This is a guest blog by Rosalind Connor originally posted on the Transform blog Amongst my many Christmas traditions is forcing my sons (now sixteen and fourteen) to watch “Bugsy Malone” with me. Once you get over the questionable nature of pre-teen girls dressed in slinky dresses, it is a riot of fun, with guns [...]
This blog is adapted from the Count the Costs of the War on Drugs briefing: Threatening public health, spreading disease and death. On World AIDS Day, we can unite in the fight against HIV and show support for people living with HIV, by pushing for the legal regulation of drugs. Read these two stories from [...]
Earlier this month Anyone's Child member Anne-Marie Cockburn went to Norway to tell her story at the Nordic Reform Conference 2017. Following this visit, we are delighted to announce that Norway has just voted to decriminalise drug use. You can read her powerful and inspiring speech here. Hello, I am Martha’s mum. Being a parent without [...]
Today, on the United Nations Universal Children's Day, Anyone's Child is heading to London to demand that the government controls and regulates drugs. Please read Radhika’s blog below to find out the shocking statistics behind the human stories. The idea of protecting children and young people has long been used to justify the drug war. Its [...]
This is a blog by Jane Slater, Campaign Manager for Anyone's Child I’m headed to Kenya next week for work I told my friends - Really? The response. Does Kenya have a particular drug problem? Why are you headed there? My reply, where doesn’t have a drug problem? Here’s my story of why I went [...]
Anyone's Child on UN Universal Children's Day **Media Alert** On UN Universal Children's Day: Bereaved families lobby Prime Minister and Parliament to legalise and regulate drugs Monday, 20th November 2017 11:30am, 10 Downing St. 12:00, Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster On United Nations’ Universal Children's Day, Monday 20 November, ‘Anyone’s [...]
This article was originally published on the Transform Drug Policy Foundation blog You don’t need a PhD in the history of alcohol Prohibition to realise that banning drugs doesn’t have a great record. So when we warned the government banning ‘Spice’ (now a catch-all for ‘synthetic cannabinoids’) and other so-called ‘legal highs’, would gift the [...]
Last week Bristol finally took its escalating illegal drug problem seriously and the city played host to a week of diverse and vibrant events centred on drug policy reform. Local charity Transform Drug Policy Foundation and Anyone’s Child: Families for Safer Drug Control were joined by drug policy experts and local activists to rally against [...]
Paul Larner AKA Punky Paul, a homeless man who tragically died from a suspected drug overdose last week is being remembered on a mural that was unveiled a week ago in Stokes Croft. The mural reads: ‘Save lives now - legalise drugs’. Paul now joins 17 images of bereaved people holding up signs representing [...]
This blog was written by Anyone's Child member, Hope Humphreys. Anyone's Child street art in Bristol, UK. “If you do the crime, you do the time,” a phrase carelessly bandied about to justify almost anything. Black and white. End of. Just get over it. But it’s difficult to “get over it” because of [...]