Anyone’s Child Lobby of Parliament 2023, held on the 27th of June, was an annual event that advocates for a paradigm shift in current drug legislation. The people attending a new government approach that focuses on safety and harm reduction rather than criminalisation posed by the judicial system that is currently mostly used. The [...]
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 Child campaign for their annual lobby of Parliament. This year’s lobby marked the conclusion of the 50-year anniversary of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 [...]
On 25th June 2020, Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug Control, Transform Drug Policy Foundation and Support. Don't Punish held a special webinar titled: 'Take Drugs Seriously,' to discuss how legal regulation of the drug market could better protect young and vulnerable people from the harms caused by the illegal market. We received lots of [...]
This week the UK and Scottish governments are holding drug summits (on 26th/27th February) to discuss the growing UK drug crisis. In 2019 the UK once again recorded the highest level of drug deaths since records began with some 4,265 dying across the UK, including 1,187 in Scotland. Campaigners from Anyone’s Child: Families for Safer [...]
