Volteface Director Paul North recently caught up with Chris*, a long term member of the dark web community, to chat about how dark net markets operate and how to keep safe. This content is published for the purpose of harm reduction, we do not encourage anyone viewing this to purchase illicit substances on the … Continued
Five years ago, Jerusalem-based, Australian investigative journalist, author and film-maker Antony Loewenstein turned his attention from Disaster Capitalism, his book and film, to the war on drugs. In his new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, he investigates the consequences of politically manufactured conflict at front lines across the … Continued
More young people are seeing drug adverts on social media, but what impact is this having on young people? And why has it taken us so long to catch on? Liz McCulloch, Director of Policy and author of DM for Details: Selling Drugs in the Age of Social Media, is in conversation with Nick … Continued
Last week the Volteface team headed to the Docklands for the second annual Big Tent Ideas Festival at Mudchute Farm. To ensure cannabis reform was on the festival’s agenda we hosted ‘In Conversation with Andrew Boff’. London Assembly member Boff, a long term advocate for cannabis reform, sat down with current Editor of Byline … Continued
On this month’s edition of the Volteface Podcast, Paul North catches up with cannabis culture veteran & positive thinker Orson Boon. Up for discussion is the effects of psychedelics with the pair considering potential therapeutic benefits of certain psychedelic drugs. Orson talks through his personal experience of using psychedelics to treat anxiety and discusses the marked … Continued
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 change from the regular format, this feature is a panelled discussion focussing on drug education in schools. We hear from an ex-PRU student, a PRU headteacher, … Continued
On this month’s edition of the Volteface Podcast, Paul catches up with Volteface board member Sunny Hundal. Sunny has been a journalist and commentator on politics and current affairs for more than 15 years. As a commentator, he has been a columnist at The Guardian, Independent, Hindustan Times (India) and Labour List. This feature … Continued
This month on the Volteface Podcast, our Director of Policy Lizzie McCulloch catches up with Oxford University PhD student, and Co-Founder of entOURage Network, Jessica Steinberg. Liz & Jessica discuss women’s experience of regulated markets, both from the perspective of consumers, professionals and entrepreneurs, before honing in on what is like to be a female cannabis … Continued
On this month’s edition of the Volteface Podcast, host Paul North catches up with Dr. Derek Tracy, Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust & Senior Lecturer, King’s College London. On the agenda is an in-depth discussion of cannabis & potential links to mental health issues, the chat that no one … Continued
In the second episode of the Volteface Podcast, Director’s Paul and Liz discuss the recent Centre for Social Justice cannabis report. They talk about the reports data, its recommendations and outline the impact they think it will have on drug reform. Enjoy the show! Our show (as well as the theme music) is recorded … Continued