Prop 19 falls… but with 46% of the vote

Yesterday’s mid-term elections in the United States saw the whole of the House of Representatives, one third of the Senate, and various state legislatures up at the polls. The big story has been the Republicans taking control of the House, and a number of high profile victories for the crazy far-right conspiracy theorists that make [...]

Prohibition has always failed

Every human society since we first evolved has experimented with drugs, pyschoactive substances, and altered states of consciousness. Many leading psychologists and anthropologists believe that this is a normal part of human life, and experimenting with substances like cannabis or magic mushrooms has actually played a role in the evolution of modern, intelligent humans. But [...]

Legalise Cannabis '10 hits the west end

If you want to free the weed clap your hands.. CLAP CLAP. Yesterday saw the SSY organised Legalise Cannabis – End the War on Drugs demo take to the streets of the west end of Glasgow, with between 300-350 mostly young people turning out for the biggest march of its kind Scotland has seen for [...]

Party Against Prohibition!

It’s the start of the summer holidays, and in Scotland, that can mean only one thing: rain, and lots of it. Okay, two things actually, and as the holidays arrive in a (literal) hailstorm of erm, rain and rain, SSY is pleased to make an announcement which will more than make up for any dreich [...]

Harry Potter caught experimenting with magical herbs…

The Daily Mirror have continued in their fine tradition of providing us with important information about celebrities as a public service. This time, they’ve broken the news that Daniel Radcliffe, who plays teen wizard Harry Potter in some famous films, might have been caught smoking a joint. According to other party-goers, he was staggering around [...]

Drug tsar sacked for inconvenient scientific opinions.

The Governments chief scientific advisor, shortly before enjoying a ketamine sundae Chief drugs advisor to the Government David Nutt has been sacked from his post, after a string of “controversial statements” – the most recent being that LSD and Cannabis were less harmful than alcohol. He’s already enraged the Government and Tory Tabloids by saying [...]

Family Guy try to legalize cannabis; Venezuela try to ban Family Guy.

The Venezuelan government has attempted to ban Family Guy because they think it promotes Marijuana use. Cable TV stations which don’t stop airing the show will be given hefty fines. Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said the programme should be pulled from the airwaves after being outraged by a recent episode in which the show’s [...]

Legalise, don't demonise!

As part of our cunning plan to gradually infiltrate and corrupt the mainstream media/take over the world with our nasty red politics, our Legalise campaign is totally, like, ALL OVER the Herald’s letter page today.  Sort of. Okay, I had one letter published. It’s a start isn’t it? Give us three months and Fox news [...]

Legalise Cannabis?!?!

After the Government made its humiliating and stupid u-turn last year, making cannabis a Class B drug, up from a Class C drug* SSY had a successful march/minor jog (thanks strathy police) in Glasgow, from George Square to Kelvingrove Park. A lot of the opposition to legalising cannabis comes from concerns about mental health, and [...]