Just under a third of prisoners say it is easy to get drugs in prison. Seven per cent say they have developed an addiction while incarcerated.
Conventional courts focus on the crime being tried, when the real problem that needs to be addressed lies within the individual who committed it.
The leading addiction expert Dr Robert Lefever says the Government’s proposal is right.
The reason why heroin use is falling in Europe but rising in the USA.
Public health builds mechanisms for limitless state interference in our lives but with no clear case for why living longer justifies overriding personal freedom.
Lord Farmer’s maiden speech yesterday in a debate on Women, Homelessness, Domestic Violence and Social Exclusion.
Public and media opinion have shifted while Westminster’s stance on the failing War on Drugs remains the same. How long will the mismatch last?
Tackling the demand for an illegal product could be a better tactic than either banning or regulating its supply.
As it stands, it’s too easy for drug users to “game” the system – or avoid punishment if they do get caught.
A mixed economy, an internationalist country, live and let live – the ideals I’d like to see it stand for.
Both are socially evil and should be prosecuted on the basis of sufficient evidence.
Before allowing cannabis to circulate freely in the adult population we have to ask what effect this would have on its availability to children
Danny Alexander would rather have his cold, blood-spattered, lifeless body hauled off to the morgue than see a cut in the top rate of tax
While cannabis might be relatively harmless to policy-makers, the same does not apply to ordinary working people.
A blanket ban may seem disproportionate, but is necessary to stay ahead of the chemists and suppliers who deal in these substances.