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  On 14th April 2016, a Public Health Emergency was declared in British Columbia in response to the opioid overdose crisis. Fentanyl, an opioid reportedly 100 times stronger than morphine, …

  There’s a video going viral of police ‘raiding’ a house for drugs in Cardiff by cutting into the front door with a chainsaw. I watched this latest escalation on …

  This article was first published on The BMJ Blog under the title ‘Would the UK benefit from a regulated cannabis market?’ The Liberal Democrats have announced a proposal for cannabis …

  This blog originally appeared on the Mental Elf website, and is reproduced here with the kind permission of the National Elf Service. An enormous experiment is going on all …

  This article originally appeared on Lift. Canada’s formal announcement of its intention to legalize cannabis at a UN meeting earlier this year grabbed headlines around the world. As Canada is the …

  Last week, stories appeared in the press claiming that the second-hand smoke from inmates smoking the legal high ‘spice’, are causing staff to fall ill. VolteFace asked our resident …

  This article was originally published on Huffington Post UK. The closure of one of the UK’s most successful and iconic dance clubs, Fabric, in August this year, has raised …

  This article was first published on The Conversation. Since last year’s release of Chemsex, described by The Guardian as a ‘scary but valuable documentary’, the drug-fuelled sexual practices of …

  This article was first published by Release and is republished here with their kind permission. When the 1960s psychedelic promise of ‘flower power’ faded into the dark 1970s economic crisis, …

  Earlier this month, Mark Kleiman – the doyen of public health academia – shared his Transatlantic Lessons, a stark warning of the potential perils of over commercialising cannabis.  Today, we have …