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

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Joint Statement Against the Death Penalty at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs

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The statement copied below - calling for an end to the illegal use of the death penalty for drug offences was read out by Eka Iakobishvili ...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Press Release: Count the Costs project is launched at UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs

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Fifty Years of the War on Drugs: Time to Count the Costs and Explore the Alternatives The War on Drugs - Count the Costs global campaign wi...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

CFR report calls for Commission on alternatives, including legalisation

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A new report from the US based Council on Foreign Relations titled 'The Drug War in Mexico: Confronting a Shared Threat' makes a po...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

How to skew polls and influence people

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Most people would assume that professional pollsters understand the importance of how their questions are worded. If you want to obtain vali...
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Thursday, March 03, 2011

Upcoming event: 'A ceasefire in the war on drugs'

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Transform's senior policy analyst, Steve Rolles, will be amongst the speakers at the second event in the 'Ceasefire in the war on ...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Manufacturing the Drug Threat

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N.B. This blog comes with a policy nerd warning! Those who have followed the drugs debate will be only too aware of the way that politicians...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Obama says legalising drugs a "Legitimate Topic for Debate"

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. The following press release has been issued by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) . Whilst some way from a shift in policy it is ...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Exec summary of Transform's 'Blueprint for Regulation' now available in Russian

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We are pleased to announce the publication of a Russian translation of 'After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation' (24 page ...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

IDPC calls on countries to abstain from objecting to Bolivian proposal to lift UN coca ban

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The following press release and advocacy note were issued by the International Drug Policy Consortium (of which Transform is a partner mem...
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Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Sinn Fein initiates reform in Ireland

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Sinn Féin, Ireland’s fastest growing political party, has taken several steps to encourage a more effective, evidence-based approach to tack...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

'Legalise and regulate drugs' says UK's former drugs and defence Minister

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Bob Ainsworth MP, former Home Office drugs minister and Secretary of State for Defence, will call for the ...
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Watch Speakers from Transform's 'Ending the War on Drugs' Event

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We have now uploaded footage of the speakers at our 'Ending the War on Drugs' event which has held last month in London. This was a ...
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Monday, December 13, 2010

'The Nation' magazine special issue / cover feature on ending the Drug War

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Great to see yet more mainstream media coverage of the drug law reform debate, this time in a special issue  of The Nation Magazine. The co...
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