphetamine Rilly? The sheer scale of the bust announced late Wednesday drew expressions of amazement from meth experts. The 15 tonne haul could have supplied 13 million doses on the streets of the United States. Umm, what? $4 billion divided by 13 million is $307 a dose. That sounds a [...]

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George Osborne and cocaine

September 13th, 2011 · 7 Comments

As I understand it the allegation is that George took cocaine when a young man. Umm, yes? Rich young thing about town takes cocaine in 1990s Britain? That’s it?  

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Drugs Shock Horror!

July 17th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Clubbers don’t care whether a drugs is legal or not, just how it makes them feel, research shows My word, that is a surprise, isn’t it? We would just never have guessed this from the existence of vibrant markets in, easy supply of, high demand for, heroin, ecstasy, cocaine, pot, hash, crack, LSD, ‘rooms and [...]

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You what?

June 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments

But this is not just a war between narco-cartels. Juarez has imploded into a state of criminal anarchy – the cartels, acting like any corporation, have outsourced violence to gangs affiliated or unaffiliated with them, who compete for tenders with corrupt police officers. The army plays its own mercurial role. “Cartel war” does not explain [...]

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The law is an ass: this time it’s the drug laws

May 3rd, 2011 · 10 Comments

Now, certain prohibitionists like to make much – too much – of the possible impact of cannabis on mental health. This, they say, is sufficient cause to ban the drug and punish its users “for their own good”. Since it has been moved back up to class B, against expert advice, the maximum penalty for [...]

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More drug hysteria

April 11th, 2011 · 10 Comments

Cocaine usage is up: Cocaine is the second most popular drug in Britain, after cannabis, with its use increasing markedly in the past decade from 0.6% of 16- to 59-year-olds reporting use to the British Crime Survey to 2.4% in 2009-10. This is equivalent to nearly 800,000 people reporting that they have used it within [...]

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You may not like this fact but markets will out

February 6th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Indeed, I don’t like the effects of this all that much either: but I’ll still note that markets will out. More than 50 drugs are now in short supply because doses which were intended for NHS patients are being sold to speculators who sell them in Europe for a profit. Experts blame rogue pharmacists and [...]

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I’m shocked, shocked

January 8th, 2011 · No Comments

Drugs were “readily available” at global financial company JP Morgan, the Old Bailey has heard.

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Predictions are very difficult

January 7th, 2011 · 2 Comments

PLAYBOY: Isn’t cocaine the currently fashionable drug in Hollywood? NICHOLSON: I see it around. PLAYBOY: Have you tried it? NICHOLSON: Yeah, it’s basically an upper, but it doesn’t seem to do too much to me. I don’t think it’ll be fashionable for long, because it’s expensive and we’re in a depression; whether the world chooses [...]

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Avastin and Lucentis: what a glorious tale!

January 3rd, 2011 · 6 Comments

This is really rather funny, at least for those who have my own rather lugubrious sense of humour about matters economic. So there’s two drugs, Avastin and Lucentis. They’re really rather similar: almost exactly the same you might say. However, Avastin is the one licensed for use on bowel cancer and Lucentis the one licenced [...]

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The problem with this world government and international law stuff

December 19th, 2010 · 9 Comments

Now maybe legalisation of all drugs isn’t the right step to take: regular readers will know that my view is that it is but perhaps I’m wrong. But similarly, maybe legalisation is the answer. And what we;d really like to do, if anyone or any country is brave enough, is for someone to actually legalise [...]

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