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Matthew Parris and Jon Snow on the skunk? That’s the way to turn kids off drugs | Hadley Freeman Don’t have an MRI scan while monged out of your mind: that seems to be the one lesson we can safely draw from Channel 4’s Cannabis on Trial programme
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The re-enactment of the 1965 Freedom Ride through northern New South Wales departs at dawn – video There was a whirl of excitement at the University of Sydney on Wednesday morning as the 50th anniversary re-enactment of the Freedom Ride got under way.
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