Pick of the Week: Sewel scandal, cannabis, and Home Office turmoil
Our top five stories this week, including the Lord Sewell scandal, possible cannabis reform and turmoil at the Home Office
Police commissioners offer fresh hope for cannabis reform
The devolution of crime strategy to police commissioners opens up a new avenue for cannabis reformer to secure change.
Fight for medicinal cannabis reaches the Lords
The Home Office predictably enforced the line, but yesterday’s cannabis debate in the Lords showed progress is being made
Comment: Forget the hysteria. Here are the facts about ‘cannabis psychosis’
Tiny numbers of young people are affected by the condition
What media reports on the new cannabis study don’t tell you
A hysterical media has leapt on a new study of cannabis use to prove its psychotic effects – but it actualy found many varieties of the drug are harmless
The Home Office admits it: Tough enforcement does not lower drug use
The most significant report on drugs the British government for forty years has been published. This could be the moment the tide turns.
Britain secretly decriminalised cannabis – and it’s a disaster
How a bit of under-the-table liberalism sucked even more young black and Asian kids into the criminal justice system
We’re on the verge of victory in the fight for medicinal cannabis
As Home Office minister Norman Baker calls for medicinal cannabis use to be made legal, Clear cannabis reform gives the inside story on a campaign that may be on the verge of victory
Brave New World: Even the UN is open to drug decriminalisation
The body set up to enforce the world’s drugs laws admits decriminalisation is an “alternative” to prohibition
Exclusive first look: The cannabis legalisation advert
Get an early look at Britain’s first ever ad campaign for the legalisation of cannabis
