Drugs policy

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• Afroman's Because I Got High gets pro-marijuana remake

  17 Oct 2014: Remix of the 2001 No 1 song promotes medical benefits and crime-reduction claims before drug-legalisation votes in several US states

• China bans actors with a history of drug use from film or TV roles

  9 Oct 2014: A state crackdown leading to several arrests is aimed at removing actors who ‘corrupt the social atmosphere’ , writes Ben Child

• There's little mystery to this mass grave: Mexico's drug war is killing children

  7 Oct 2014: Laura Carlsen: Young people are now targeted by the very people sworn to protect them. If this isn’t the ultimate duplicity of abusive law enforcement, what is?

• 'I like the way MDMA gives you a deep sense of connection to your friends'

  5 Oct 2014:

  An anonymous drug user reveals why he regularly takes cocaine and ecstasy, and says it is time to talk honestly about the pleasures - and perils - of drugs

• Dark net markets: the eBay of drug dealing

  5 Oct 2014:

  Jamie Bartlett: Dark net markets are a hidden corner of the internet where illegal substances can be traded. Could moving dealings from street gangs to online traders cut the risks to users?

• British drugs survey 2014: drug use is rising in the UK – but we're not addicted

  5 Oct 2014: Nearly one in three British adults has taken an illegal substance and a fifth of those still do so, with 40% of drug takers in the higher echelons of society

• Britain divided: how we really feel about drugs

  5 Oct 2014: Andrew Anthony: the Observer’s groundbreaking survey on recreational drug use shows it spans all social classes and is as much a part of modern life as food banks and farmers’ markets

• Tony Abbott: ‘I have no problem with the medical use of cannabis’

  17 Sep 2014: Prime minister backs legalisation of medical marijuana in letter to Alan Jones as NSW and Victoria move to relax laws

• Medical marijuana moves closer to becoming legal in NSW

  16 Sep 2014:

  Mike Baird says NSW police will be allowed to exercise discretion not to charge terminally ill adults who use cannabis

• Decriminalisation of drugs for personal use under review by Lib Dems

  8 Sep 2014:

  Policy paper due for discussion at next month's party conference also proposes an open market in cannabis

• Snoop and Pharrell team up on promo for marijuana

  8 Sep 2014: Pair record track for one of California’s legal weed suppliers

• 'Ice' gains in popularity despite overall methamphetamine use staying stable

  3 Sep 2014: Victorian report finds crystal meth in Australia has become more pure over the past two years

• Medical marijuana to undergo clinical trials in Victoria

  28 Aug 2014: Health minister David Davis makes announcement days after Labor leader Daniel Andrews vows to legalise drug if elected

• Medicinal cannabis and the caregiving community giving it away for free

  15 Aug 2014:

  Sarah Whitehead: Marijuana legislation is being relaxed all over the world – but not in the UK, where the most unlikely of horticulturalists are taking the law into their own hands

• Drugs minister calls for legalising cannabis for medicinal use

  13 Aug 2014:

  Norman Baker will say in a letter to Jeremy Hunt that cannabis would help relieve symptoms of a range of medical conditions

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