Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about stigma and words relating to substance use. Carl Hart recently wrote a piece arguing that understanding ‘addiction’ as a ‘brain disease’ contributes to …
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Volteface are looking for medicinal cannabis users and carers of all ages and backgrounds to share their story with us. Next week, Coronation Street will run a storyline on medicinal …
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On this month’s episode of The Volteface Podcast, Director of Policy Liz McCulloch is speaking to Megan Jones, Policy Manager for the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner. …
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Imagine a world where most of the global adult population consume a gentle, natural, herbal drug every day that contains psychoactive compounds that relax and revive them. It …
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Why I Oppose The Criminalisation of Drug Use in The Name of Protecting Children
by Web TestThe UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs begins next week. It’s the most significant international drugs summit in twenty years, and as it has drawn nearer I have …
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This edition of the Volteface podcast is audio recorded from the launch of our most recently released report ‘Making the Grade’, written in partnership with Mentor. In a …
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Well, that was unexpected. When I wrote two weeks ago that the third and final instalment of my Prop 64 series (read part one here) would involve ‘rooting through the rubble of …
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Part I: Resurgence in the Jazz Room by Alastair Moore Earlier this year an interesting story caught my attention. California’s East Bay Express posted an article about a Berkeley, …
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From reading the leaked Labour manifesto this morning it is safe to say that the message is one of total abstinence. By that I don’t mean the Labour party …
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There is an elephant-sized headline act on the stage at every music festival up and down the UK. Festival organisers, DJ’s and attendee’s all know it, yet everyone …