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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Legalising UK cannabis would generate over £1 billion a year in tax 💰🍃 With the budget approaching, it’s time for evidence-led public spending. Legalising UK cannabis offers the possibility of vast revenue and significant public savings Full report: transformdrugs.org/publications...

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Anyone's Child: Families For Safer Drug Control @anyoneschild.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

📣Leicester: Take Drugs Seriously📣 📆19th Nov - 6.00 - 8.30pm📆 📍Hansom Hall, 50-54 Belvoir Street, LE1 6QL📍 Join this in-person discussion about what a new approach to drugs could mean for Leicester, your family and your community. Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/leicester-...

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

We are hiring!🚨 Transform is looking for a new Treasurer to join our board of Trustees! We are looking for a qualified accountant, preferably with experience in the charity sector for this remote and voluntary role. Apply by 3rd November: www.charityjob.co.uk/volunteer-jo...

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Transform Treasurer | Transform Drug Policy Foundation | CharityJob

Apply now for Transform Treasurer. , Unpaid role, expenses paid, find a career with meaning today

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We were delighted to attend the Green Party conference to take part in Common Ground Justice Project’s event, Breaking Through the Noise. Our CEO, Jane Slater spoke about a new approach to crime and justice and how this relates to our drug policy reform work at Transform.

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

💚 @greenparty.org.uk leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social backs legalisation of all drugs 💚 ‘The war on drugs has absolutely failed, and ultimately we need to be having a public health approach’ - Polanski speaking to BBC South East ahead of his party conference.

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

We are hiring!🚨 We are looking for an individual passionate about drug reform to help with fundraising and organisational support. Bristol (Hybrid) £25 - 30k FTE Part-time (2-3 days/week) 6 month contract (possibility to extend) Apply by 5th October: www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/transfo...

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Fundraising and Organisational Support | Transform Drug Policy Foundation | CharityJob

Apply now for Fundraising and Organisational Support. , £25,000 - £30,000 per year FTE, find a career with meaning today

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Maybe - but she's a bereaved mum doing a live media interview. This isn't a Lancet paper.

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

She is taking about the potential for falling purity and increased chances of adulteration/cutting agents

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Vicky's daughter Louise died after using ketamine But unlike the PCC & UK Home Office calls for more punishment, Vicky's tragedy galvanised her resolve to campaign for pragmatic health-led policies & regulation with Transform & @anyoneschild.bsky.social see anyoneschild.org for more info 2/2

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Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug Control

It's time for drug laws that protect – rather than endanger – young people and their families.

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

"Upgrading ketamine to Class A just means that young ppl will take dirtier drugs, the money will go to the dealers. no one wins" BBC report on last week's @anyoneschild.bsky.social #SupportDontPunish parliamentary lobby - Including interview with Transform Trustee, Vicky Unwin t.co/dVgOxvpetG 1/

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This guest blog by @mikejay.bsky.social Mike Jay was originally published in the New Statesman, reproduced with permission Mike Jay is a cultural historian, author, & former Transform Trustee mikejay.net His books include the recent: 'Psychonauts: drugs & the making of the modern mind' 2/

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🚨NEW BLOG🚨 "Ketamine has no deep history or hinterland: it is a product of pharmaceutical modernity. Its multiple identities mirror the broad spectrum of its effects...from a mild & pleasant giddiness to a white-knuckle ride into another dimension" transformdrugs.org/blog/how-bri... 1/

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🚨NEW BLOG🚨 *Harm reduction as a form of resistance* The amazing plenary speech by Michelle Wazan, from @Skoun_org in Lebanon, at the @HRInews #HRI25 conference in Bogota last month transformdrugs.org/blog/michell...

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Harm reduction as a form of resistance | Transform

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Speakers include: 🔵Saket Priyadarshi, Clinical Lead at The Thistle OPC, Glasgow 🔵Meg Jones, Cranstoun, national harm reduction and support service provider 🔵Adam Holland, Clinical Academic at Bristol University More speakers to be announced..... eventbrite.com/e/next-steps... 3/3

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Next steps for Bristol as a harm reduction and inclusive recovery city

Timely discussion hosted by Transform in partnership with the University of Bristol on why Bristol needs an Overdose Prevention Centre

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This is a unique opportunity to learn, collaborate, & contribute to building a healthier, more compassionate city. As drug deaths continue to rise (especially involving synthetic opioids) this event brings together local stakeholders to explore practical solutions emerging challenges 2/

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Healthcare professionals, police, community leaders, policymakers & Bristol residents are invited to join Transform & the University of Bristol in shaping the next steps for drug harm reduction & treatment in Bristol: 7pm Thursday 17th July at City Hall eventbrite.com/e/next-steps... 1/

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Next steps for Bristol as a harm reduction and inclusive recovery city

Timely discussion hosted by Transform in partnership with the University of Bristol on why Bristol needs an Overdose Prevention Centre

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SteveRolles @steverolles.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I talked to the @theLDNstandard podcast yesterday about the good and bad of the London Mayor's cannabis commission report - & the future of cannabis reforms in the UK (first 10 mins) 👇 Also available on apple podcasts, spotify etc. podfollow.com/the-standard...

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The Standard: Will London decriminalise cannabis?

As the Mayor of London urges the government to consider decriminalising possession of small amounts of cannabis, Steve Rolles, a senior policy analyst for Transform Drugs Policy Foundation, unpacks...

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SteveRolles @steverolles.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The Exec Director of UN Office on Drugs & Crime, Ghada Fathi Waly, has apparently resigned. Awaiting more info - & can only speculate as to the reasons, but seems likely related to massive funding cuts and broader institutional crisis at the failing agency. 1/

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Tom Blickman @tomblickman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The non-enforcement on the sale of illegal hashish in participating coffee shops within the Dutch cannabis experiment will be extended once more until 1 September 2025. This decision was taken following signals of shortages of regulated hashish. 1/2 cannabisindustrie.nl/verlenging-g...

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Tijdelijke gedoogperiode voor illegale hasj in wietexperiment verlengd tot 1 september 2025

De tijdelijke gedoogperiode van illegale hasj in het wietexperiment wordt verlengd tot 1 september 2025 maakten de ministers bekend.

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Zoë Garbett @zoegarbett.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Resharing from @transformdrugs.bsky.social report release 2 months ago about how much a legally regulated cannabis market could bring into the economy....

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Read our book: 'How to Regulate Cannabis: A Practical Guide' transformdrugs.org/publications... New report: 'High returns: the economic benefits of Cannabis regulation in the UK' transformdrugs.org/publications... Support our #LegaliseUKcannabis campaign justgiving.com/campaign/leg... 8/🧵

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How to Regulate Cannabis: A Practical Guide, 3rd Edition | Transform

Early experiences of cannabis legalisation have brought the issues of social and racial justice to the fore. In this revised and updated version, Transform aims to spell out how to build a regulatory ...

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

We are long overdue a change to this hopelessly failed policy - and this new report only proposes half the job (decrim), whilst arguably undermining the equally necessary other half (regulation). So......good but no (legal & regulated) cigar. 7/🧵

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

We hope that the Govt will finally show leadership on this important debate, raised by a high profile Labour Mayor. Cannabis reforms command widespread public support, save police resources and taxpayers money, as well as reducing social & health harms of criminalisation. 6/🧵

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

As such the Commission goes little further than the Police Foundation report (the Runciman report) from 25 years ago (and various Select Committee reports down the years) - which we also criticised at the time for needless timidity. 5/🧵

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The almost apologetic 'wait & see' position is untenable given the obvious harms of the status quo. There's unknowns re regulation (tho we now know a lot about how to do it properly) But leaving the mkt in the hands of unregulated organised crime groups helps no one 4/🧵

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

It is, however, profoundly disappointing that the Commission failed to call for meaningful moves toward a legally regulated market - even rejecting (on the weakest of grounds) home growing provisions, or non-commercial models being implemented in Europe 3/🧵

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

We welcome the acknowledgement of the harms of a failed punitive cannabis policy - decriminalising possession is an important & long overdue move, already widely adopted across the world, & recommended by the UN & various Royal Colleges of Medicine 2/🧵 t.co/hcOi4tIS8S

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The London Mayor's drug commission report is finally published today. It makes a welcome call for decriminalisation of cannabis possession but disappointingly stops short of recommending any form of legal regulation of cannabis markets. THREAD 1/🧵 t.co/q3N27YTK7S

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https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/mayors-office-policing-and-crime-mopac/mopac-governance-and-decision-making/london-drugs-commission

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

🚨NEW (guest) BLOG🚨 *Protecting communities means protecting Safer Consumption Facilities* Kirsten Horsburgh reflects on the opening of the UK's first SCF "people who use drugs deserve safety, too. They are part of the community - not separate from it" transformdrugs.org/blog/protect...

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International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) @idpc.net · 20/05/2025

🕊️ The creation of a panel of independent experts to review the UN drug control system is a once-in-a-generation chance to move away from the punitive status quo. 📘 Our latest advocacy note outlines what it will take to make it count: idpc.net/publications...

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Repairing the “machinery”: Recommendations and expectations for the independent review of international drug policy commitments

IDPC lays out key considerations and aspirations for the independent panel established by the CND to review the UN drug control system, highlighting potential pitfalls to avoid to make this review…

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International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) @idpc.net · 20/05/2025

🇺🇳 UN SG antonioguterres.bsky.social — your leadership can shape the future of drug policy! 183 civil society groups urge you to take bold and inclusive action in the upcoming global review! 📄Open letter: idpc.net/news/2025/05...

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183 civil society groups urge UN Secretary-General to lead historic global drug policy review with a bold, inclusive and transformative vision

Global civil society groups call on the UN Secretary-General to ensure the independence, credibility and representativeness of the UN review's expert panel, and to champion meaningful,…

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Find out more about the Mayor of Amsterdam's 'Dealing with drugs' initiative, developed in partnership with Transform, IDPC, TNI, Correlation network and Mainline, here: transformdrugs.org/blog/cities-...

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Cities for drug reform: Act Locally, Think Globally | Transform

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"Many leaders privately agree but fear the political fallout of going public. Behind closed doors, I get a lot of support. The mayor of Bern openly supports me, as does Claudia López, the former mayor of Bogotá. Awareness is also growing within police, justice and health services."

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"Take MDMA: it’s less harmful than alcohol yet has been banned since the late 1980s. The consequence? The Netherlands is now the world’s biggest producer, resulting in illegal labs and drug wars. We want to investigate how much tax we are losing and what a regulated market could look like" 2/

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Where too many politicians lack the courage to challenge the failed 'war on drugs', Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema has showed pragmatic leadership: "why leave a health-risk product to criminals? Alcohol & medicine are regulated, why not [currently illegal] drugs?" monocle.com/affairs/amst... 1/

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Amsterdam’s rebel mayor on sex, drugs and tourists - Monocle

Femke Halsema, the Dutch capital’s first female mayor, doesn’t shy away from radical yet rational policymaking. Here she tells us...

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The need for a UK-wide roll-out is even more urgent in the context of the growing threat from nitazene/synthetic opioid penetration of opioid mkts for more information on supervised consumption/overdose prevention facilities see Transform's resource page here 👇 transformdrugs.org/drug-policy/...

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Overdose prevention centres | Transform

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Glasgow's supervised drug consumption facility was accessed 2,691 times in its first 4 months, with 30 medical emergencies attended too There's huge unmet nationwide demand for SDCF/OPCs, proven to reduce harm, save lives & facilitate service access pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/news... 1/

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UK’s first safer drug consumption facility accessed more than 2,500 times in first four months, data show

The UK’s first safer drug consumption facility (SDCF) in Glasgow has been accessed 2,691 times during the four months it has been open, according to data published by the Glasgow City Health and Socia...

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SteveRolles @steverolles.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The legal distribution of cannabis *can* reduce consumption and problematic consumption, especially among people who also use other drugs, according to a Swiss study published in Addiction (journal) t.co/UPDwKKvLSg 1/

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🚨NEW BLOG🚨 Lessons from Colombia: From harm reduction to legal regulation What we learned about drug reform, social justice and cocaine regulation in our two community dialogues held in Bogota and Cali, Colombia last week 👇 transformdrugs.org/blog/lessons...

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Lessons from Colombia: from harm reduction to legal regulation | Transform

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Health Poverty Action @healthpoverty.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

📢 How could the legal regulation of drugs deliver #TradeJustice? A legally regulated market, if rooted in principles of transitional justice, could give people the opportunity to produce and trade drugs without fear, earn decent wages, and support sustainable economic growth. #DrugPolicyReform 🧵

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SteveRolles @steverolles.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Welcome to see this in-depth and non-terrible feature on Nitazenes in the Daily Mail I've issues with the exploitative photos, & stigmatizing language ('zombies') But for the Daily Mail it's pretty comprehensive and balanced (quoting me & the drgs minister) www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... 1/🧵

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How drug TWO THOUSAND times the strength of heroin is killing Brits

EXCLUSIVE: MailOnline analysis of data from the UK's only drug testing facility has revealed two-thirds of 'medication' tested in the past year has been laced with nitazenes.

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Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk · 08/04/2025

Spot the difference 🔎 Left: A Guinness ad near an Irish primary school before a complaint. Right: After the complaint - now Guinness 0.0. A dangerous loophole lets alcohol brands dodge ad restrictions by promoting zero-alcohol products. It's time to close it. Found by @jameslarkin13.bsky.social

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

THREAD🧵 The 68th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) took place in Vienna last month Key takeaways: 🔹Colombia's historic resolution to review the drug control system 🔹Growing discussions around coca/cocaine regulation 🔹The belligerent & obstructive new US delegation 1/

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Global Drug Policy: “Countries are being freed up to actually speak their minds” John Walsh from @WOLA_org, @AnnFordham from @IDPCnet and Isabel Pereira from @Dejusticia_en explore last month's momentous UN CND in Vienna - on the WOLA podcast. www.wola.org/multimedia/g...

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Global Drug Policy: “Countries are being freed up to actually speak their minds” - WOLA

For the second year in a row, what had been an uneventful, consensus-driven United Nations meeting on drug policy saw...

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

An overlooked cost of cannabis prohibition is the forgone environmental benefits of the plants many positive (non-drug) uses Here @julyanlevy.bsky.social flags 5 potential benefits of cannabis/hemp for a greener economy (& refs our new economic analysis)👇 theconversation.com/five-ways-ca...

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It was a strangle moment - there was a mixture of hissing, laughing, booing, and sharp intakes of breath

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Transform Drug Policy Foundation @transformdrugs.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

They voted against anything that mentioned gender or SDGs whether they agreed with the rest of it or not. Here's the US plenary speech they gave to explain their objection to the alternative development resolution - but it was essentially the same, and equally obnoxious, for all of them

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