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It would be difficult to trace the harm reduction movement back to one specific cause, as it has roots in so many different activist groups. The movement goes as far back as The Black Panther Party’s survival programs in the late 1960s and the women...

and how we can stop it…
On 26th July 2021, police officers found the body of a 40-year old man, named Richard Beare, inside a flat in Penzance, Cornwall. He had fallen unconscious in bed, with heroin and a handful of pills nearby. There were fatal levels of benzodiazepines...

With their nascent medicinal cannabis cultivation industries, Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man are well-positioned to advance reform of Britain’s approach to cannabis.
As independent, self-governing jurisdictions, the Crown Dependencies each have their own Misuse of Drugs legislation, which largely mirrors that of the UK. Hypothetically, they could pass their own legislation to implement local, regulated cannabis markets...

As the hype around psychedelics picks up pace and every week more clinical trials are announced looking at their therapeutic potential for everything from depression to anorexia, it’s easy to forget that at the centre of this research lies the trial...