Cookies, gummy bears and juices – normalising cannabis
Date: tbc 2025
The popularity of cannabis continues to grow exponentially with new applications and modes of delivery. Finding new modes of delivery has been the key in detaching the plant from it’s counter-cultural, subversive connotations. Most importantly both for health and for habit forming has been the dissociation of cannabis and tobacco
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Tobacco and Nicotine
Date: tbc 2025
The market for tobacco products is diverging between a small but rising number of dedicated cigar aficionados, often with deep pockets and the vaping community.
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Khat Chews: a celebration of sociality
Date: tbc 2025
Theresa May was the Home Secretary who decided to roll back decades of forbearance and impose a ban on khat. The decision led to the overnight disappearance of the mafrish, the gathering of khateurs, places where up to fifty men would come together to socialise around a shared pleasure, the
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Kava Royale – lifting legislative restrictions on kava in the UK
Date: 14 March 2025
Kava (Piper methysticum) is a mildly intoxicating drink that has for centuries been drunk in the Pacific islands including Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and Vanatu. The active ingredient, known as kavalactones are extracted from the root and mixed with water and drunk from bowls often fashioned from coconut shells. Its mildly
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