Hardeep Matharu

The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has said that drugs should not be decriminalised but that the issue should be looked at through a public health, not criminal justice, lens. …

Stephanie Gaffney and her eight-month-old Elliana, pictured above, are at Cincinnati’s Children’s Hospital Medical Centre. It’s a clinic for babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome, which happens when babies are born …

Is the UK actually fairly tolerant of cannabis use despite its classification as a Class B drug? This is the open-ended conclusion reached by BBC Newsbeat reporter Jim Connolly in …

  “Spice changes your concept of time. If you’re street homeless and you want something to pass your time and misery, Spice is the perfect drug. A day on Spice …

  “People are just pushing it and pushing it and pushing it to see how much they can use. I’ve known people who have been using three to four 10 …

  “It is the great delusion of our time – that we can solve these problems with policing. It seems to persist as every decade goes by, despite all drugs …

  “Addicts should be treated and supported into recovery, removing them as consumers. Their entrapment in criminal justice is a waste of police time, a waste of public spend, does …

  “A couple of weeks before I went to prison, I spent six weeks in hospital with kidney failure because I actually tried to take my own life. Mental health …