Drug law reform seems to be on the agenda in a way it has never been before following the sacking of David Nutt and it’s clear the prohibition camp is rattled.
Into this debate the Transform campaign has launched it’s latest publication “After the war on drugs - A blueprint for regulation” (download here) - more […]

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The reason Prof Nutt was sacked last week was made pretty clear by Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary; we can’t have people questioning the workings of the drug laws by spreading knowledge of the truth. He knows that as soon as the debate about drugs is opened up, the whole regime of prohibition will come […]

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UK drugs policy is in chaos and it’s all the fault of politicians playing to the media instead of making policy based on fact.  To paraphrase Douglas Adams of “The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy” fame: The skills needed to get elected mean that anyone who has the ability to do so is precisely […]

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Now lets be quite clear: Cannabis isn’t a controlled drug because it’s illegal, I’m sure this blog has mentioned that before once or twice. The problem with cannabis in the real world is that fact that although illegal, millions of people use it and a massive unrestrained, unregulated uncontrolled illegal trade funds organised crime as […]

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Just how many people would you need to prevent getting stoned to have any hope of reducing the rates of mental illness if the theory of a causal role for cannabis were true? The answer, it seems, is rather a lot.
A strange bit of research was published this week by researchers at Bristol, London, Cardiff […]

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