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Drugs policy

March 2023

  • Nitrous oxide

    UK’s drug advisory panel rejects calls for nitrous oxide ban

    ACMD says sale and possession of laughing gas for recreational use should not be barred despite Home Office desire for crackdown

February 2023

  • Two drug users prepare cocaine before they inject it.

    Scotland’s drug death epidemic may have peaked, data suggests

  • Cannabis oil in bottles with lettering CBD on white background.

    Oxford study to trial cannabis-based medicine as treatment for psychosis

  • Silhouettes of people dancing at a nightclub

    Dominic Perrottet’s hardline stance on drugs is ‘magical thinking’, says pill testing advocate

  • Pink coloured Ecstasy tablet illegal drugs Pills<br>Pink coloured Ecstasy tablet illegal drugs Pills.

    Prescribing MDMA and psilocybin: who will get the drugs and how will they help?

  • ‘Gets police out of the lives of drug users’: decriminalization move takes effect in Canadian province

  • First Dog on the Moon
    Legalising cannabis could raise billions in taxes. Think of what we could do with that money!

    First Dog on the Moon

January 2023

  • Discarded nitrous oxide cylinders

    UK ban on laughing gas sale or possession poised to go ahead

    Suella Braverman pushing plan to change law on laughing gas as part of crackdown on antisocial behaviour
  • Discarded nitrous oxide canisters

    Laughing gas could be banned from sale in antisocial behaviour crackdown

    There are concerns over health effects of inhalation but exemptions would apply for ‘legitimate reason’ to buy nitrous oxide
  • Composite design of El Chapo's arrest by Marines in Mexico.

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: El Chapo: what the rise and fall of the kingpin reveals about the war on drugs – podcast

    From 2019: As the capture and conviction of Mexico’s notorious drug lord has shown, taking down the boss doesn’t mean taking down the organisation. By Jessica Loudis

December 2022

  • Then Cleveland police and crime commissioner Barry Coppinger (left) and Daniel Ahmed, clinical lead for the Middlesbrough heroin assisted treatment programme, at the launch of the scheme in October 2019.

    A treatment-based approach to tackling hard drugs that works

    Letters: Barry Coppinger writes about the successes of heroin-assisted treatment in Middlesbrough. Plus a letter from Dr Michael Symonds
  • Simon Jenkins

    Even England’s police want to decriminalise hard drugs. Why won’t our posturing politicians listen

    Simon Jenkins
    Police chiefs’ plan to recommend addiction services would be far more effective than this ‘war on drugs’, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
  • Close-up photo of a peyote cactus cluster

    Inside the battle to save the sacred peyote ceremony: ‘We’re in dire straits’

    Used in Native religious ceremonies but now adopted by A-list celebrities, the cactus is threatened by land development and over-harvesting

October 2022

  • large cannabis leaf being held

    Victorian Greens push for cannabis to be legalised, taxed similarly to alcohol

  • A man's hand holds cannabis flower buds.

    Biden pardons thousands with federal convictions of simple marijuana possession

August 2022

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Finland’s PM passed her drugs test – now for the rest of the world leaders

    Arwa Mahdawi
    While Boris Johnson having multiple children with numerous women is dismissed as boys will be boys, a woman having fun at home with her friends is treated like an untrustworthy hedonist, writes the Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi
  • Mark Speakman speaking to the media, with the NSW premier Dominic Perrottet in the background

    NSW attorney general ‘disappointed’ by own government’s lack of action over ice report

    Mark Speakman says he’s spent ‘hundreds of hours’ trying to get cabinet support for reforms from Howard inquiry

    • ‘Very good for tourists’: Thailand aims for high season with U-turn on cannabis

    • 'The war on drugs has failed': Colombia's first leftist president calls for peace and unity – video

    • Opiates drive drug deaths to record level in England and Wales

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