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'After the War on Drugs - Options for Control' is a major new report examining the key themes in the drug policy reform debate, detailing how legal regulation of drug markets will operate, and providing a roadmap and time line for reform. Launched October 12th 2004. *UPDATED 29.03.06* For printed copies of the report please contact Transform Note: This report is in pdf format (0.73megs). A pdf reader is available to download free here. This is the third edition of the report (updated March 2006) with some corrections and small editorial changes.

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"I congratulate Transform on this admirable report.  I just hope that, this time, the authorities will listen to the voice of reason.  All too often clear evidence that present policies simply are not working, and will not work, has been ignored, with the result that a preventable situation is being perpetuated. I particularly like the clear and sensible pathway for the way ahead to which, also, I hope that due attention will be paid".
Sir David Ramsbotham, former Chief Inspector of Prisons

“First Class. Everyone knows that prohibition has failed, and this report sets out, for the first time, how we can replace it. ”
Simon Jenkins, former editor The Times, Columnist the Evening Standard and The Times

"Transform's report is of enormous significance. A thunderous clarion call that will set the walls of prohibition tumbling down"
Paul Flynn MP, Vice Chairman, All Party Group on Drug Misuse

"Transform are to be congratulated on this excellent and groundbreaking report"
Polly Toynbee, the Guardian

“The publication of this report will come to be seen as pivotal in replacing prohibition with a more pragmatic and humane policy on drugs.”
Lord Benjamin Mancroft, Chairman Mentor UK

“Drug laws have caused a crisis in the world's prisons, pushing up prison numbers to unsustainable levels. This report suggests a path which would reduce that pressure, reduce the damage to human beings and return prisons to their proper protective role“
Baroness Vivien Stern, Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Prison Studies

"I was a senior police office for over 20 years, and often asked for my view on the legalisation of drugs. Intuitively I knew that prohibition wasn't working - the experience of the USA seemed to be repeating itself over here. But I didn't have all the facts at my finger tips, and trying to explain this in a short answer was well-nigh impossible. Now Transform has produced a report which is a blinding statement of the obvious, with all the evidence to support it. As an economist I have always thought it ludicrous that governments which talk about espousing the strengths of the market should allow criminals to make so much money when the remedy was so easy. Now we have a chance to make this country safer for all, particularly our children and grandchildren, by removing the motive for drug dealers to get them hooked. I just hope that those in positions of responsibility, whether elected or otherwise, will have the courage to seize it."
Paul Whitehouse QPM, former Chief Constable, Sussex Police

“Transform's remarkable report may be the best, most approachable case I've seen to lay out all the reasons for and steps toward outright legalization of all drugs. (Legalization being defined as "regulation and control".) It also launches a dizzying attack on prohibition and prohibitionists, drug-war politicos, and the status quo. Congratulations to Transform on a truly amazing report. It's nothing short of a shot across the bow of prohibition"
Drug Policy Alliance USA (full review here)

Citations:

'Controlling Psychoactive Substances; the Current System and Alternative Models'. Kings County Bar Association (USA) Drugs Policy Project Report.
See: http://www.kcba.org/druglaw/proposal/report_am.pdf pages 28-29.