Recent Posts Tagged With 'gordon brown'

• PM hears case for Impact Assessment of drug laws

  Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 07:21 in drugs, prime minister, gordon brown, transform, impact assessment

  Prime Minister Gordon Brown has held an important meeting with drugs policy campaigning group Transform, and Lembit Öpik, Liberal Democrat MP for Montgomeryshire to hear the case for an impact assessment of drug laws.Danny Kushlick, Head of Policy a...

• MP calls for impact assessment of drugs policy in Prime Minister’s Questions

  Posted on Wednesday March 25th, 2009 at 10:14 in drugs, gordon brown, prime minister's questions, illegal drugs, cba, pmqs

  In today’s Prime Minister’s Questions Lembit Opik MP requested a meeting with the PM to propose a full impact assessment of current drug policy. His full question was: “A new European Commission report on drugs shows that despite prohibition ...

• Millions quit cannabis following reclassification

  Posted on Wednesday May 7th, 2008 at 13:52 in cannabis, gordon brown, reclassification

  After listening to Jacqui Smith MP talking about skunk cannabis in Parliament today millions of young people have decided to quit using cannabis and drink 3 litre bottles of white-lightning cider instead. Across the housing estates of Britain vulnera...

• Miserable re-classification saga enters its final furlong

  Posted on Tuesday April 29th, 2008 at 17:15 in cannabis, Regulation, gordon brown, bad science, acpo, acmd, reclassification, reefer madness

  So this is how it’s probably going to play out. At some point after Thursday’s local election, potentially making use of the ‘burying bad news’ cover the election aftermath will provide, the Government will release the ACMD report that will ...

• New research highlights effects of cannabis on hyperbole

  Posted on Tuesday April 29th, 2008 at 07:51 in cannabis, gordon brown, reefer madness

  As Gordon Brown apparently prepares to ignore his own expert advisers and side with the tabloids in rehashing our cannabis laws, he has well and truly jumped aboard the skunk-panic bandwagon - declaring on GMTV this morning that it is 'lethal'.On the...

• Cannabis making politicians go all weird. Again.

  Posted on Tuesday April 8th, 2008 at 14:36 in cannabis, gordon brown, bad science, skunk, drug panic, acmd, reclassification

  Just what is it about cannabis that makes certain politicians act so bizarrely and disconnect from reality is such spectacular fashion? And this is without even smoking it (although actually, most of them have). Moreover, there appears to be a sort o...

• ACMD cannabis report update.....

  Posted on Thursday April 3rd, 2008 at 15:45 in bbc, cannabis, gordon brown, acmd

  So...on the announcement itself, well it comes as no surprise as regular readers will know. The details leaked to the BBC were scant and Downing street has hurriedly denied that this is the whole story. It probably isn't.I fully expect the ACMD repor...

• ACMD and cannabis. no suprises then.

  Posted on Wednesday April 2nd, 2008 at 17:33 in cannabis, gordon brown, acmd, reclassification

  As predictedSo Brown, over to you....

• When all else fails: blame Amy Winehouse

  Posted on Monday March 10th, 2008 at 05:35 in cocaine, un, amy winehouse, gordon brown, antonio costa, cnd, unodc, incb

  This weekend saw various high profile figures, including Maria Antonio Costa, executive director of the UNODC and the Prime Minister,Gordon Brown jump on the condemn drug using celebrities bus, Costa going beyond simple condemnation to directly link...

• Plans to reclassify cannabis obscure real debate

  Posted on Tuesday February 12th, 2008 at 14:44 in cannabis, gordon brown, classification, acmd, reclassification

  So Transform have been in The Economist, The Guardian, Take a Break, and Socialist Worker within a fortnight. At least no one can accuse us of being partisan or not having an equal opportunities media strategy. Below is my effort on cannabis reclassi...