Pot Night - The Book (Channel 4 Television, 1995)
Artikkelinformasjon
| Tittel: | Pot Night - The Book (Channel 4 Television, 1995) |
| Forfatter: | Channel 4 Television (red.) |
| Språk: | Engelsk |
| Kildeadresse: | Vis og kopier kildeadressen |
| Publisert: | 1995 |
| Emner: | Psykose, Historisk bakgrunn, Kriminalisering og legalisering, Helse, Produksjon og handel, Geopolitisk |
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Artikkeltekst
Pot Night - The Book
Channel 4 Television, 1995
Contents
Cannabis - Fact & Fiction
Contributors
What Is Cannabis?
A Short History Of Cannabis
Moral Outrage & The Healin' Herb
**Cannabis & Popular Culture
**A Lexicon of Cannabis
The Plant, The Sherbet & The Rope: The Wider Use Of Cannabis
**Gardening notes
**Cooking with Cannabis
**Cannabis as hemp
Cannabis In Medicine
Cannabis & The Law
What's The Difference?
The Business Of Cannabis
A Tale Of Two Countries
**Dutch Policy: Turning A Blind Eye?
**Sweden: A Tightening Of Policy
Legalisation: For & Against
**Just Say Now: The Case For Cannabis Legalisation
**Legalisation: The Fool's Gold
Resources
**Relevant organisations
**Further reading
**Internet
**Films
**Mass-Observation research
**Music
[Fra THE WOOTTON RETORT: The Decriminalisation of Cannabis in Britain http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/WRaltnet.html ]:
Perhaps the highpoint of the apparent attempt to prepare public opinion for legalisation was the Cannabis Weekend on Channel 4 television, which broadcasts nationally. There were fourteen programmes about cannabis in one day, including a Cheech and Chong movie; and the following day there was a two hour debate, for which Professor Grinspoon was flown in from Harvard. The debate was the subject of a phone-in which received about 150,000 calls. The phone-in vote was announced at the end of the debate – 91% in favour of legalisation!(6)
6.. A pamphlet was published in connection with this adventure: Pot Night, Channel 4 Television, 1995; ISBN 1 85144 129 8; 36 pages. The pamphlet, its cover printed on hemp paper, includes gems such as this: "By 1968, the 'Legalise Pot' campaign had become such a cause celebre that the Conservative government of the time appointed a Home Office select committee chaired by Baroness Wootton, to look at the 'cannabis question'. By the time Baroness Wootton presented her finished Report (published in January, 1969) a Labour government, led by Jim Callaghan was in power …" (my italics), p. 9. This is from an article by Sean O'Hagen, who writes for the Times and the Guardian.
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