The debate surrounding the sacking of professor Nutt has opened up a whole can of nice big juicy worms. Issues which have never been allowed into the debate – such as the whole concept of “relative harms” – are now out there and people are talking about them which is all to the good, but [...]

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There was an interesting sounding programme on Radio 4 last week called The Report. The programme was billed as The sacking of the government’s former chief drugs adviser caused outrage in some quarters of the scientific community. Professor David Nutt had criticised the government’s decision to reclassify cannabis from class C to class B. James [...]

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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) – [...]

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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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