What would a Boris Johnson government do about drugs? That is the question many will be left with after reading the 2019 Conservative manifesto. Grand promises have been …
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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 …
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2019 was a jam packed year for all involved with Volteface, from taking crossparty delegations to Canada to seeing the legalisation debate storm into the mainstream, it is …
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The Volteface Podcast #15 Instant Gramz: Drugs and social media with Nick Hickmott
by Ant LehaneMore 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 …
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A version of this article was originally published on LinkedIn. I first made comparisons of the annual mortality rates associated with the use of ecstasy and other activities in …
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Ethan Nadelmann must have felt quite out of place deep in the bowels of Waterloo station… Each rumble of a train passing overhead a reminder that he was not …
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We employ a number of analogies within the drug reform world – Wild West being one of the main ones. We have entered a phase of ad hoc drug …
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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 …
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The human rights implications of drug policy and drug use are many and varied. In the latest instalment of their exclusive series of articles for VolteFace, Kate Thompson and Petr Kudêlka …
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VolteFace invited journalist and writer Alex Stewart, former Metropolitan police officer and presenter of BBC’s Thief Trackers, to review a new, eye-opening account of life as an undercover police …