On 11th November CCJS held an audience with Professor David Nutt chaired by our director, Richard Garside. You can watch it here.

crimeandjustice.org
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An Olympic judo star was convicted yesterday of being part of a £50million drug gang.

James Waithe, 47, who represented Barbados at the Olympics and England in the Commonwealth Games, contributed to the gang's turnover of around £1million a week from cocaine sales.

telegraph.co.uk
mailonsunday.co.uk
itn.co.uk

POLICE said Thursday they had arrested seven men, including Mozambicans, for suspected involvement in drug trafficking.

They said the men were caught with 1.4 tonnes of marijuana which they were transporting from Mozambique.

newzimbabwe.com

One of the primary reasons for NOT following Europe and the United States by introducing 'degree's of decriminalisation' for cannabis users has always been the governments inability to work out how to recoup the losses legalising cannabis would inevitably manifest upon big lobbying industries such as pharmaceuticals, petroleum and alcohol.

cannazine.co.uk

Nach einem erfolgreichen Pilotprojekt dürfen bestimmte Patienten im Scheba-Krankenhaus in Tel HaSchomer bei Tel Aviv ab sofort Marihuana rauchen. Das Krankenhaus hatte als erstes in Israel ein Protokoll zum medizinischen Umgang mit Marihuana entworfen.

israelnetz.com