Transform Drug Policy Foundation Blog

SOCA, the new Serious Organised Crime Agency, launched by Tony Blair with some considerable fanfare in April last year seems to be running i...

OK, so it's not going to lead to the redrafting of the UN conventions at the end of the latest ten year master-plan to eliminate them fr...

An interesting story has popped on the US based Drug War Rant blog about how US based National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has been atte...

Some fascinating commentary on recent developments in criminal justice legislation emerged this week from the very heart of the Criminal Jus...

In an interesting development the Sunday Times reports on a 'confidential' memo written by David Bennett, the head of the No 10 pol...

The media is full of reports that the Home Office could be split in two. Despite the fact that the idea was rejected by Blair when Charles C...

The International Harm Reduction Assocaiton today relaunches its snazzy new website redesign. It features an extensive collection of free-t...

So methamphetamine is, as of yesterday, a Class A drug. Well thank heavens for that, now we have nothing to worry about. I am reliably infor...

Susan Deacon MSP, writes an encouraging, balanced article in the Sunday Herald . She urges fellow politicians to 'get real' and agre...

The Herald once again engages with the debate by calling for a fact-based, prejudice-free path to be taken by Scotland's Futures Forum....

Sweden is often regarded by many people as having some of the most progressive social policies in Europe. So it may come as a surprise to th...

The Daily Mail today continues its long history of fuzzy headed cannabis news reports with a piece today entitled Cannabis warnings improve ...

The terrible murder of five street sex workers in Ipswich over the past fortnight has provoked a burst of media debate on the prohibitions o...

This pithy comment from the Guardian divides the prohibitionist camp into the ignorant and the political. Whereas this second comment from...

This story highlights the control freakery of those in power in Australia. Prior to a crisis meeting on ice, the justice minister, Chris El...

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I have been researching this story for a number of years – that cigarettes contain radioactive polonium and lead – but never made any prog...

Despite widespread popular distrust of the use of herbicides in Afghanistan ("Afghans are deeply opposed to spraying poppies"), Jo...

The Scottish Herald here describes the campaigning by Jack Cole, spokesperson for the American based organisation Law Enforcement Against P...

The Times has embraced the recent flurry of drug policy stories with more enthusiasm than any of its broadsheet rivals. The ‘paper of record...