Darryl Bickler is a co-founder of the Drug Equality Alliance and a former solicitor practicing in criminal law and human rights.Darryl has looked extremely closely at the 1971 Misuse of Drugs act and here he explains why ‘drug use is not illegal’. The eradication of unapproved recreational drug use is arguably an impossible task. It is also unnecessary, irrational and unfair. Under the current regime of prohibition, an arbitrary decision has been made to encourage and sanctify certain drug users, while criminalising others. The Misuse of Drugs Act exists to instruct the government on dealing with ‘dangerous or otherwise harmful…
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In the second episode of Cannabis: What’s the Harm, James explores the hidden world of organised crime linked to the supply of cannabis in the UK , following a police drug squad and the UK Border Agency as they target gangs and smugglers. He meets the casualties of the drugs trade, including a 14-year-old addict who has convictions for burglary to fund his habit and a Vietnamese teenager smuggled into Britain by lorry to work in British cannabis farms to supply the huge demand. Ex-EastEnders star James Alexandrou was caught smoking cannabis by the tabloids when he left the soap.…
The ‘Gumby’ method of making bubble hash is a cheap alternative compared with expensive bubble bag extraction kits that range in price from around £65 for a 1 gallon 4 bag set to over £300 for a 20 gallon 8 bag set.The video shows how the ‘Gumby’ method can produce great hash using cheap and easy to find items.
In the first of two programmes, James Alexandrou looks at the effects of the drug on the streets of Britain , meeting a 17-year-old who smokes weed with his parents and a mum-of-three who uses cannabis to keep her emotions in check. He meets people who are growing cannabis illegally for themselves and goes out on patrol with a police drug squad as they clamp down on large-scale cannabis growers. He also travels to California, the first state in America to license cannabis for medicinal use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3woMCHn0o4A Click here for Cannabis: What’s the Harm Episode 2
Nearly 50 years ago I made THC hash oil in Nepal, that today some think is a new innovative technique I used Iso alcohol and ether, first cooking up hashish resin using kerosene stoves, outside in my yard, being careful not to get the mix too hot, I used a thermometer to keep the temperature below what would destroy the THC, after simmering I filtered the mix through nylon cloth, this liquid I let cool and then introduced ether to help the alcohol evaporate, when I introduced the ether to the alcohol resin mix flames from Shiva were seen. I…
Speaking to Hot Press, pro-cannabis campaigner and Mayor of Roscommon Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan talks drugs, recounts his run-ins with the law , and explains why he’s in with a good chance of winning a seat in the upcoming general election.In a remarkably open and honest interview in Hot Press, controversial pro-cannabis campaigner and current Mayor of Roscommon Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan claims that the legalisation of cannabis is worth approximately €1.1bn to the Irish economy: “I’ll be very quick to tell them that I estimate it’s worth about €1.1bn that would go in very rapidly to our economy if they legalise…
The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill if enacted would effectively emasculate and by-pass the expert Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). This would allow the government free reign to control various drug users, without the need for the statutory consultation process nor any of the required scientific expertise being present on the council.Sections 149 and 150 to the Bill entirely negate the whole ethos of the legislation that sought to bring expert evidence to the heart of the drug user classification system. Section 149 empowers the government to bring any drug [user] under control without any consultation,…
The Real Seed Company is a group of collectors dedicated to releasing traditional connoisseur cannabis cultivars in their pure, unhybridised form. Global ecology has reached crisis point, and cannabis is no exception: the biodiveristy of one of the world’s most ancient crop plants is now under serious threat. Founded in 2007 in response to the damage being inflicted on top-end cannabis cultivars by prohibition, The Real Seed Company has taken an unprecedented step in the history of cannabis seed banks by offering an extensive and open catalogue of rare and authentic heirloom cannabis varities that can be owned by everyone.…
High Society, an exhibition newly mounted by the Wellcome Collection, is not (as anyone of my generation might suppose) a celebration of the work of Sinatra, Crosby and Grace Kelly , but a serious examination of the drugs known over the past ten millennia or so to have enhanced or modified the moods of man. Separated not only by the reach of time to ancient Assyria, Ninevah and Babylon, to ancient Greece and medieval Europe, but by such great oceans and transcontinental distances that they were all but literally worlds apart, a thousand cultures primitive and worldly-wise have turned to…
Waiting to Inhale examines the heated debate over marijuana and its use as medicine in the United States. Twelve states have passed legislation to protect patients who use medical marijuana. Yet opponents claim the medical argument is just a smokescreen for a different agenda– to legalize marijuana for recreation and profit. What claims are being made, and what are the stakes? Waiting to Inhale takes viewers inside the lives of patients who have been forever changed by illness—and parents who lost their children to addiction. Is marijuana really a gateway drug? What evidence is there to support the claim that…
