This guest blog was written by Penny McCanny, mother of Aidan and Anyone's Child Campaigner. Penny will be speaking at our next webinar, Northern Ireland: Take Drugs Seriously on Thursday 1st April 19:00 BST. Register here. We talk frequently of life changing moments; sometimes about events that are really not all that life [...]
This blog is adapted from our report ‘Reforming drug policies to reduce trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable people,’ to explore the intersections between drugs, women and exploitation, on International Women’s Day 2021. To mark International Women’s Day 2021, we want to highlight women’s stories which expose the gendered dynamics of prohibition and criminalisation, [...]
This blog was written by Anyone's Child member, Anne-Marie. In 2013 I lost my only child, Martha Fernback, at the age of 15 to an accidental ecstasy overdose. That warm July day gave nothing away as to what was about to unfold as my time as a mother abruptly came to an end. [...]
The blog is in response to Home Secretary Priti Patel's Telegraph piece 'People are Dying,' from Anyone's Child member, Pat. Having failed to curb rising drug-related deaths in the UK, the government has now pledged a £148million package to clamp down on county-lines and drugs supply and prevent addiction. While more money is very [...]
Last month Anyone's Child Campaign Manager, Jane Slater, caught up with who can only be described as the drug policy activist of 2020, Peter Krykant. Peter has taken on the political hot potato of the year and established the UK's first Overdose Prevention Centre, or Drug Consumption Room, in Glasgow. This is despite Westminster [...]
As the US saw four more states legalise recreational cannabis (bringing the total to 15) we caught up with Seun Adedeji, CEO of Elev8 Cannabis to tell us his story and why he believes that social equity* needs to be the heart of cannabis legalisation. The views expressed in this blog are those of [...]
Las tres muertes de Marisela Escobedo review To mark the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November, Anyone’s Child volunteer Ashley reviews 'Las tres muertes de Marisela Escobedo' (The three deaths of Marisela Escobedo), a Netflix documentary which highlights Mexico’s femicide crisis. Last month Las tres muertes de [...]
Alex's story: as someone with former problematic cocaine use, I think the drug should be legally regulated This is a guest blog by Anyone’s Child activist, Alex, in response to Transform’s new book How to Regulate Stimulants: A practical guide, which explores how a legally regulated market for cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines would protect [...]
Why we should legalise drugs In this blog post Anyone's Child campaigner Marie reviews Justice on Trial, namely Chapter 3 - Why we should legalise drugs, by Chris Daw QC. After listening to Chris Daw speak on the Anyone's Child webinar last June, I felt compelled to buy and read his book [...]
On 10 September 2020, we organised a webinar to discuss the interactions between drug policies and the trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable people. We were delighted to be joined by guest speakers; Neil Woods, author of bestseller 'Good Cop: Bad War' and Chairperson of Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP UK); Coletta Youngers, Senior Fellow at [...]
