Today is Universal Children’s Day. It marks the day when the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child (1959) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child …
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2018 has been a significant year for cannabis policy, with the Billy Caldwell campaign kicking off in June, The Children’s Inquiry published in September and Canada recently becoming the first …
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Baroness Molly Meacher is not your stereotypical cannabis legalisation campaigner. Smartly dressed in a tailored turquoise jacket and matching necklace, the 76-year-old life peer explains to me that she’s …
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I must make a confession. There are certain pieces that I shy away from writing; there are topics within drug law reform that require such honesty that the …
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Last night’s episode of Dispatches saw the former head of the Metropolitan police travel to Colorado to see if the UK should follow in their footsteps and legalise …
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2015 has been another stunning year for drug law reform around the globe. In all the years I’ve been working in the field I’ve never seen anything like it, …
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York Road is the epicentre of homelessness in the Essex seaside town of Southend. Walking east, away from the High Street, you’ll spot groups of guys huddling in the …
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The is the first of five points in our Manifesto Challenge 2017. Latest national figures from 2015 have seen the highest levels of drug related deaths ever reported in …
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This article was originally published on DrugWise. What do the following have in common? Green apple and rolex; red dragon; yellow grenade; superman; teddy bears and blue ninja turtles. …
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Surveys are fascinating and widely used from political polling to market research but they are not without their problems. Just ask any polling organisation that called the last general election …