the lobsterpot< – edition 33

Indonesian Warrior Women

There are few things as powerful as a group of mothers with a cause. That’s evident in the ripples being caused in Indonesia by a group of mothers who are fighting medical cannabis reform.

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Albanian Development

Another European state on the cusp of changing their weed ways with Albania this week. A draft bill proposes legalizing export only medical cannabis and hemp. Like every country in the world, they’re finding their own way, but progress is progress.

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Is Someone Smoking Tobacco?!

Chances are that if you’ve ever been out in a group and you smell ganja burning nearby, that someone has exclaimed “I think someone’s smoking weed”. But attitudes in Australia, according to a recently published data from a 2019 survey, have found that people are now more accepting of cannabis than tobacco – that’s a serious shift.

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A Lord’s Word

Lord Kamall, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for Technology, Innovation, and Life Sciences, stated during a discussion on medicinal cannabis that cannabis companies need to step forward and contribute to funding clinical research. This is a big name to make that sort of a statement and should help spur further change in the UK.

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Three Strikes You’re Out

More news from our ‘Green & Pleasant’ land. Everyone’s favourite (!) Home Secretary – Ms. Priti Patel – is proposing to crack down on what’s referred to as the ‘scourge of substance abuse’. 

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Yup, recreational cannabis users could soon face financial penalties, drug awareness courses, tagging, and the confiscation of passports and driving licenses – for up to three ‘offences’.

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"Drug misuse puts lives at risk, fuels criminality and serious and violent crime and also results in the grotesque exploitation of young, vulnerable people." Ms Patel is quoted as saying. 

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We couldn’t agree more. But surely there’s another solution…? #legaliseit.

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Cannabis Is Cannabis

This piece on GreenQueen Magazine goes into the issues with how the cannabis debate has evolved and is still framed in a harmful way to overall acceptance. The THC/CBD divide is one which ultimately makes little sense when it all comes from the same place.

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