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Transform Drug Policy Foundation
http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/
Transform Drug Policy Foundation seeks to minimise drug-related harms to individuals and communities by bringing about a just and effective system to control and regulate drugs.
- Added on: Jul 12th, 2006
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Listed in: Politics News & Media Society
- Tags: home office drugs us cannabis prohibition bad science
Recent Posts
Transform launch new guide to legal regulation of drugs in the House of Commons, Nov 12th
Transform is pleased to announce that our latest publication, 'After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation' will be launched at an event in the House of Commons on November the 12th, with simultaneous launches taking place in the US (at the Dr...
Double Standards from the Evening Standard on cannabis classification?
There was a welcome outbreak of common sense in Yesterday's Evening Standard, a paper more often prone to reactionary drug war posturing, in its leader editorial on the David Nutt furore: Spin and drugsThe row over the firing of drug expert David Nu...
MPs table motion calling for drugs policy based on scientific evidence
PRESS NOTICE: from the Parliamentary Drugs and Alcohol Treatment and Harm Reduction GroupChair: Lord David RamsbothamSecretary: Mike Wood MPVice Chairs: David Burrowes MP, Paul Flynn MP, Paul Holmes MPFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:MPs table motion calling fo...
Tripping over Nutt
The Nutt episode has revealed the limits of the Home Office's criminal justice approach to drugs policyThe Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) was set up under the Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA) in 1971 on a premise that was thought radical at ...
David Nutt is sacked from the ACMD
There's a lot of important issues raised by the ACMD chair's sacking, and the subsequent reaction. Transform have been actively engaging in the debate in a range of broadcast media, including 5 live radio, and BBC and Channel 4 news. We will have mo...
HASC discusses calls for an Impact Assessment of the Misuse of Drugs Act
One of the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) raised the issue of carrying out in Impact Assessment (IA) of the Misuse of Drugs Act during a witness session as part of the current inquiry into the cocaine trade. Undertaking such an I...
