Beckley News : Drugs

Drugs education must evolve to be treated in a similar way to sex education, Professor David Nutt has said. The government's former adviser on drugs has said opinions on narcotics in the UK "are shifting in the right direction," but warned that "moralising" is getting in the way of solid facts.

Julian Huppert: Khat is as potent as a strong cup of coffee and has no organised crime involvement – yet the government wants to spend £150m on a ban that would create far more severe problems

Since the past 20 years Nigeria has been known as a corridor for illicit drug movement. Drugs like cocaine, heroin and cannabis pass through Nigeria. While the latter is hugely consumed and also grown locally, until recently not many Nigerians consumed cocaine and heroin. 

Airport security experts have at various fora disclosed that there is a drug cartel at the airports in the country, especially the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, that most members of the cartel are agency officials, especially those of Aviation Security of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria.

Though U.S. research on LSD was banned in 1966, researchers in Europe are now reassessing its potential benefits. Doctors in Switzerland recently completed an LSD experiment examining the drug's effect on patients with anxiety.

A former government advisor on drug abuse will be delivering a talk about UK drugs policies in Stratford next Thursday.

The CEO of Partnership at Drugfree.org, best known for its 1980s "Your brain on drugs" ads, conceded during an interview with Advertising Age published Monday that the legalization of recreational marijuana in the U.S. "is happening.&q...

The commission was established to bring to the international level an informed, science-based discussion about humane and effective ways to reduce the harm caused by drugs. The war on drugs is a complete failure, with overwhelming effects for individuals and societies in every corner of the world. The documentary film about the global war on drugs "Breaking the Taboo" lays out the reasons why we need a new approach to drug policy. Organizations such as Legal Services for Prisoners With Children, which works here in the Bay Area, are doing great work by addressing this as a civil and human rights issue, working with formerly incarcerated people, prisoners and their allies. California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill last year to reduce the criminal penalty for drug possession here from a felony to a misdemeanor, but I will be rallying behind groups such as the Drug Policy Alliance who is supporting in 2014 an effort to put this issue on the ballot, thus moving our drug policies toward a health-centered approach.

Posting photos of marijuana to various social media sites is considered reasonable suspicion, in the eyes of the law, and cops are now using these images to lure stoners into rattraps and put them behind bars.

Attorney General Eric Holder is throwing his weight behind a proposal to reduce federal prison sentences for drug offenders.

With the advent of marijuana legalization, alternatives to incarceration, and other approaches to addiction, 2014 could be an unprecedented turning point.

Europe is a major consumer of drugs, and thus a major driver of the drug market. It is also the home of some of the best examples of evidence-based, people-centered, public health-driven policies and was a leader in the early and large-scale implemen...

US refusal to cooperate with Russia in fighting against drug trafficking “is clearly a political decision"

The US President’s deputy drug czar, Michael Botticelli, has spurned an invitation to come to Moscow by his Russian colleague over Russia’s actions in Crimea.

Experiments in Uruguay, Washington and Colorado show how valuable cannabis can be to the economy if we bring it make it above board

So many new drugs on offer it's like a 'sweet shop' for users, says professor

Critic describes drug diplomats' position in Vienna as 'profoundly stupid.'

Considering how commonplace drug use is in society generally, why does the media think any of us are bothered about celebrity drug 'scandals'?

AUSTRALIANS caught importing synthetic LSD will face at least two years in jail under tough new penalties aimed at stemming the “deadly” drug of choice for many teenagers.

Americans spent roughly $1 trillion on illegal substances between 2000 and 2010, a new report compiled for the White House shows.

The report, published by the RAND Drug Policy Research Center for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, tracked...

A new painkiller set to launch soon is causing abuse concerns among some state drug leaders. They say the new pill is very potent and doesn't include any safeguards to prevent against abuse.

Given just how well established anti-smoking campaigns in Britain now are, many of today’s smokers, and younger smokers in particular, have taken up the habit with at least some awareness of the damaging…