Tag Archives: drugs reform
My second TFA blog and a long week for me
Following yesterday’s news that the Home Affairs Select Committee will launch a review into drugs policy, I’ve written a blog about the most significant part of it over at The … Continue reading
The problem with drugs policy reformists
Last night I went to “Drug policy and law reform” – a short event hosted by the Adam Smith Institute. Steve Rolles, the chief policy analyst for Transform was the … Continue reading
The press on drugs
“I’d forgive one for not knowing about the calls for drug decriminalisation from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs,” Stephanie Lis said in an article for The Commentator … Continue reading
Oversexed, overpaid and over here. Police our streets and take our gear
Not content are the neocons in America dictating the correct set of moral beliefs and values that should be extended across the globe, they now want to police the world’s … Continue reading
Conservatives should be for drugs policy reform
Update: This is now cross-posted from Conservative Home, where it was first published. Read the whole thing here. There were just one or two members at the Liberal Democrat conference … Continue reading
Responsibility in drugs reporting and reform
Readers of my blog will know that I am strongly opposed to the way that drugs are reported in the press. More often than not the reporting lacks much sense … Continue reading
So the Daily Mail will tell us to take an aspirin a day, but what about MDMA?
While the Mail are prone to changing their mind on issues concerning health, they are prone to publishing stories such as “How an aspirin a day can keep heart attacks … Continue reading
If we are to have ‘zero tolerance policing’, we need drugs reform
In tomorrow’s Daily Telegraph, the Prime Minister announces a ‘zero tolerance approach to street crime.’ Following the recruitment of Bill Bratton, Cameron says that “we haven’t talked the language of zero … Continue reading
French economist shows cannabis legalisation would bring €1bn per year in tax
A French economist, Pierre Kopp, has published an essay entitled “Les drogues sont-elles bénéfiques pour la France?”, which according to Google Translate means ‘Are drugs good for France?’. He is … Continue reading
