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

Monday, March 01, 2010

Book of the Month - Chasing Dragons

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Our book of the month for March is Chasing Dragons by Kyle Grayson. The book is listed in our extensive library of relevant and interesting...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

UNODC censors its own website making the case for cannabis decriminalisation

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note: for an update on this story see here  (the censored section has returned in dramatically edited form) The page on the UN Office on ...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

UN Office on Drugs and Crime makes the case for cannabis decriminalisation

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UPDATE:  25.02.10 - Dissapointingly The UNODC YouthNet page discussed below has apparently now been updated with the section on cannabis de...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Another contemptuous Home Office rejection of a request for better evidence in UK drug policy

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In April 2009 Transform published a groundbreaking report, titled 'A Comparison of the Cost-effectiveness of the Prohibition and Regulat...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Tobacco regulation: saving lives vs personal freedom

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The UK’s Department of Health (DoH) has announced an ambitious new strategy for reducing smoking in the population from 21% currently, to 1...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Epic three year FOI battle to release suppressed Home Office drug strategy evaluation reaches its denouement

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Update: 13.30pm 21 January We are delighted to announce that the Home Office has finally made the report available: Drugs Value for Mone...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

More rank hypocrisy from the Home Secretary

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Alan Johnson is leading for the Government in trying to convince us that it is curbing the worst excesses of alcohol retailers. Apart from ...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

David Bratzer and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Have Fought in the Trenches of the War on Drugs and Want to End It

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Great interview with serving Canadian policeman and LEAP member David Bratzer, in this month's Mautime magazine from the full interview ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Gordon Brown responds to Transform's call for Impact Assessment

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I received a letter from Downing Street this week, in response to my meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown to call for an Impact Assessme...
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Thursday, January 07, 2010

New HCLU short film about Transform's Blueprint

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Thanks to Peter Sarosi from HCLU for producing this short film featuring Transform's new publication 'After the War on Drugs: Bluep...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Christmas comes early for gangsters as three more drugs are criminalised

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Three drugs were prohibited yesterday; a synthetic cannabinoid often sold as ‘spice’, the synthetic stimulant benzylpiperazine or BZP , an...
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Monday, December 14, 2009

US takes a long hard look at the war on drugs

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Last week a Bill in US Congress made surprisingly smooth progress through the House of Representatives on its way to the Senate. The House b...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009

International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy launched

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On Human Rights Day 10.12.09, Transform Drug Policy Foundation welcomes the launch of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Poli...
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