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Transform Drug Policy Foundation (TDPF) is the UK's leading centre of expertise on drug policy and law reform.

Friday, October 22, 2010

UN expert calls for a fundamental shift in global drug control policy

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Media Advisory At a press conference in New York on Tuesday 26 October, at the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly, one of ...
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Monday, October 18, 2010

Transform launches updated and re-designed 'Comparative Cost-Effectiveness of Drug Prohibition/Regulation' report

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On the eve of the Comprehensive Spending Review it seems like an opportune moment to relaunch Transform's 2009 report: 'A Compariso...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

67 US law professors back California's prop 19 tax and regulate cannabis measure

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The following statement and list of signatories is copied from the Yeson19.com website : To the Voters of California: As law professors at ...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Anti-Smoking poster from 1915

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  There's something charmingly blunt about this anti-smoking poster from 1915. It also contains a number of strangely prescient cues fo...
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Transform's submission to the Drugs Strategy Consultation

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The summary and conclusions are copied below, the full document (in Pdf format) is available here .  Transform has a number of serious c...
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Thursday, October 07, 2010

Leading International Scientific Body Supports Call for Legalisation and Regulation to Reduce Cannabis-Related Harms

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  October 7, 2010 [Vancouver, Canada] – The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP) today released a new research report t...
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Transform invited to address New York Bar Association in November

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     The New York City Bar Association's Committee on Drugs and the Law presents CONFRONTING AN OXYMORON: TAKING CONTROL OF CONTROL...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

The Independent becomes the latest national UK newspaper to back legalisation

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. Does the media follow public opinion or lead it? Probably a bit of both, but it is clear that the climate around drugs policy is changing...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Media Review: Prof Ian Gilmore calls for decriminalisation and regulation to be considered

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Transform issued a press release last Monday about Sir Ian Gilmore's comments in his final Newsletter as president of the Royal Society...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

US: National Black Police Association Endorses Marijuana Legalization/Regulation initiative

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Below is a press release issued yesterday by the US based Law Enforcement Against Prohibition detailing the newly announced support of the ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Reconsidering addiction: a film about Bruce Alexander's remarkable 'rat park' experiment

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. Seven minute trailer for an upcoming documentary by Jennifer DiCresce on Bruce Alexander's Rat Park experiment:   The Following di...
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Monday, August 16, 2010

"Consider Drug Regulation" says ex-president of Royal College of Physicians

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The following press release was issued by Transform at 00:00 Tues 16th of August 2010 This post will be updated with media coverage (see bel...
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