Transform Drug Policy Foundation Blog

. The International Harm Reduction Association 's new HR2 Harm Reduction & Human Rights programme, in conjunction with the Swedish ...

. The following PQ was tabled by Paul Flynn MP at the suggestion of Transform: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what ...

'Cannabis use down since legal change', the Guardian reports today on its front page. And its true, at least if you believe the Bri...

Last month, as reported on the blog , the influential Foreign Policy magazine ran a cover story on drug legalisation by Ethan Nadelmann, dir...

. Drugs prohibition is a “policy of mass destruction” and the consultation document is a “dodgy dossier” News release No Embargo D...

. There was an interesting piece in yesterdays Observer newspaper , in which Transform loomed large. The item drew together three separate b...

Progress prohibited The government's drug policy over the last decade has comprehensively failed, delivering the exact opposite of its p...

The DHA today published its submission to the Government's deeply flawed consultation process. The submission can be read in full here ...

Following on from Chief Inspector Brunstrom's report last week the BBC's long running series the Moral Maze tackeled the moral issu...

A new short film on youtube produced by US based Students for Sensible Drug Policy highlights one of the more distressing outcomes of the w...

Transform Drug Policy Foundation news release 13.30 15th October 07 no Embargo North Wales Police Authority endorse call for the legalisatio...

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Press Release from Transform Drug Policy Foundation 10.30am October 10 2007 no embargo Drugs prohibition is “unworkable and immoral” says Ch...

. The Council of Europe , representing 47 member states and a population of over 800 million people, has adopted a convention on promoting p...

. So whilst Gordon Brown rules out decriminalising possession of drugs (for ever) , and states that he plans to reclassify cannabis before ...

In stark contrast to the populist tough-on-drugs bidding war currently consuming UK policy thinking in the run up to the (probably) imminent...

I spotted these revealingly contrasting headlines (one after another) in the Daliy Dose drug news round up today: Drug is a problem, Michael...

. The Sentencing Project has released a new report that examines the burden of the "war on drugs" on the criminal justice system a...

On Monday the blog considered the fact that Gordon Brown was blithely steamrollering over the drug strategy consultation process by making ...