Items tagged with decriminalization and UK
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| Cannabis brain effects study struggles to attract black UK users [24.09.2023] | A major study into the effects of cannabis on the human brain is at risk of being partially thwarted because too few black users have agreed to take ... |
| Sadiq Khan appoints drugs tsar to explore legalising cannabis [12.05.2022] | Sadiq Khan has appointed a drugs tsar to explore the potential benefits of legalising cannabis. The mayor has asked Lord Falconer, formerly Lord Chan ... |
| Sadiq Khan drug ‘decriminalisation’ plan ‘does not go far enough’, say experts [05.01.2022] | Sadiq Khan’s proposed plan to end the prosecution of young people caught with cannabis in three London boroughs “does not go far enough”, according t ... |
| Sadiq Khan plans pilot to ‘decriminalise’ minor cannabis offences in London [04.01.2022] | Downing Street has expressed concern over moves to end the prosecution of young people caught with cannabis in some London boroughs, under a pilot sc ... |
| You’ll never have a drug-free society, expert warns UK [07.11.2021] | The Home Office should climb off its “high horse of oppression and prohibition” and stop pursuing the “fantasy” of a drug-free society, the chair of ... |
| Warnings instead of prosecution for Class A drug users [22.09.2021] | People caught with Class A drugs in Scotland could be given a police warning instead of facing prosecution. Officers can already issue a formal warni ... |
| Mayor of London to examine benefits of cannabis legalisation [05.04.2021] | The mayor of London is to launch a review examining the feasibility of decriminalising cannabis as part of a new approach to tackling drug-related cr ... |
| Drug deaths: ‘Scotland should decriminalise and dare Westminster to block it’ [15.01.2021] | Scotland should tackle its drug deaths crisis by pushing towards decriminalisation and daring Westminster to try to block it. The powers to decrimina ... |
| 5 ways the UK could legalise cannabis [02.07.2020] | With more than half of people in the UK in favour of legalising the recreational use of cannabis, and countries around the world adopting more libera ... |
| What can be done about Scotland's drugs crisis? [26.02.2020] | Scotland has the highest rate of drug-related deaths in Europe and the numbers are continuing to rise at an alarming speed. Both the Scottish governm ... |
| Consider decriminalisation to tackle drug death ‘crisis’, say treatment providers in unprecedented plea [01.12.2019] | The future UK government has been urged to consider every available measure to curb the current drug death “crisis”, including decriminalisation, in ... |
| SNP formally backs decriminalisation of drugs [13.10.2019] | The SNP has backed decriminalising the possession and consumption of drugs. At its conference in Aberdeen, a resolution was unanimously passed by del ... |
| Cannabis being decriminalised by back door, MPs warn [27.04.2019] | Police have been accused of decriminalising cannabis by stealth as forces recorded a drop in possession offences of up to 75 per cent in a decade. Mo ... |
| ‘You can’t arrest your way out of record drug-related deaths,’ say police [24.04.2019] | In what is effectively de facto drug decriminalisation, people caught in possession of personal amounts of controlled substances in a number of polic ... |
| Thames Valley Police 'won't arrest drug users' in pilot [17.12.2018] | People found with "small quantities of illegal drugs" will not be arrested and instead urged to engage with support services, as part of a police pil ... |
| Police drugs lead 'impressed' by cannabis clubs [13.11.2018] | Hardyal Dhindsa, who is the lead on substance abuse for the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, has said the war on drugs is not working. ... |
| Majority of British public support legalisation of cannabis, survey reveals [29.10.2018] | The British public strongly supports the legalisation of cannabis, according to a new poll. Fifty-nine per cent of people surveyed strongly support o ... |
| Police ‘decriminalising cannabis’ as prosecutions fall away [14.07.2018] | Police forces are in effect decriminalising cannabis, campaigners say, after uncovering figures that show a substantial fall in the number of prosecu ... |
| The war on drugs has failed: doctors should lead calls for drug policy reform [13.11.2016] | Three United Nations treaties, the oldest from 1961, seek to "advance the health and welfare of mankind" by prohibiting the non-medical use of some d ... |
| These British police forces have stopped arresting drug users [18.10.2016] | People caught carrying personal amounts of drugs, including cocaine and heroin, are being diverted away from the criminal justice system in what coul ... |
| Weed is effectively legal in the UK [22.08.2016] | Arrests for cannabis possession in England and Wales have fallen by 46 percent since 2010. Cautions have dropped by 48 percent and charges by 33 perc ... |
| Health bodies call for drugs to be decriminalised [16.06.2016] | Two leading public health organisations have called for the possession and personal use of all illegal drugs to be decriminalised in the UK. The Roya ... |
| Cannabis users to be given on-the-spot warnings to free up police time [10.12.2015] | People caught with small quantities of cannabis will face on-the-spot warnings from police rather than prosecution. Scottish officers will next month ... |
| Steep fall in cannabis offences points to silent relaxation of drugs policy [17.10.2015] | The number of cannabis possession offences in England and Wales has plummeted since 2011 as forces divert shrinking budgets into tackling more seriou ... |
| Police force gives cannabis users green light to grow drugs [21.07.2015] | Durham Police has given users the green light to grow cannabis at home after declaring that officers will no longer proactively target small scale pr ... |
| Labour's 'appalling gutter politics' on drugs [30.03.2015] | Campaigners for a more evidence-based drug policy are horrified. "It’s a classic and appalling example of gutter politics,” says Martin Jelsma, Direc ... |
| UK should begin decriminalising drugs, say Richard Branson and Nick Clegg [03.03.2015] | Sir Richard Branson and Nick Clegg are urging the UK to begin decriminalising the use and possession of almost all drugs, following the example of Po ... |
| Drugs in the UK: Why we need to talk about regulation and decriminalisation [30.01.2015] | Fighting the war on drugs in the UK costs an estimated £13 billion annually. It has cost lives recently, too; four people died after taking ecstasy p ... |
| Norman Baker: 'Genie is out the bottle' on drug reform [30.10.2014] | Westminster has finally reached a tipping point in the drug debate and radical change is now becoming possible, Norman Baker has said. The Liberal De ... |
| Huge majority thinks 'war on drugs' has failed, new poll finds [04.10.2014] | An increasing proportion of Britons favours a more liberal approach to drugs and would support decriminalisation strategies, according to a comprehen ... |
| Criminologist refutes cannabis-related crime increase claims [07.04.2013] | Criminologist Professor Alex Stevens has refuted media reports that reducing penalties for cannabis possession has led to increased drug use, crime a ... |
| Decriminalise heroin and cocaine says Belfast drugs worker [14.02.2013] | One of Northern Ireland's most senior drugs workers has said that class A drugs like heroin should be decriminalised, regulated and made available on ... |
| Towards a Safer Drug Policy [14.01.2013] | For forty years the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 has formed the corner stone of drug policy in Britain. The emergence of new psychoactive substances (‘le ... |
| Make legal highs available for sale, government urged [14.01.2013] | The least harmful new "legal highs" should be made readily available for sale under strictly regulated conditions rather than being immediately banne ... |
| Decriminalise drugs – it would reduce the level of harm in Britain [13.01.2013] | The all-party parliamentary group on drug policy reform undertook an inquiry into the implications of the arrival of "legal highs" – a new substance ... |
| Nick Clegg and David Cameron clash over drug law reforms [14.12.2012] | Divisions between David Cameron and Nick Clegg over Britain's "war on drugs" emerged on Friday after the Liberal Democrat leader said that current po ... |
| David Cameron urged to take 'now or never' step on drugs reform [09.12.2012] | David Cameron should urgently set up a royal commission to consider all the alternatives to Britain's failing drug laws, including decriminalisation ... |
| Portuguese drug policy shows that decriminalisation can work [09.12.2012] | The Home Affairs Select Committee in the United Kingdom report on drug policy draws on lessons from Portugal’s decriminalisation of drug possession a ... |
| It's drugs politics, not drugs policy, that needs an inquiry [16.10.2012] | What should be researched is not drugs policy but drugs politics, the hold that taboo has on those in power, and the thrall that rightwing newspapers ... |
| Decriminalise drug use, say experts after six-year study [15.10.2012] | A six-year study of Britain's drug laws by leading scientists, police officers, academics and experts has concluded it is time to introduce decrimina ... |
| Class A drugs 'should be decriminalised,' says former drug advisor Professor David Nutt [30.05.2012] | Drugs such as LSD and MDMA should be decriminalised and sold in pharmacies, the government's former chief drug advisor has said. Professor David Nutt ... |
| Liberal Democrats want inquiry into decriminalising drug possession [04.08.2011] | Liberal Democrats are expected to call for an independent inquiry into the decriminalisation of possession of all drugs. A motion to be put at the pa ... |
| Decriminalise possession of drugs, celebrities urge government [02.06.2011] | Dame Judi Dench, Sir Richard Branson, and Sting have joined an ex-drugs minister and three former chief constables in calling for the decriminalisati ... |
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