In this episode Volteface Director Paul North speaks to Kira Weir, Training and Communications Officer at the drugs charity Crew and volunteer at The Loop. Paul and Kira…
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Features
What Do The Club’s Regulars Think Should Be Done With The £100k Remains of The #SaveFabric Fund?
by Web Test“You saved Fabric” reads the banner on the Farringdon club’s Twitter account right now. And that’s right; an arsenal of global followers creating a loud marathon of campaigning, protests,…
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Days before the court appeal was due to begin, which would decide the fate of London super-club, fabric, a surprise settlement was agreed between Islington Council and Fabric owners,…
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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…
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Three perspectives, one conclusion: whilst drugs are illegal, no one is safe. We heard from Neil Woods, former undercover agent and chairman of LEAP UK (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), writer and activist Anne-Marie Cockburn, whose daughter Martha tragically died of an overdose at 15, and veteran drug policy reformer Jane Slater of Transform Drug Policy about why prohibition isn’t working, and how UK drug policy needs to change.
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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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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…
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Dick Puddlecote has been having some fun raking over the mountain of correspondence between Action on Smoking and Health and their sponsors in government. E-mails reveal the vigour with which the vaper’s…
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In the low ethereal glow of a hotel bathroom, the dopamine flows. Two pairs of eyes meet across the bubbles, and serotonin streams like sunlight into the 5-HT receptors…
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This article was originally published by The Conversation under the title ‘Festival drug checking is here, but it now needs to be expanded across the country’. A step towards safer drug…