People of the world!

Get involved with The Global Initiative for Drug Policy Reform.

Join their mailing list, and be part of the movement to rethink the UN conventions on drugs. 10 million prisoners and 38,000 dead Mexicans in four years is too high a price to pay for an unscientific and immoral convention.

People of England!

This is the land which invented the Scientific Method, abolished slavery, and gave women the vote

- get up and let your minister know that he or she works for you!

The UK Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is the body which started needle exchange programs in Thatcher’s time, leading the world on this issue. Its head, Professor David Nutt was fired when he stood up to the government’s decision to reclassify cannabis in 2009, and two more members resigned over the mephedrone scare.

This council is now being rendered impotent. A bill going through parliament right now will remove scientists from the committee, and give the Secretary of State powers to declare anything at all a drug, without reference to the law or the experts.

Click here to hassle your MP about this pernicious and cynical move.

This is what it cuts from the 1971 act:

SCHEDULE 1 Constitution etc. Of Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs1

(1)The members of the Advisory Council, of whom there shall be not less than twenty, shall be appointed by the Secretary of State after consultation with such organisations as he considers appropriate, and shall include

—(a)in relation to each of the activities specified in sub-paragraph (2) below, at least one person appearing to the Secretary of State to have wide and recent experience of that activity; and

—(b)persons appearing to the Secretary of State to have wide and recent experience of social problems connected with the misuse of drugs.

(2)The activities referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) above are

—(a)the practice of medicine (other than veterinary medicine);

—(b)the practice of dentistry;

—(c)the practice of veterinary medicine;

—(d)the practice of pharmacy;

—(e)the pharmaceutical industry;

—(f)chemistry other than pharmaceutical chemistry.