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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 FOI vs Home Office suppression of research - Part V (in The Economist )
The following article is the latest installment in Transform's long running campaign to get the Government to release its publicly funded research into the effectiveness of UK drug policy . It appears in this week's Economist magazine here. For mor...
Transform submission to the Home Office review of the ACMD
Transform have prepared a response to the Home Office review of the ACMD available in pdf here*. The introduction is copied below.Introductory Comments Transform is supportive of the concept of an independent expert Government advisory body on drugs...
Transform debates Nixon Drug Tsar on BBC World Service
I had a great opportunity today to discuss global drug policy on the BBC World Service (broadcast internationally) with Dr Robert Dupont, the first director of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the second US Drug Tsar from 1973 to ...
Transform discuss new book on BBC\'s Today Programme
On Saturday Steve Rolles appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship current affairs show, the Today programme, to discuss drugs policy reform, specifically Transform's new book 'After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation' (launched last week). Interv...
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...
