About Us > Mission and Activities

Our Mission:

Transform Drug Policy Foundation exists to promote sustainable health and wellbeing by bringing about a just, effective and humane system to regulate and control drugs at local, national and international levels.

Our Activities:

• Carry out research, policy analysis and innovative policy development
  
• Challenge government to demonstrate rational, fact-based evidence to support its policies and expenditure
  
• Promote alternative, evidence-based policies to parliamentarians, government and government agencies
  
• Advise non-governmental organisations whose work is affected by drugs in developing drug policies appropriate to their own mission and objectives
  
• Provide an informed, rational and clear voice in the public and media debate on UK and international drug policy

Our Vision:

• Social justice: restoration of human rights and dignity to the marginalised and disadvantaged, and regeneration of deprived neighbourhoods
  
• Reduced social costs: an end to the largest cause of acquisitive crime and street prostitution, and consequent falls in the non-violent prison population
  
• Reduced serious crime: dramatic curtailment of opportunities and incentives for organised and violent crime
  
• Public finances: the financial benefits of discontinued drug enforcement expenditure and the taxation of regulated drugs
  
• Public health: creation of an environment in which drug use can be managed and drug users can lead healthier lives
  
• Ethics: adherence to ethical standards and principles, including fair trade, in the manufacture, supply and distribution of drugs
  
• Reduced war and conflict: an end to the illegal drug trade's contribution to conflict and political instability in producer and transit countries