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  Swirling colours, delirious patterns, groovy rhythms and otherworldly vistas. These are some of the first things that come to mind when we think about psychedelics. The unique fashion and …

    Eighty three years after Prohibition was repealed, can there be anything new to say about the ‘noble experiment’? Lisa McGirr’s new history The War on Alcohol emphatically answers …

    Graham De Barra, Director of Help Not Harm, brings us the first in a series of weekly updates on the state of play in Ireland leading up to the …

  If you’ve been following drug policy developments in recent months, you will no doubt have heard that Germany is on the brink of legalising medical cannabis. The details of …

George Murkin of drug policy think tank Transform offers his response to Christopher Snowdon’s critique of the expert panel report on cannabis regulation and he would like to correct Christopher …

  Day 4 of the Volteface UNGASS adventure started early. There is no way anyone can claim this is just a holiday when I had to be up at 6am, …

  Writers have pointed out on Volteface before that, as we discuss ‘drug policy’ it’s worth noting that the very concept of ‘drugs’ is flawed, and we shouldn’t even debate …

Part I: Away from prying eyes, free of supervision (Sites in the laneways around Dublin’s hospitality centre) Ana Liffey Drug Project has been lobbying for Medically Supervised Injecting Centres in …

But while CISTA comfortably courted controversy, the coverage exposed perhaps its major stumbling block, being taken seriously. “The first question I was asked during an interview on BBC Radio Ulster …

  Cannabis legalisation in Canada has been back in the news a lot recently, with many prominent members of the country’s medical marijuana community expressing anger at the fact that …