Cannabis gummies are a bad idea – we need to get regulation right if we want to keep children safe
Legal regulation of non-medical cannabis is quickly becoming a reality across the world. As countries introduce different regulatory models with varying restrictions over how cannabis is produced, sold and [...]
From the war on drugs to the drug war
This blog is written by Anyone’s Child coordinator, Mary Ryder. Mary contributed to the Truth Commission’s work on drugs as part of her PhD research which investigates drug policy [...]
Legally regulating drugs is the way forward
Have you heard? Legal regulation is in and prohibition is out. Front cover of Cosmopolitan UK The drug war is SO last season… …harm reduction is SO [...]
It’s been 4 years since my son died
Hilary at the Anyone's Child lobby of Parliament 2022 It’s been 4 years since my son Ben died from a heroin overdose. I would like to say [...]
Reflections on the Anyone’s Child Lobby of Parliament 2022
Photographs of lost loved ones lay next to forget-me-not flowers. As a new day dawned on prohibition Britain, activists across the country prepared to join the Anyone's [...]
Legal Regulation in Colombia
Almost a century of evidence demonstrates that punitive, enforcement-led approaches to drugs have failed everywhere they have been tried. Prohibition and criminalisation were supposed to eradicate drug markets, deter people [...]