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		<title>800,000 Drug Searches. Two-Thirds Found Nothing. And It All Kicked Off at Thorpe Park</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every stop-and-search in England and Wales is published, one row at a time. I pulled three years of them — 1.46 million searches — and asked one question: what are the police actually looking for, and do they find it? The answer to the first half is drugs. Not knives, not guns, not stolen goods. ... <a title="800,000 Drug Searches. Two-Thirds Found Nothing. And It All Kicked Off at Thorpe Park" class="read-more" href="https://www.dope-smoker.co.uk/britain-searched-800000-people-for-drugs-in-three-years-two-thirds-of-the-time-it-found-nothing/" aria-label="Read more about 800,000 Drug Searches. Two-Thirds Found Nothing. And It All Kicked Off at Thorpe Park">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The True Cost of Cannabis Prohibition in the UK: £1.4 Billion a Year and Rising</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fifty-five years ago, in 1971, the UK passed the Misuse of Drugs Act and declared war on cannabis. Half a century on, it is worth asking a simple question with an uncomfortable answer: what has that war actually cost us? Not in rhetoric — in pounds, police hours, criminal records and human lives. We pulled ... <a title="The True Cost of Cannabis Prohibition in the UK: £1.4 Billion a Year and Rising" class="read-more" href="https://www.dope-smoker.co.uk/the-true-cost-of-cannabis-prohibition-in-the-uk-1-4-billion-a-year-and-rising/" aria-label="Read more about The True Cost of Cannabis Prohibition in the UK: £1.4 Billion a Year and Rising">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Skunk Numbers: 27 Years of Data on How Strong Dutch Weed Really Is (1999-2025)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every Trimbos THC-monitor measurement 1999-2025 charted in English for the first time: potency, price, and value per euro. Updated every year.]]></description>
		
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		<title>In Britain the Spice is in the Weed. In Canada it&#8217;s in the Fentanyl</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week I showed that a third of vapes sold as THC in the UK contain synthetic cannabinoids. So I pulled 89,000 drug-checking results from a country where cannabis is legal to see what happens to the spice when the weed comes with a label. Short answer: it doesn&#8217;t go away. It goes somewhere worse. ... <a title="In Britain the Spice is in the Weed. In Canada it&#8217;s in the Fentanyl" class="read-more" href="https://www.dope-smoker.co.uk/in-britain-the-spice-is-in-the-weed-in-canada-its-in-the-fentanyl/" aria-label="Read more about In Britain the Spice is in the Weed. In Canada it&#8217;s in the Fentanyl">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Only One in Three THC Vapes in Britain Actually Contains Cannabis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We pulled every cannabis vape tested this year by the UK&#8217;s only public drug-checking service. A third contained cannabis. A third contained spice. The rest contained nicotine, nothing at all, or in one memorable case, cocaine and ketamine. Twenty-odd years ago the worst thing you&#8217;d find in a British cannabis product was soap bar: hash ... <a title="Only One in Three THC Vapes in Britain Actually Contains Cannabis" class="read-more" href="https://www.dope-smoker.co.uk/only-one-in-three-thc-vapes-in-britain-actually-contains-cannabis/" aria-label="Read more about Only One in Three THC Vapes in Britain Actually Contains Cannabis">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Medical Cannabis Is Quietly Going Mainstream in the UK</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There was no press conference, no ministerial statement, no front-page splash. But buried in the Care Quality Commission&#8217;s latest annual controlled-drugs report, published on 9 July, is one of the most remarkable growth stories in British healthcare: medical cannabis prescribing has more than doubled — again. According to The Safer Management of Controlled Drugs: Annual ... <a title="Medical Cannabis Is Quietly Going Mainstream in the UK" class="read-more" href="https://www.dope-smoker.co.uk/medical-cannabis-is-quietly-going-mainstream-in-the-uk/" aria-label="Read more about Medical Cannabis Is Quietly Going Mainstream in the UK">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Exploring Legal Cannabis in Thailand</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Arriving in Bangkok I hadn’t been to Thailand before, but within seconds of setting foot inside the public area of the airport I was laughing along with a couple of enigmatic Thai travel agents who I apparently scared a little bit with my sudden approach. It was a warm welcome and I immediately felt at ... <a title="Exploring Legal Cannabis in Thailand" class="read-more" href="https://www.dope-smoker.co.uk/exploring-legal-cannabis-in-thailand/" aria-label="Read more about Exploring Legal Cannabis in Thailand">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Vaping vs Smoking Cannabis: What the Research Actually Says</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ask ten cannabis consumers whether vaping is healthier than smoking and you&#8217;ll get ten confident answers, most of them based on vibes. The actual research is more interesting than the folklore — broadly encouraging for vaporisers, but with a couple of genuine caveats that rarely make it into the conversation. Here&#8217;s what the science says, ... <a title="Vaping vs Smoking Cannabis: What the Research Actually Says" class="read-more" href="https://www.dope-smoker.co.uk/vaping-vs-smoking-cannabis-what-the-research-actually-says/" aria-label="Read more about Vaping vs Smoking Cannabis: What the Research Actually Says">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Quiet Revolution of CBD: What We Actually Know</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A decade ago, if you&#8217;d mentioned CBD at a dinner party, you&#8217;d have gotten blank stares or a nervous joke about getting high. Today it&#8217;s in your neighbour&#8217;s bath salts, your colleague&#8217;s morning coffee, and the little brown bottle your normally sceptical aunt swears by for her aching knees. Cannabidiol has gone from fringe curiosity ... <a title="The Quiet Revolution of CBD: What We Actually Know" class="read-more" href="https://www.dope-smoker.co.uk/the-quiet-revolution-of-cbd-what-we-actually-know/" aria-label="Read more about The Quiet Revolution of CBD: What We Actually Know">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>BC Bud Was Always Special. Legalization Just Made It Official.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a version of cannabis history that gets told a lot, the one where everything changed in October 2018, when Canada flipped the switch and made it legal. Politicians took credit. Newspapers ran think pieces. Stock markets went briefly mental. But if you actually lived in British Columbia during that period, you know the real ... <a title="BC Bud Was Always Special. Legalization Just Made It Official." class="read-more" href="https://www.dope-smoker.co.uk/bc-bud-was-always-special-legalization-just-made-it-official/" aria-label="Read more about BC Bud Was Always Special. Legalization Just Made It Official.">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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