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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Transform Launches New Impact Assessment Web Page

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We have recently added a new page to the Transform website promoting our call for an Impact Assessment (IA) of drug policy. An IA would mak...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

California's message - end the War on Drugs, cut the deficit

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Campaigners are confident that it is now when, not if, marijuana is legalised in the US, with several states likely to vote on legalisation ...
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Friday, November 12, 2010

Drug warriors coming in from the cold? Calls for legal marijuana to be strictly regulated

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With US support for the legalisation of cannabis/marijuana fast approaching the 50% threshold  (California's Prop 19 legalisation ballo...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

High Society: Wellcome Collection exhibition of drugs in history

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A new, free exhibition (curated by Transform trustee and author Mike Jay) is opening tomorrow at the Wellcome Collection in London and will...
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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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