Psychedelic drugs such as LSD, MDMA and ketamine show promise in the treatment of mental health problems. The crossover between illicit drugs and medicines is nothing new. Opiates like heroin and morphine can be our most effective medical painkillers, yet cause immense harm to individuals and society. Some drugs…
Tag Archive for cannabis
Druglink article 2014 – Joint ventures by David Ader
As both the medical and recreational marijuana businesses in North America grow apace, David Ader explores the pot at the end of the rainbow. With Colorado and Washington’s experiments with recreational cannabis legalisation filling acres of newspaper space, the continued rapid development of the medical marijuana…
Druglink article 1998 – High times, low company: Global drug trading since the 1960s by Roger Lewis
We’ve come a long way since Howard Marks – the drug trade in the nineties is nasty, brutal and short. Here one of Europe’s foremost trafficking experts outlines how and why this is. High times, low company: Global drug trading…
Druglink article 1998 – Cannabis cures all? by David Jackson
Many drug services are now perfectly at ease with collecting urine samples from clients and discussing the results with them. Research shows that up to three in five opiate users take cannabis on a regular basis. Could there be another…
Druglink article 1998 – What’s in a sausage? The roots of cannabis prohibition by Harry Shapiro
The law reform lobby has been revitalised in the nineties supported by elements within the body politic, the media, medicine, the police and the judiciary and an unknown but growing proportion of the public. However, most governments, international agencies –…
Druglink article 2014 – 2007: Plant warfare by Max Daly
Druglink published one of the very early articles on cannabis farms in March 2007 written by Max Daly, then the Druglink editor and now a freelance journalist. It is reproduced below: Police are shutting down cannabis farms on a daily…
Druglink article 1997 – Drought warning: rapid assessment in practice by Jim Sherval and Ian Grant
Reports of a cannabis drought in 1996 prompted the authors to carry out a rapid assessment of the situation in the Lothians. Interviews with drug workers and drug users confirmed the rumours as well as a switch to amphetamine and…
Druglink factsheet 1997 – Skunk
What is skunk? Why has it become popular? What are the effects of skunk? Factsheet – skunk (PDF)
Druglink news 1995 – Cannabis for cancer patients
As of September 1995, named patients can now be prescribed dronabinol a major active constituent of cannabis to alleviate nausea associated with chemotherapy Cannabis for cancer patients (PDF)
Druglink article 1991 – Powers of arrest for cannabis by Geoff Monaghan
After over ten years, the law on cannabis is once again under review – but from the police point of view, a ‘parking ticket’ approach could have major repercussions. Powers of arrest for cannabis (PDF)