war on drugs

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has officially announced a public hearing on 2 December 2024 to discuss the proposed rescheduling of cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule …

If there is a lesson to be learnt from the opioid and spice epidemics, it is that substance abuse isn’t solely about drugs and the underlying legal and political framework. …

For those advocating a radical alternative to the war on drugs, lots needs to happen.  In being such an intersectional agenda, a vision beyond prohibition would begin to reshape economic, …

In 2016, then Justice Secretary and co-convener of the Vote Leave campaign, Michael Gove, infamously declared that “people in this country have had enough of experts…from organisations with acronyms saying …

Victorious after Billy and Charlotte Caldwell’s bold struggle to change the legal status of medicinal cannabis in the UK in 2018, 20,000 patients have joined a new front line in …

US President Joe Biden has officially announced that all prior federal offences of cannabis possession are to be pardoned, urging state governors and legislators to do the same.  In a …

The deaths of 16-year-old David Celino and 9-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in the same week in August have scarred the conscience of the nation. Their deaths, in separate circumstances and different …

When Gustavo Petro began his four-year term as Colombia’s new president on 7 August, he inherited a huge, but old problem: how to tackle Colombia’s drug problem. Despite billions of …

  The policy debate around drugs in the UK is muddled and tripolar. It’s split between people who believe in legalization, decriminalization, and continuing prohibition. The drugs prohibition laws we …

The drug war is a checklist of horrors. 27,000 dead. A bloodbath of genocidal proportions. In spite of it all, Duterte’s war remains popular.