0 comments | 4 shares Estimated reading time: 7 minutes 0 comments | 4 shares Estimated reading time: 7 minutes LGBTQ+ drug users lie at the intersection of (at least) two structurally marginalised communities.
During the May 2022 local elections, Labour issued a series of online adverts attacking, not the shambolic governing Conservative Party, but the Liberal Democrats and their long-standing plans to create a legal, regulated market for cannabis.
Rishi Sunak's controversial move to block the Scottish government's landmark gender reforms will propel the already volatile and vitriolic debate about the rights of trans people into the realm of a full-on constitutional crisis. Long-standing rumours were confirmed on Monday as Sunak and Scotland Secretary Alistair Jack prevented the SNP's recently passed Gender Recognition Bill...
having been found in Chevening and Downing Street during Liz Truss' brief tenure - Reports of traces of cocaine allegations she refutes - last week reignited discussions about politicians and their use of drugs.
Estimated Reading Time: 5-7 minutes It's easy to criticise the government for its complete failure to address the drug death epidemic that has been consistently growing over the last decade, increasing by 88 per cent since 2010 to a record 6,189 deaths in Britain last year.
Paying the price Sir: Lionel Shriver's piece about university standards rang true to me ('University is supposed to be hard', 15 October). When I, then working for a distinctly moth-eaten British university, visited a very famous private college in Massachusetts in 1985, I expressed my envy of his luxurious surroundings to a professor of English.
Estimated Reading Time: 4-6 minutes. Drug policy isn't about drugs. It's about people. This is true for almost all areas of policy, of course, but, when deep in debates about the merits of decriminalisation or avoiding corporate capture in legally regulated markets, those advocating for progressive reforms to our laws on drugs can often lose sight of this simple truth.
Major new polling from the APPG for drug policy reform demonstrates the extent to which the public are ahead of politicians on embracing changes to our drug laws, and adds to a growing body of evidence dismissing the caricature of the 'red wall' as a socially conservative backwards-land.
Drug death figures for 2021 released by the Office for National Statistics last week make for grim reading. An all-time high of 4,859 deaths related to drug poisoning were recorded last year in England and Wales, a 6.2% increase on the previous record numbers recorded in 2020 and the ninth consecutive rise in a row.
David Cameron advocated for both drug policy reform and gay marriage, but in his six years as Prime Minister he only legislated for one of those causes. Why? When Peter McGraith and David Cabreza were wed after 17 years together at midnight on the 29th March 2014, they became the first gay couple to marry under the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act in March 2014.