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Carrie Lou Hamilton

@carrielouhamilton.bsky.social
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Author - Editor - Translator (Sp-En) On-and-off academic #drugpolicy #feminism #harmreduction #veganism 💚 Hackney Greens / Green Drug Policy 💚 Newsletter on #Activism and #Writing peninfist.substack.com linktr.ee/clouhamilton

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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This is a misleading question! LEGAL REGULATION of drugs RESTRICTS ACCESS to drugs/ unlike the free for all of illegally sold drugs we have under prohibition and Labour.
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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
📊 New polling from YouGov shows the Green Party going up and Reform going down. 📈 Let's keep narrowing that gap! 💚 Hope will win. Join.greenparty.org.uk
A green campaign graphic headed “BRADFORD DISTRICT GREEN PARTY” with large text reading “GREEN PARTY GOING UP.” Two upward arrows show percentages “17%” and “24%.” Below, text reads “REFORM GOING DOWN” above a photo of Nigel Farage looking down. In the top right, Mothin Ali and Zack Polanski smile and raise their fists in celebration. Bottom text says “YouGov 15th–16th Feb 2026,” along with the link “join.greenparty.org.uk,” the Green Party logo, and small promoter text stating it was promoted by D Parkinson on behalf of Bradford District Green Party with a Shipley address.
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Best way to support Hannah snd the Greens. If you can’t get there in person please sign for phone banking on the Gorton and Denton Green Party website 💚
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
1/15 The Labour Party are coming for the Green Party on drug policy. And they are doing it by sensationalising and mispresenting the policy. This is politics driven by focus group, that aims to smear and misinform at best - or lie and disinform at worst.
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
If you are a @greenparty.org.uk member and you haven't voted in the general executive elections yet, I have 17 interviews with candidates on my youtube to help you make your decisions. youtube.com/@edpoole1942...
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Ed Poole
Political activist, NHS, Unison, Villa. Views my own.
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
My latest publication in @redpeppermag.bsky.social on why it’s high time for the UK left -all of it!!! - to get behind the full legal regulation of all drugs. Think racist policing, class prejudice, state violence… #harmreduction @greendrugpolicy.bsky.social www.redpepper.org.uk/society/heal...
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How the left can support drug law reform - Red Pepper
It’s high time for the UK left to support comprehensive drug policy reform, driven by anti-racism and class consciousness, argues Carrie Lou Hamilton
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
"With some exceptions – notably extraparliamentary radicals and anarchists – the UK left has largely followed the drugs status quo" It’s high time for the UK left to support comprehensive drug policy reform argues @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social www.redpepper.org.uk/society/heal...
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How the left can support drug law reform - Red Pepper
It’s high time for the UK left to support comprehensive drug policy reform, driven by anti-racism and class consciousness, argues Carrie Lou Hamilton
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megan @meganmay.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It’s absolutely outrageous that @ameliagentleman.bsky.social has written this article and hasn’t included a single word from sex worker-led organisations or outreach charities that work with sex workers who oppose these proposals. Where is the balance? Where are the voices of actual sex workers?
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It’s hard to describe just how inspirational and admired Peter Krykant was for #harmreduction activists. His bravery and compassion have made real, life-saving change for drug users in the UK. Solidarity and gratitude forever.
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Bookmarked!
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#drugpolicy #harmreduction
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
#harmreduction @greendrugpolicy.bsky.social
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
#harmreduction #London @greendrugpolicy.bsky.social
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Good piece from @anyoneschild.bsky.social on why reclassifying ketamine to Class A is the wrong approach. #drugpolicy #harmreduction #ketamine anyoneschild.org/2025/05/why-...
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Why reclassification won’t solve the ketamine crisis
A voice from the frontline. Ketamine, harm reduction and the increasing impact of prohibition.
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
5 years after millions marched to protest the racist murder of George Floyd, a damning report about the militarisation of policing and borders in the UK #abolition #noborders #blacklivesmatter www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK Border Force is in effect under military command, report says
Institute of Race Relations says MoD’s Channel role reflects global rise of ‘hyper-militarisation’ in law enforcement
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Mainstream Western media just never provides the details of the sheer f*cking destruction if Gaza. Our governments are responsible for this hell. Never forget that. Never let them forget it. www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
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‘Render it unusable’: Israel’s mission of total urban destruction
Bulldozers and explosives are flattening Gaza from the ground — what soldiers say is a systematic campaign to make the Strip unlivable.
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The only rule you need is Don’t do it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Keep calm (but delete your nudes): the new rules for travelling to and from Trump’s America
Many people have decided a trip to the US isn’t worth the risk after recent border detentions. But if you are going, what do you need to know? Immigration lawyers explain it all
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The job of politics is to convince people that moral policies must be adopted, not to adopt immoral policies in order to chase votes. The Labour Party is the opposite of politics. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Labour targets international students claiming asylum after losses to Reform in local elections
Exclusive: Ministers understood to be drafting white paper this month in move to reduce legal migration
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
💚💚💚
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Why is this man still speaking? And why is anyone listening to him? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate plan based on phasing out fossil fuels doomed to fail, says Tony Blair
Former PM claims net zero policies losing public support and says there should be greater focus on carbon capture
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
#harmreduction @filtermag.bsky.social filtermag.org/harm-reducti...
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Harm Reduction Activists Gather in Bogotá, as World Grows More Hostile
Around 1,000 people from 70 countries are participating, at a time when all are acutely conscious of the ideologies that threaten their work.
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Mark Carney named Canada's Next Top Colonizer
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
When the world is this sh*t you gotta take the victories you can. Good riddance Pierre. Take your anti-harm-reduction hate machine to h*ll with you. #harmreduction #canada ottawacitizen.com/news/pierre-...
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Conservatives lose election; Poilievre loses Carleton riding
The Conservative leader will not be the next prime minister, nor will he return as a local MP.
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Not THE story of the night. But good point. Women over 50 rock just as we are, not as people under 40 think we should look (just wait babies, you’ll be here soon enough!)
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Part 2
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Important post re: victory of Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) in yesterday’s election.
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Miki 🧢⬆️ @mikililmo.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Basic income costs less than poverty. #UBI Now
A tweet from Basic Income UK
A salmon pink background 
White letters says,
Basic 
Income
costs
less than
poverty.

Small print at bottom says,
leadnow
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
anyoneschild.org/10-year-anni...
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Lobby of Parliament 24/06/25 Lobby Of Parliament 24/06/25
Lobby of Parliament 24/06/25 - Anyone's Child -
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This anti-trans ruling is a threat to all of us. More hate. More exclusion. Thanks @carladenyer.bsky.social for your words and solidarity.
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
“Whether the [UK] government will revise its drug policies accordingly remains to be seen.” By @matthabusby.bsky.social in @filtermag.bsky.social We won’t hold our breath… @greendrugpolicy.bsky.social filtermag.org/uk-goverment...
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UK Govt. Publishes Report Indicating Drug Policing Boosts Violence
The findings, which echo earlier evidence, are less startling than the fact the government published them. Will it act accordingly?
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The world is turning upside down and poor #Pollievre still thinks he can rescue his doomed campaign by attacking #harmreduction and PWUD. Fools fools everywhere. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Poilievre takes aim at harm reduction, vows to fund addiction treatments for 50,000 people
Meanwhile, Mark Carney speaks with Britain’s Keir Starmer as PM to discuss ‘unjust’ U.S. tariffs and the need to strengthen trading relationships
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"While certain services like wound care may still be offered at the hubs, the removal of supervised consumption services means they may no longer be a point of entry for people seeking wound care. ... [The transitioning sites] will also no longer be able to offer syringe services or safe supply."
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Cafes should just stop selling dairy milk altogether. NOT to avoid “discriminating” against vegans and people with food intolerances. To help end the abomination that is industrial animal agriculture. #Veganism is a political movement, not a consumerist identity. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Peta urges Gail’s Bakery to drop extra charge for plant milk
Animal rights charity argues surcharge of 40-60p discriminates against dairy-free customers
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Turn Left Media @turnleftmedia.co.uk · 23/03/2025
"Legalise ALL Drugs" Curtis Talks To @zoegarbett.bsky.social Playing now! 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfZh...
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Green Party Drug Policy @greendrugpolicy.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Drug policy is a feminist issue. No. 47 incoming from our own @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
My latest. Thanks to @garthmullins.bsky.social Mullins for a great interview about his new memoir “Crackdown”.
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Garth Mullins @garthmullins.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"The drug user movement is constantly losing our members & our leaders. Our very capacity to fight is constantly under siege from the grave. We are being disorganized by death, by social murder. We are not what we were. We are now a ghost-bloodied movement." www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...
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Episode 50: The Toll — Crackdown Podcast
It’s the end of an era in Canada. On March 10th – after nine years in power – Mark Carney replaced Justin Trudeau as Canada’s Prime Minister. We mark the occasion by looking back at Trudeau’s legacy o...
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“Residential school denialism can be defined as “the rejection, the twisting or [the] misrepresentation of basic facts about residential schooling”, Carleton told Al Jazeera.” www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
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‘Denying our truth’: Fighting residential school denialism in Canada
Rejecting the full history of the institutions and the harms Indigenous children faced is a form of hate, survivors say.
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The Canadian Encyclopedia asked @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I to help set the record straight on the legacy of John A. Macdonald. Rather than unapologetically celebrate Macdonald, we argue he should be remembered, not exalted or emulated: www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/j...
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John A. Macdonald Was No Friend to Indigenous Peoples
More than a century and a half after the formal birth of the nation he played a lead role in creating, debate continues around Sir John A. Macdonald and his gov...
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
American hegemony and the complexities of global chains of supply make boycotts of IS products really hard. But in spirit it’s great to see these initiatives. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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How to identify Quebec products if you're boycotting U.S. goods | CBC News
Some Quebecers are boycotting American products after U.S. President Donald Trump declared he would impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports.
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
What part of “international drug trade” do the fools in Washington not understand? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Nearly one-third of seized fentanyl attributed to the U.S.-Canada border had no connection with Canada
Finding undermines assertions by Trump administration that Canada is a rapidly growing source of fentanyl in the U.S.
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
My latest - from @filtermag.bsky.social . Thanks to the brilliant Judy Chang
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 26/01/2025
"Transform" is one word for this, @globalnews.ca. Others would be "violent dismantling of marginalized communities," "land seizure by developers," or "fascist urban takeover." Shameful bit of news propaganda, reprinting Ken Sim's every key message without critique. 1/
Vancouver to transform Downtown Eastside by pausing supportive housing, cracking down on crime
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Filter | harm reduction journalism @filtermag.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It's unclear if Derek Maltz will get the permanent role, but his anti-cannabis, anti-harm reduction stances, and vocal support for Trump's "terrorist" designation for trafficking groups, send a clear signal. Alexander Lekhtman reports:
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Trump’s Ominous Acting-DEA Administrator Appointment
President Donald Trump has appointed Derek Maltz as acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Senate confirmation would be ...
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thanks @zoegarbett.bsky.social!
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Tilsen added: “Leonard Peltier’s liberation is our liberation – we will honor him by bringing him back to his homelands to live out the rest of his days surrounded by loved ones, healing, and reconnecting with his land and culture.” #LeonardPeltier www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Biden commutes life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, 80
Native American activist spent half a century in prison over 1975 murder of two FBI agents in South Dakota
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My first publication of 2025, a review of "Sassafras" by Rebecca Huntley: “A timely book [that] highlights both the value and the limitations of memoir for understanding the current psychedelic renaissance”. #MDMAtherapy #memoir #PsychedelicRenaissance www.talkingdrugs.org/review-sassa...
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Review: "Sassafras: A Memoir of Love, Loss and MDMA Therapy" - TalkingDrugs
A review of Sassafras: A Memoir of Love, Loss and MDMA Therapy reminds us of the values of new medicines and the need for patient access.
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
As usual, the Met protecting the state and its violent alliances, violating the rights of the people and lying to cover it up. Scandalous.
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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