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Harriet Harman proposes outlawing payment for sex. Will she have restaurants policed to ensure that a couple eating out together are going Dutch?
Ms Harman and others are keen to exploit images of women both as vulnerable victims and as free agents making bold career choices. The difficulty is which to apply in this case.

But selling sex is not the only occupation where we might suspect some underlying problem. Many other ways of making a living, including Ms Harman's own, could in some cases be considered "prostitution" in its most fundamental sense.

ALED Jones hits on his best argument yet for the legalisation of cannabis, as he believes that it is so much stronger these days than in the 1960s.

As he points out, alcohol is regulated under strict guidelines with indications of strength etcetera, something that is not possible with cannabis under prohibition.

As regards its strength, both the Advisory Council on the Misuse of drugs and the European Drug Monitoring Centre have reported only modest, if any, increases in its strength in the past 30 years.
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The editor of a news website based in South Wales has claimed the jailing of medical cannabis grower Roderick Cotton, was a "missed opportunity" for opening communications regarding the intergration of medical cannabis into UK society.
According to Ian Malley, news editor at The Canna Zine , "http://cannazine.co.uk", the Roderick Cotton case was the natural beginning. An ideal opening for communications regarding the decriminalisation of cannabis for medical use.

Cannabis farms are growing across Milton Keynes as organised crime spreads from London say police.

Sixteen cannabis farms have been uncovered this year in Milton Keynes but Assistant Chief Constable George Wilson believes others remain undiscovered.

MK News - Drugs harvest: Police outside a house on Mercers Drive, Bradville where a cannabis farm was operating in May
Drugs harvest: Police outside a house on Mercers Drive, Bradville where a cannabis farm was operating in May