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		<title>Top doc: Prohibition has failed</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/08/top-doc-prohibition-has-failed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another leading medical expert has come out to call for the decriminalisation of personal drug use.
Sir Ian Gilmore is the outgoing head of the Royal College of Physicians, a professional body which represents 20,000 medical professionals in the UK. He has a long standing interest in drugs policy stemming from his background as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prohibition has always failed</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/07/prohibition-has-always-failed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ssy.org.uk/?p=3383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every human society since we first evolved has experimented with drugs, pyschoactive substances, and altered states of consciousness.
Many leading psychologists and anthropologists believe that this is a normal part of human life, and experimenting with substances like cannabis or magic mushrooms has actually played a role in the evolution of modern, intelligent humans.
But in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legalise Cannabis &#8216;10 hits the west end</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/07/legalise-cannabis-10-hits-the-west-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam T</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to free the weed clap your hands.. CLAP CLAP.
Yesterday saw the SSY organised Legalise Cannabis &#8211; End the War on Drugs demo take to the streets of the west end of Glasgow, with between 300-350 mostly young people turning out for the biggest march of its kind Scotland has seen for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another non-mephedrone related death</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/07/another-non-mephedrone-related-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in April the Daily Mail asked us: &#8220;Meow Meow: Is Carmen, 17, the latest victim?&#8221;
Shock answer: no.
Carmen Marie Moulton from Penrith died in April just after the government imposed a ban on mephedrone, due to media scare stories with no scientific basis. These stories, as we all now know, revolved around picking up on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BAN CHAMPAGNE NOW</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/07/ban-champagne-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Bowden</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ssy.org.uk/?p=3372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Daily Mail picks up another story of mephedrone madness &#8211; this time the death of a daughter of a premiership footballer. Her tragic death is being used opportunistically by the tabloids to support their unscientific banning of mephedrone. In reality Sibylle Siberski tragically committed suicide, and the drugs she took are being used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sub-woofer madness.</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/07/sub-woofer-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Bowden</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ssy.org.uk/?p=3358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;OH GOD OH GOD STOP I CAN SEE SATAN HE&#8217;S LOOKING RIGHT AT ME!&#8221; -- this is not a common response to listening to most music, with the exception of Green Day or Daniel O&#8217;Donnell. However the world&#8217;s finest newspaper has found another TERRIFYING threat to your children -- noiseodrugs. Just when you thought your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Party Against Prohibition!</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/07/party-against-prohibition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam T</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ssy.org.uk/?p=3088</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the start of the summer holidays, and in Scotland, that can mean only one thing: rain, and lots of it.
Okay, two things actually, and as the holidays arrive in a (literal) hailstorm of erm, rain and rain, SSY is pleased to make an announcement which will more than make up for any dreich weather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portugal proves decriminalisation works!</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/06/portugal-proves-decriminalisation-works/</link>
		<comments>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/06/portugal-proves-decriminalisation-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LydiaTeapot</dc:creator>
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		<title>More Mephedrone lies exposed</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/05/more-mephedrone-lies-exposed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 20:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ssy.org.uk/?p=2757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The case for the mephedrone ban rushed in by the last government was again undermined today, after it was revealed two teenagers from Scunthorpe did NOT die as a result of the drug.
Louis Wainwright, 18, and Nicholas Smith, 19, died in March. At the time Humberside Police helped contribute to the climate of drugs panic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal College of Nursing boss supports SSP heroin policy</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/04/royal-college-of-nursing-boss-supports-ssp-heroin-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/04/royal-college-of-nursing-boss-supports-ssp-heroin-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The head of the Royal College of Nursing has backed the idea of clean pharmaceutical heroin being made available on prescription to addicts, an idea the SSP has campaigned in favour of for years.
Peter Carter was speaking as the RCN discussed the results of pilot studies conducted last year in London, Darlington and Brighton. The [...]]]></description>
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