Drugs can often prove to be an arduous, convoluted conversation. To try and unpick the tangled knot that is global drug policy is fairly impossible. The acclaimed film, Breaking the Taboo, is perhaps treading new ground in its concise and non-excluding format that enables everyone to engage in...

It was an inescapable front-page. Middle-England's comic book, the Daily Mail, decided to run a rather splenetic headline even by their baneful standards. Whilst addressing the tragic deaths of six children the 'newspaper' decided to dispense with sensitivity in favour of pushing agenda - the headline read: Vile Product of...

Transform Drug Policy Foundation has released results from an Ipsos MORI poll showing that 53% of the British public are ready to 'legalise or decriminalise' cannabis. The findings received various different reports from the mainstream press, including the Daily Mail's usual flavour of

"When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all."

- A quote that's so familiar that it's become seamless in our collective vernacular. As clichéd as the sentiment is, it may have lost it's visceral relevance.

As...

The influential Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) is set to recommend a Royal Commission on drugs policy amidst an ever growing call for change to our national drug strategy. The HASC has been taking evidence for a year which concluded with a global conference on 10 September.

It's the film that's now short-listed for an Oscar; it's a movie that was picked as 'film of the week' on BBC1's Film 2012, so impacting is the documentary's premise that the presenters of Film 2012, Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh, both hailed the movie as one of...

It was the dawning hours, Obama was inching ever closer to victory, but as the UK slept, ready and waiting to see who 'leader of the free world' was going to be, there were many pairs of British eyes who were paying close attention to other ballots and initiatives.

What do most 24 year olds have to contend with? Job searching, house hunting if they're lucky; living for the weekend if we're to grossly generalise? But what if your entire life changes in a heartbeat and your entire existence is shaken to its foundation?

Clark French was 24 years...

The news was full of the story: Cannabis Use Lowers IQs. There were a myriad of reactions, everyone had something to say, and as expected, there was a polarised discussion as a result of the study.

The report in question, a 40 year longitudinal study,...

I had high hopes, no pun intended, as Russell Brand's usual display of eloquence is enough to draw people into the drugs debate. His humanistic approach based on deep-rooted personal experience is admirable. I was, however, increasingly disappointed by the unbalanced programme: From Addiction to Recovery. Airing on...

A conversation with Adam Scorgie

The film industry has had a torrid time over the last few years: Illegal downloads, the advent of home cinema, YouTube; they've all contributed to the waning affluence of the silver screen. Add to this mix the fact that documentaries are known...

There's an inherent danger in any sector of education: if the teachings fail to measure up to the truth, then we'll be paving the way for a deep distrust and a greater apathy. With this in mind, it is of tremendous enthusiasm that we welcome Professor Nutt's book: Drugs -...

As a drug policy pedant, it was with great interest that I noted BBC Three's Free Speech were to address the drugs debate - the discourse had raged on Free Speech's social media and blogs for a few weeks prior to the show.

Triggered by

Dear Winston Matthews,

Words simply cannot express how I felt when I learned of your incarceration. You are currently serving 16 months in prison. Your crime? The cultivation of cannabis to treat your pain. Like many, you are more than aware of the harmful legacy that pharmaceutical drugs can bestow;...

On Wedndesday 7 March, I was invited to attend the first show of BBC Three's Free Speech. This dynamic, live, new debate show was certainly of interest to me.

Aimed at the younger end of the voting demographic, I was soon pondering as to why a youth based...

Did you see the debate? A debate with a host of celebrities: Russell Brand, Sir Richard Branson; world leaders, and eminent opinion formers. Oh, and Peter Hitchens was in attendance. A debate of such magnitude would surely not creep under the radar? Especially given the gravitas of the contested subject?

I'm not a fan of rebuttals, they can often be interpreted as rude or standoffish. This is certainly not the flavour of my reply, and so with this ample disclaimer in place, I would like to politely address Mr Rupert Wolfe-Murray's first HuffPo blog; Can Cannabis Drive You...

The past week has seen Rod Liddle inflame debate in his almost non sequitur type piece. Following on, James Delingpole, in his Telegraph blog, has decided to back Mr Liddle's sentiments up. I would like to take the time to cordially respond.

With header of 'The...

It was a Thursday evening like any other. I was eating a meal and flipping through a publication that I'm not a fan of, but as it lay idle on my parents' table, I thought I'd treat myself.

It was around this time my phone and mail alerts started pinging...

Drug policy reform has received many endorsees, from Kofi Annan and Richard Branson, to a fleet of Nobel Prize winners and an array of prominent figures. Despite this, little media attention has been given to the damaging nature of current policy. There is, perhaps,...