Archive: Decriminalisation Of Drugs

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MRSA Action UK: When the drugs don't work

MRSA Action UK helps to bring the human cost to the attention of government and industry over the ticking time bomb and lack of desperately needed antibiotics.
Cancer Drugs Fund announcement - Breast Cancer Care comments

Samia al Qadhi: 'Thousands of breast cancer patients have today been denied the chance of improved quality of life and extra time with their loved-ones. This news is devastating for them'.
Doctors warned by MDU about patients selling prescribed drugs online

The Medical Defence Union, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, is warning doctors to be aware of an emerging trend where drugs prescribed to patients appear for sale online.

How one patch of grass became the UK's first ever decriminalised drugs space

Drugs testing tent at Secret Garden Festival points towards bold new direction for UK drugs policy
Knives out for Clegg as anti-drugs lobby targets Lib Dems

Attacks on the Lib Dem leader show just how small and isolated the anti-drug reform movement has become

What media reports on the new cannabis study don't tell you

A hysterical media has leapt on a new study of cannabis use to prove its psychotic effects - but it actualy found many varieties of the drug are harmless
Hung parliaments could break Labour-Tory stranglehold on drug policy

Support for reform of drugs laws continues to grow

Don't mock Norman Baker - he accomplished more than most ministers do in a lifetime

The vultures are out to pick at Norman Baker's political corpse, but the Home Office minister managed to secure real liberal change
Drug law reform isn't theory anymore – it's practise

A new global report by Kofi Annan, Richard Branson and others aims to build on the momentum of the drug reform movement

Lib Dems ready to decriminalise all drugs

Personal possession of all drugs should be decriminalised, the Liberal Democrats announce
The Sun backs calls for relaxation of drugs laws

Newspaper endorses calls by Nick Clegg for a radical rethink of the law

Clegg signs 'roadmap' to ending war on drugs

Nick Clegg is among the signatories to a controversial report outlining a roadmap toward ending the 'war on drugs', as he continues to push for a more liberal approach to the problem
Tories urge Cameron to surrender the war on drugs

The Conservatives should go into the general election pledging a partial decriminalisation of drugs, an influential Tory group suggests

Exclusive first look: The cannabis legalisation advert

Get an early look at Britain's first ever ad campaign for the legalisation of cannabis
Comment: How much does the war on drugs cost you?

Experiments overseas provide vital clues for how to price cannabis and use it to reduce the deficit.

Could Europe's legal high power-grab be a Trojan Horse for drugs reform?

A largely ignored parliamentary debate this evening could herald a sea change in the way we treat drugs – and open the doors to a more liberal, evidence-based approach.
Who will stop the EU taking control of the UK's drug powers?

Drug reformers should fight EU efforts to take control of our drug laws

Tory wants cannabis legalised 'for medicinal purposes'

A Conservative MP is calling on the government to do more to make cannabis available for those suffering intense pain.
Prison governors hit out at war on drugs

Prison governors have joined the ever-growing list of professional associations and celebrities calling for a rethink of the war on drugs, in a further sign of a sea-change in attitudes.

Comment: Everything Lansley said about drugs is inaccurate

Irrational, reactionary and factually wrong: Andrew Lansley really ticked all the boxes with his response to drugs policy.
Comment: What can the UK learn from New Zealand's radical new drugs bill?

The Kiwis are following a path of harm minimisation rather than criminalisation - and it's about time the UK followed their lead.

Comment: The sloppy journalism which misrepresents cannabis use

Last week's reporting on the effects of decriminalising marijuana was remarkably misguided. The evidence suggests legalisation is the right course of action.
Another day, another call for drug legalisation

The seemingly endless series of reports from parliamentary committees and expert organisations calling for reform of Britain's drug policy continued today, after a cross-party group of peers called for a change in the law.

The Week in Review: How not to introduce gay marriage

Cameron starts the week a liberal hero... and ends it proposing the first anti-gay law since Section 28.
Clegg: We're losing war on drugs 'on an industrial scale'

Nick Clegg has broken ranks with the prime minister on drugs reform, just five days after his coalition partner ruled out a royal commission on decriminalisation.

Analysis: Will Cameron be the prime minister who admits the war on drugs has failed?

David Cameron could launch the biggest rethink of British drug policy for 40 years today, but does he have the bravery to see it through?
'We've lost the war on drugs' Ken Clarke admits

There has been no progress in the government's drug policy, Ken Clarke admitted to the home affairs committee today.