Over the past few months, Indonesia made the headlines with the series of executions of people condemned for drug trafficking offences.  This has sparked much discussion around the world, with many activists and policy makers alike considering the use of capital punishment as a gross human rights violation, necessitating an urgent reform of national laws.

The latest edition of the prestigious magazine The British Medical Journal includes an interesting study entitled “Continued Cannabis use and risk of incidence and persistence of psychotic symptoms: 10-year follow-up cohort study.” A lot has been said and written about the relationship between cannabis and psychosis. In this article, we will analyse the content of this latest study, as well as its contribution to this controversial subject.

An new app that claims to reveal whether you are too stoned to drive has been released.

Just like drink driving, drug driving is illegal in many US states and the UK - but often only if there's a certain amount of the substance detected in your system.

In some US states, confusion has arisen as a result of the decriminalisation of cannabis use.

But the new My Canary app, currently only available for iPhone, claims to help drivers make an informed decision before getting behind the wheel.

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Does end-of-life chemotherapy do more harm than good? New study finds gruelling treatment can give cancer patients WORSE quality of life than going without

Giving chemotherapy to cancer patients nearing the end of life can do more harm than good, a study has found.

The new research shows gruelling treatments given to people with life-threatening illnesses has no clinical benefit.

Instead, it can actually lead to a worse quality of life, with patients unable to perform many day-to-day functions.

Doctors said courses of treatment given to patients with end-stage cancer, whose tumours had spread to other parts of their bodies, had little or no positive effect.

A new study shows that men may be considerably more susceptible to mental and physical effects of the drug

Cannabis growers in West Yorkshire will continue to feel the full weight of the law.

That’s the pledge from a West Yorkshire Police chief amid growing concerns about a relaxed attitude to drugs by police forces.

But West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Mark Burns-Williamson vowed that tackling drugs production and supply - at all levels of operation - remained a priority in the region and extra resources have been established to flush out dealers.

Mr Burns-Williamson’s comments come as his counterpart at Durham, Ron Hogg said his force will no longer actively pursue cannabis smokers and small-scale growers in order to prioritise its resources against more serious crime.

West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Mark Burns-Williamson

International Cannabinoid Research Society’s (or ICRS) recent 25th annual symposium proved to be a great place to share ideas and learn from a wide variety of highly accomplished scientists in the area of cannabinoid research. The 4-day conference was highly diverse, covering everything from novel chemical cannabinoid entities, to quality control methods for cannabis, to non-THC cannabinoids such as CBD (cannabidiol) and CBG (cannabigerol).

Campaigners half way to the number of signatures needed to trigger a debate in Parliament

A FIELD of harmless hemp was ransacked after Facebook users claimed to have discovered a ten acre patch of wild cannabis in rural Sussex.

Police were called after vandals ripped up the legal plants and tried to smoke them.

Landowner Keith Langmead said: “They can smoke it all they like, they won’t get high.

“They could have a bonfire of it and they still won’t get high.”

Farmer Nathaniel Loxley, 28, said people started stealing his plants after a message was posted on Facebook at the weekend.

“This is industrial hemp with no THC content, no psychoactive content.