Friday, August 31, 2007

Times: Give Peace a Chance. Forget the War on Drugs

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. A fine pro-drug law reform op-ed appeared in the Times Yesterday titled: Give Peace a Chance. Forget the War on Drugs. by Anatole Kal...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

UK Drug policy 1997-2007 - The evidence un-spun

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. As part of Transform's response to the drug strategy consultation process we have produced a detailed briefing on the evidence of poli...
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Friday, August 24, 2007

Foriegn Policy Magazine and Fox News ask 'should drugs be legalised?'

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The drug law reform debate has been getting some high profile coverage lately. Last week saw powerful opeds in the Washington Post and W...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Prohibitionist rant trashed in the FT Economists' forum (with some help from Transform)

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. It is gratifying to see that the absurd prohibitionist rant from Joseph Califano that appeared in last week's Financial Times ( '...
Monday, August 20, 2007

Washington Post: 'The Lost War'

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. An excellent comment piece by Misha Glenny on the failure of prohibition appeared in yesterday's Washington post. It is titled 'Th...
Friday, August 17, 2007

Sentencing Guidelines Panel planning review and consultation on drug offences

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. The following correspondence has been forwarded to Transform from Dave Barlow, who represents Casey Hardison, currently in prison for 20 y...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Transform granted special consultative status at the UN

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Transform has become the first UK-based organisation, campaigning for an end to global drugs prohibition to be recognised officially by the ...
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

After the War on Drugs: Tools for the debate

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After nine months of toil Transform's latest publication is now available online to download in PDF format After the War on Drugs: Too...
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Monday, August 06, 2007

Thank you to our anonymous donor

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A big thank you to the anonymous donor who generously donated £500 to Transform last week through our website's secure online giving pa...
Thursday, August 02, 2007

drug prohibition / regulation debate in Parliamentary adjournment session

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The following is a speech given by Harry Cohen MP (Labour, Leyton and Wanstead ) during the parliamentary adjournment debate on July 26 th...
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Drug testing company welcomes expansion of drug testing - shock

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In an altogether unsurprising development the drug testing company Cozart, that produces the saliva drug testing equipment and kits used in ...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Transform in the Economist

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The following article appears in this week's Economist, quoting Danny Kushlick from Transform. It is a typically level headed piece from...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

More shoddy reefer madness reporting of cannabis risks

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When you are in the midst of a fully fledged media cannabis panic, as we currently seem to be, you can be quite sure that any new research o...

Transform in the New Statesman

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The following article , quoting Transform, appeared in this week's New Statesman (July 26th). It is a decent critique of prohibition, ir...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Spin tries to hide the £100 billion crime cost of the UK drug strategy

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Transform News Release. 25 July 2007 Spin tries to hide the £100 billion crime cost of the UK drug strategy Today (Wed 25 July) the Governm...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Transform on BBC Radio 4's 'Law in Action'

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BBC Radio 4's Law In Action broadcast a special programme devoted to the drug laws on Tuesday 24 July. Danny Kushlick, Transform Direct...
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Saturday, July 21, 2007

Independent debunks itself on cannabis potency

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In a strange turn of events Saturday's Independent ran a news piece by health correspondent Jeremy Lawrence, titled 'Debunked: poli...
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Bad Science: Testing social policy

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Testing Social Policy July 21st, 2007 by Ben Goldacre in the Guardian There is no sense in which I am a hardliner on trials, and I’m totally...
Friday, July 20, 2007

'Smoke and Mirrors'. Sue Blackmore in the Guardian

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The article below by Transform patron Sue Blackmore appeared in today's Guardian (Transform is linked twice). There is some interesting ...

Youth cannabis consumption plummets following ministerial revelations

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In a remarkable development following the recent admissions of youthful indescretions by 6 cabinet ministers, it appears that cannabis use a...