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Summary of the case against the Minister of Health for Northern Ireland

Posted on 27/05/2014 by Web Team |

Following Belfast’s 3rd annual 420 Cannabis Celebration at Botanic Gardens The Gown, an independent student newspaper at Queens University got in touch asking for a statement regarding the cannabis legalisation…

Northern Ireland drug deaths ‘different from rest of UK’

Posted on 14/02/2014 by Web Team |

Drugs-related deaths in Northern Ireland are mostly linked to prescription drugs, unlike other regions of the UK, a study suggests. Whereas the vast majority of drug-related deaths in the UK…

Panel discussion about about Anti-Drug Vigilantes in Northern Ireland

Posted on 16/12/2013 by Web Team |

Panel discussion about about Anti-Drug Vigilantes in Northern Ireland, broadcast on Resonance FM 18th November, featuring Eamonn McCann, John Lindsay, Maureen Hetherington and Seamus Farrell.

Joint Decision – Short Film – Made In Northern Ireland

Posted on 09/11/2013 by Web Team |

When people do this you think “How weak are they?”. But if you were in as much pain, you would understand why they do it. Selected for “Belfast Film Festival”…

Letter to the Command Secretariat of the PSNI regarding Article 14 of the Human Rights Act

Posted on 25/03/2013 by Web Team |

HM Gov admits that it is an historical and cultural tradition to treat peoples’ activities with alcohol and tobacco separately and more leniently than our activities with other substances whilst…

The 2nd Annual 420 Smoke Out at Belfast City Hall

Posted on 20/02/2013 by Web Team |

It was around this time last year I first saw a poster circulating Facebook advertising a 420 Smoke Out at Belfast City Hall.I knew instantly that I had to go.…

No Dope Here! by John Lindsay

Posted on 02/12/2012 by Web Team |

Throughout the conflict in Northern Ireland both Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries have exacted violent and sometimes murderous ‘punishments’ on those they accused of having wronged their communities. Since the 1990s,…

BELFAST FREEDOM RALLY

Posted on 04/06/2012 by Web Team |

‘Do you have everything you need? Do you want every thing you need?’ Ambiguous, eh? Even more so when you hear it from a former drug smuggler, and I’m talking…

Discrimination in Northern Ireland

Posted on 11/05/2012 by Web Team |

Cannabis has a long history of medical, recreational and sacramental use in many parts of the world. The legislation that is in place (here in Northern Ireland and the UK),…

Sunflowerfest 2012

Posted on 07/05/2012 by Web Team |

Sunflowerfest returns 17-19th August 2012 after the success of last year’s festival where attendance trebled to 3,000 and hundreds camped for the weekend at Tubbys Farm, Cabra Road Hillsborough. Sunflowerfest…

End recreational discrimination – Petition

Posted on 03/05/2012 by Web Team |

End recreational discrimination The Minister of Health for N.I. has the powers to let us grow, possess and supply ourselves with cannabis or get it on prescription (under section 7…

Belfast 420 Smokeout Report

Posted on 23/04/2012 by Web Team |

Hello, my name is Judyta. I came here almost seven years ago from Poland to do a postgraduate course at Queen’s, and I decided to stay here. Believe me or…

Worldwide 420 Celebrations 2012 – Videos

Posted on 22/04/2012 by Web Team |

A collection of videos from the 420 cannabis celebrations that happened around the world on April 20th. I will add more as they appear online. 420 Smokeout at Belfast City…

Up to 1,500 pack Guildhall Square for rally against RAAD

Posted on 11/03/2012 by Web Team |

Up to 1,500 people packed into the Guildhall Square on Saturday afternoon to call for the group Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) to stand down. The protest, organised by RAAD-…

420 Smokeout Belfast City Hall

Posted on 17/02/2012 by Web Team |

I just seen this poster on Bakebook advertising a Smokeout at Belfast City Hall on the 20th of April. It would be amazing to see a massive turnout for this. …

Prison drug use ‘could escape detection’

Posted on 08/02/2011 by Web Team |

Drug use in Northern Ireland’s prisons could go undetected if a controversial new test is introduced, a senior officer – who helps run the drug testing unit at Maghaberry –…

The drugs don’t work … especially the legal ones

Posted on 02/01/2011 by Web Team |

Figures just published show a continuing rise in alcohol and drugs-related deaths in Northern Ireland. However, the pattern of damage revealed by the figures bears little resemblance to the picture…

‘Depressed’ Chinese inmate killed himself

Posted on 16/11/2010 by Web Team |

A FOREIGN national remand prisoner took his own life after becoming depressed at the thought of spending years away from his family, according to the prisons watchdog. In her report…