Previously on ACMD's Breaking Bad

This week, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) fired the latest salvo in the Government’s increasingly farcical response to the manufactured panic around ‘designer drugs’- in other words substances that are created and marketed specifically to get around existing drug laws. The ‘designer drugs’ story has all the ingredients of the best [...]

The "Iranian terror plot" and the Mexican drug war.

The US government has foiled a terrorist plot involving Iran, Mexican drug cartels, Cuba, Hezbollah, and Osama Bin Laden’s reanimated corpse. Ok, ok they’re actually only claiming the first two.  In news that will bring joy to 24 season writers and Tea Party members, the United States Department of Justice has allegedly exposed an Iranian terrorist [...]

Addicts = People

What have Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse got in common? And no I’m not asking you to skim the surface of your brain and find the ‘obvious’ ‘members of the 27 club’ option. Please, dig a little deeper than that. In fact you’ll probably need to dig a lot deeper as the press [...]

America's gulag goes on strike.

Ye may have noticed over the New Year a prison riot in England, with prisoners staging an uprising over searches for contraband booze. What wasn’t reported as much was that in the USA a much bigger and more important protest by prisoners – a one day strike, which crossed racial lines as Black and White [...]

Santa Claus = drug fiend, a Festive Message from SSY.

As we stand just teetering on the edge of crimbo, pressies wrapped and looking forward to watching Her Majesty address us for another year SSY would like to make our own festive greeting to our readers, outlining how one of the holiday season’s family favourites is in fact a SERIAL DRUG USER. I am of [...]

Incredibly boring man supports ending of drug war.

In the past year and a bit or so, there’s been a real momentum challenging the establishment view on drugs –  that drugs are all bad and that a civilised society has to keep them prohibited. The head of the Royal College of Physicians, former Police chiefs and of course SSY favourite former ACMD chair [...]

Government knows more about science than scientists

As previously reported by SSY, the government isn’t generally too keen on scientific advice when it comes to formulating drug policy. When the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, and independent body advising the government on drugs legislation, recommended against Cannabis being reclassified as a class B drug, the Labour government went ahead and [...]

"Drugs are not forbidden because they are dangerous but dangerous because they are forbidden."

You heard it here first kids; drugs are bad. It may come as a surprise that Alcohol comes on top of this list of harmful drugs composed by the former governmental adviser David Nutt’s new outfit; but what is more surprising is that some of the drugs on this list are actually considered illegal by [...]

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 [...]

If you can't win the war on drugs…

Then try and win the war on drug addicts – that seems to be the stance taken by “Project Prevention”, a US based “charity” that’s come to the UK to offer £200 cash to any drug addict in exchange for being sterilised. They were featured in the news a few months ago, after a group [...]

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