We’re on the brink of a sea change when it comes to drug policy
This week we learnt that illegal drug-related deaths have now been at or near record levels for five years in a row. Thankfully, policy is shifting.
This week we learnt that illegal drug-related deaths have now been at or near record levels for five years in a row. Thankfully, policy is shifting.
Tory grandee William Hague has written in favour of cannabis decriminalisation. But where do other parties stand on the matter?
They’re supporting giving sex workers the same rights and legal protections as other workers.
The Home Office should immediately amend the law so that soliciting by sex workers is no longer an offence
There is no ‘obvious relationship’ between tough drug laws and levels of drug use, according to a new report.
At the heart of most debates on how the state should respond to the use of controlled drugs is an assumption that the threat of punishment affects levels of use
Dr Michael Shiner, Assistant Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, on the need for the government to stop burying its head in the sand and reform drugs policy.