SDPC 12: Drug Related Deaths – SDPC held its’ 12th conversation looking at drug related deaths in Scotland, and producing some recomendations on how to help reduce such deaths in the future. The main record of discussion can be found here, but the main outcomes were: There was broad agreement on the following outcomes: PUBLIC […]
Medicinal Cannabis Reform Scotland
On Thursday 7th September the Medicinal Cannabis Reform Scotland group met with cross party representatives and stakeholders to discuss access to medicinal cannabis in Scotland. At the meeting Steve Rolles from Transform Drug Policy Foundation, and the Durham Police Crime and Victims Commissioner Ron Hogg outlined the current legislative framework and how police forces and […]
Durham Police Event: UK Drug Policy – more harm than good?
Ron Hogg – Durham Police, Crime and Victim’s Commisioner – An event exploring how the UK can move from a criminal justice based drug policy to one focused on health and well-being.
Main Outcomes of SDPC’s session on Cannabis in Scotland
Main Outcomes The regulation of cannabis is a policy option gaining traction internationally and Scotland should be prepared to engage with the different models and processes involved. Creating a new narrative on cannabis in Scotland, including challenging the idea that we are unable to do it because of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. There […]
Expert Working Group on Cannabis: options for policy reform in Scotland
UWS’ Contemporary Drug and Alcohol Studies Programme and Scottish Drug Policy Conversations are hosting an expert working-group meeting on ‘Cannabis: options for policy reform in Scotland’ this Friday 16th of June. This meeting is the intial meeting of an expert group set up to examine options for policy reform of cannabis in Scotland. If you […]
Anyones Child new video
Watch Fiona Gilbertson, a participant of SDPC, talk about her view of drug policy. http://anyoneschild.org/fiona/
Edinburgh Active Citizenship Group Discuss Scottish Drug Policy
When: 26th January 2017 – 7-9pm Where: Thomson’s Land, Edinburgh – see the Facebook event page here. The Edinburgh Active Citizenship Group will be discussing drugs policy in Scotland as part of the January Fire Starter Festival. The evening provides an oppotunity to take part in round table discussions on how we decide what drug […]
Recovering Justice presents ‘Peaceful Solutions to the War on Drugs: Collective Voices from the Frontline…’
When: 7pm-9pm, 2nd February – Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. Recovering Justice are hosting an evening with “three grassroots organisations representing the frontline of the drug war; people who have used drugs , families, criminal justice professionals and the two leading drug policy reform organisations”. They invite you to an evening of discussion and debate […]
Scottish Government Drug and Alcohol Bulletin
Particularly relevant to the conversations is the update on the policy landscape implemented early this year.
Leading Public Health Bodies Call for Reform
“Report from Royal Society for Public Health and Faculty of Public Health says misuse of drugs should be a health issue, not a criminal one”. The calls to move funding for drugs from the Home Office to the Department of Health have already been implemented in Scotland, which moved funding from Justice to Health in […]
