George McBride

  As a parent you teach your children to tell the truth. You don’t expect it to land them in prison. James and his housemates were relaxing in their new …

    Next month the UN will hold the world’s largest summit on drug policy in New York. Those with extensive vested interests in maintaining the war on drugs have …

  Last week VolteFace hosted a panel of experts discussing the escalating drug problem in UK prisons and their proposals for reform. The night opened with a screening of the BBC …

The word ‘crisis’ is overused when it comes to prisons. But there can be no doubt that both prisons and probation are in the sorriest state we have seen in …

I welcome the emphatic departure from his predecessor by unreservedly defending the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary. If Lidington is to succeed, with the odds stacked …

Dear Drug Policy Reform colleagues: As you may remember DPA produced a brief, well-received “in memoriam” presentation during 2015 REFORM conference, to honour colleagues who had passed away in the …

This article originally appeared on Hanway Associates blog. The clock is ticking. Canadian provinces have less than a year in which to decide how, where and by whom cannabis will …

The Ministry of Justice today released it’s latest Safety in Custody Statistics Bulletin. The key message is clear: those in custody and those working in custodial institutions are not safe. …

Before last week, the only time you may have heard of AlphaBay was when they were making headlines selling stolen Uber accounts in 2016. Make no mistake – AlphaBay was …

Friday 14th July was a big day for UK’s drug policy strategists. Many of our best and brightest, including treatment service providers, mental health practitioners, police and probation officers, gathered …