Transform Drug Policy Foundation Blog

I had a great opportunity today to discuss global drug policy on the BBC World Service (broadcast internationally) with Dr Robert Dupont , ...

Last week's launch of Transform's new book 'After the War on Drugs; Blueprint for Regulation' has received a large volume...

On Saturday Steve Rolles appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship current affairs show, the Today programme, to discuss drugs policy reform, s...

UK Parliamentary launch of 'Blueprint for Regulation' Grannd Committee room, House of Commons Blueprint launch press release Transfo...

Transform is pleased to announce that our latest publication, ' After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation' will be launche...

PRESS NOTICE: from the Parliamentary Drugs and Alcohol Treatment and Harm Reduction Group Chair: Lord David Ramsbotham Secretary: Mike Wood ...

The Nutt episode has revealed the limits of the Home Office's criminal justice approach to drugs policy The Advisory Council on the Misu...

There was a welcome outbreak of common sense in Yesterday's Evening Standard, a paper more often prone to reactionary drug war posturing...

There's a lot of important issues raised by the ACMD chair's sacking, and the subsequent reaction. Transform have been actively eng...

One of the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) raised the issue of carrying out in Impact Assessment (IA) of the Misuse of D...

Transform gave oral evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry into the cocaine trade this morning - which is available to view o...

A new report published by the Scottish Government this week called ' Assessing the Scale and Impact of Illicit Drug Markets in Scotland ...

On September 24, during his visit to the US, Victor Ivanov, Director of Russia’s Federal Service for the Control of Narcotics (Russia's ...

This month we have seen a plethora or articles in UK newspapers calling for an end to prohibition. There have been so many we thought we’d b...

Transform yesterday wholeheartedly welcomed the results of the heroin prescribing trials (as reported by the BBC) , and the understanding th...

This weeks' edition of New Scientist magazine has a cover feature titled 'Blueprint for a better world' that considers 10 '...

We'd like to recommend The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World by Tom Feiling as our book of the month. Here's a review ...

So, in the same month that the UK Government is making political capital from attaching long prison sentences to several new drugs few peop...

On Thursday Mexico finally enacted legislation to decriminalize personal possession of small quantities of all drugs (plans reported/discuss...

This is a short clip from MSNBC news, featuring interviews with the authors of a recent Washington Post article 'It's time to legal...