The recent report from the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints a damning picture for the future of our civilization. It is not looking good. Capitalism continues to tinker around the edges of the problem, while billionaires indulge in space-traveling follies. …

What makes me really sad and has done for many years now is that there are realistic, achievable solutions… alternative ways to make our world a better place for all humans and non-humans. I’m posting this because I am, essentially, a believer in what could be and it is my ethical duty, as a parent and a friend, to be an optimist 😊 But this is also NOT about some sentimental concept of hope… Post-COVID manifesto here (Originally posted on the Radical Anthropology Group’s Facebook).

In times of chaos and confusion people long for some kind of order or plan. This may manifest as continued blind faith and adoration in our incompetent and cruel leaders; it may manifest in the belief that some evil genius, like Bill Gates, has orchestrated this whole situation; it may…

Regulatory / diverse economic framework for the production, supply and consumption of cannabis in the UK. In October 2019 at the Green Party (of England and Wales) Autumn conference a new drug policy was voted through unanimously. …

The drug policy working group for the Green Party of England and Wales has been hard at work over the past year resulting in a draft of a whole new policy. The group consists of party members and external consultation from organisations such as Release, Transform and Anyone’s Child. It…

There is a hemp farmer in the UK who was recently approached by a business man offering him £5 million for all the flowers from his crop. The businessman wanted them to extract the CBD. …

I am uncomfortable with the statement ‘cannabis cures cancer’ as it is far to simplistic and I wouldn’t want to give anyone false hope. However, if we are going to regulate cannabis as a medicine and allow people to grow their own medicine and make it freely available on the…

It is worrying times. There is a real instability around our food systems in the UK. This issue is twofold. One, people cannot afford to eat; and two the UK simply doesn’t produce enough of its own food. So I have an idea. An idea that really should have been…

The debate around medical cannabis has stepped up a gear in recent weeks due in large part to the very public case of 11 year old Billy Caldwell who suffers from Dravet’s Syndrome, a form of epilepsy. Caldwell’s landmark case has shown us how the political class can reform laws…