Great Britain
UK Advisory Council recommends banning “legal highs”
UK drug advisers have gathered information on a series of “legal highs” including the herb Salvia divinorum, but particularly a herbal smoking mixture called Spice and it recommends banning the latter.
Drug experts to urge ban on Spice ‘herbal high’
Great Britain’s government’s drug experts will tomorrow recommend banning Spice, a herbal smoking mixture thought to be as strong as some strains of skunk cannabis.
Weekend Reading 8.08.09
It’s been a while since we’ve posted a Weekend Reading. To make up for it, we went a little overboard this time. Reward yourself if you get even halfway through. Enjoy.
Wake ‘N Bake 8.06.09
1 .The brother of the New York mom who caused a wrong-way crash that killed eight people, including her daughter and three nieces, says his family is shocked by a report that found she was drunk and high at the time. (AP)
2. A defense attorney for a marijuana dealer charged with killing and burying a [...]
Man ‘forced to live’ at cannabis factory jailed
A man on the run from police claimed he was forced to live in a unit on a Doncaster (Great Britain) industrial estate so he could tend cannabis bushes. Surprisingly, he got jailed anyway.
Cannabis ‘can cause psychosis in healthy people’?
Take with a grain of salt: Scientists at the Institute of Psychiatry in King’s College London have released a study that they say confirms a link between psychosis and skunk cannabis.
Owner of boa that escaped arrested on pot charges
An English man cited last week after his 8-foot boa constrictor went missing was arrested Wednesday in connection with a “sophisticated cannabis growing operation.”
