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June 06

TRANSFORM NEWS

Jonathan Ross TV presenter, film critic, author (Transform Patron)

For a long time I’ve felt that the war on drugs is a lost cause. As a parent I’m obviously aware of the dangers of drugs but its clear to me that these dangers are massively increased by the criminality involved in an illegal market. I’m supporting Transform because I’d like to see a more honest, rational and compassionate approach to the drug problem.

(see more about Wossy below.....)

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Well what a scorcher of a month! Hope you’re all being sensible with the sun cream.

Politically the summer months are often rather quiet on the drugs front with most of our politicians on holiday, or this month, watching football. However there has been plenty of ‘off the pitch’ action this month with a bunch of interesting developments including the Scottish Drugs Tsar admitting that the war on drugs is long lost, the release of another annual UN world drugs report (making grim reading), and the legendary Jonathan Ross challenging Tory leader David Cameron on the legalisation issue on his prime time chat show! Nice.

On the home front this month we launch or BRAND NEW media blog, alongside a bunch of new features on the website including an archive of scanned newspaper and magazine articles we’ve featured in over the years.

and....

As always – please remember that you can do a lot more than just read this newsletter - discuss the issues on the Transform forum, help publicise Transform and the website, make a donation, read the ‘what you can do’ bit *see bottom of the news letter*, and get active!

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Thanks for reading! Until next month,
Fran Kellett
Transform Drug Policy Foundation

Contents

----1. UK NEWS-----

*Wossy advocating drug law reform to David Cameron!

*New possession laws – confusion and controversy

*Labour likes to hide its dirty laundry

*Why Scotland needs a radical new approach to drugs

*Tsar admits: we’ve lost the war on drugs

*Society 'culpable' for drug use

*Ben Elton strikes again

*Selection of recent pro-legalisation/discussion articles

*UK Links

---- 2. INTERNATIONAL NEWS ----

*International Drug Users' Movement -- Activists Form Coalition, Issue

Declaration

*UN Office on Drugs on Crime: World Drugs Report 06

*South America news

*ACTION re: Mycoherbicides (killer fungus)

*International Drug Policy Consortium

*Would legalisation work?

*What’s really going on in Holland?

*International Links & Books

----3. WHAT TRANSFORM HAS BEEN UP TO-----

*NEW MEDIA BLOG!

*2020 Group

*Blueprint

*Transform Media Archive

*Publicity

*Who supports drug law reform?

*Publications

*Funding

 

---- 4. WHAT YOU CAN DO ----

*Work for Transform! Job vacancy

*Write to your MP if you have one – or visit them!

*Get active online

*Help with our fundraising!

*Volunteer for Transform: Trustee Treasurer vacancy

 

----1. UK NEWS-----

** Jonathan Ross

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

24 June

The video clip on the BBC search site (bottom right) shows Jonathan Ross interviewing David Cameron, the Conservative party leader. Towards the end of the clip Ross tries to persuade Cameron on the merits of legalising and regulating drugs, such as reducing crime. Cameron concedes only that a different approach to the drug problem, such as more treatment, would be an improvement in policy. Jonathan Ross is a long time Patron and supporter of Transform but this is the first time that he has raised the issue in his TV slot. It’s GREAT to see the issue getting a positive airing on prime time TV with millions across the country watching - putting it squarely in the mainstream political discourse, and normalising the reform position in the public eye. It was also great to see Ross using Transform’s language and arguments – using the term ‘regulation and control’ to specify what ‘legalisation’ implied.

David Cameron’s answers are interesting too – not supportive of the legalisation position, but acknowledging of it, and showing some movement from previous Tory hard-line rhetoric. Cameron has made for more progressive statements in the past – such as signing up the Home Affairs Select committee recommendation that the Government should "initiate a discussion" within the UN about "alternative ways - including the possibility of legalisation and regulation - to tackle the global drugs dilemma".

To watch the video – click below, and choose the link called: “Cameron appears on Jonathan Ross show”

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=all&go=homepage&q=jonathan+ross&scope=all

Read more about Cameron’s views on drugs here:

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/MediaNews_LatestNews_07_09_05.htm

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** New possession laws

The Drugs Act 2005 introduced a new law that determined that possession of over a certain quantity of a given drug would automatically lead to a prosecution for dealing/supply. At the time the Bill was passed into law, however, the quantity thresholds had not been established. This particular clause of the Drugs Act (2) was highly controversial (as was much of the rest of the Act), attracting scathing criticism from across the drugs field (see the briefing linked below). A belated consultation on the quantity thresholds was convened AFTER the law had been passed – but there was no consultation whatsoever on whether such thresholds were a good idea in the first instance. You can read more about this sorry saga in Transform’s submission to this consultation here: http://www.tdpf.org.uk/Policy_General_Drugs_Act_clause_2.htm

Initial indications from the Home Office was that the thresholds would be set quite high. These were met with a predictable tabloid storm of controversy. Subsequently, under the ‘tough’ new Home Secretary John Reid, plans were adjusted to reduce the quantities of drugs allowed to pass for personal use. The threshold quantities now on the table would potentially make people liable to fourteen years prison for the possession of five ecstasy pills or of cannabis sufficient for ten joints (5g if you believe the Home Office).

Following are two articles on this:

The weight of evidence

The Guardian
June 9th

“As our home affairs editor reported this week, new tough proposals drawn up by the Home Office would make drug users caught with even small amounts of cannabis - sufficient for just 10 joints - liable to be classified as dealers. The current maximum for this offence is 14 years. Drug policy has swung from one extreme to another in the space of just six months.” Read the full story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,,1794407,00.html

and

The Scotsman also reported on this: “Reid Vows to get tough on Drug Users”:

June 7

http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=842192006

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**Labour likes to hide its dirty laundry

The Telegraph
12th June

This article provides a fascinating insight into Government thinking and their paranoia about seeming soft on drugs, or accepting in public what they know in private, that, oh dear, the current drugs strategy has been a

complete failure – and a criminal justice approach is completely counterproductive and can never succeed.

The article, by Philip Johnston, concerns the efforts of the Telegraph newspaper, which tried for 15 months to use the Freedom of Information Act to “prise from the clenched fist of Whitehall obduracy a document about the Government's drugs policy that should have been placed in the public domain without any demur.”

In the end, several appeals later, they did finally get the document released. However by that point it had already been leaked to the Guardian and was in the public domain.

Read the article here:

http://tinyurl.com/e7v8d

Read Transform’s reports on the reports here:

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/Policy_General_Strategy_Unit_Drugs_Report_phase_1.htm

and here:

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/Policy_General_No_10_Phase_2_Birt_report_briefing.htm

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** Why Scotland needs a radical new approach to drugs

Daniel Donnelly
The Herald 28 June

“It is worth taking a reality check in this so called war. The global problem continues to grow despite all efforts from enforcement agencies. Cannabis is grown in 120 countries, opium in 35 and coca in 6. Colombia supplies 75% of the world’s cocaine. A recent effort to eradicate the crop in Peru and Bolivia caused a slight dip in production, but Colombian farmers simply grew more. So, any eradication successes are short lived.”

Read on:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/64927.html

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**Scottish Drug Tsar admits: we’ve lost the war on drugs

Scotsman 18 June

“Tom Wood, a former deputy chief constable, is the first senior law enforcement figure publicly to admit drug traffickers will never be defeated. Wood said no nation could ever eradicate illegal drugs and added that it was time for enforcement to lose its number one priority and be placed behind education and deterrence”.

Read on:

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=892852006

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** Society 'culpable' for drug use

BBC News 22 June

David Liddell, director of the Scottish Drugs Forum, “told a conference in Glasgow that drug problems were wrongly seen as a medical or criminal justice issue. He said they should instead be regarded as a social problem and a symptom of a dysfunctional society.

Mr Liddell said: "It cannot be a coincidence that depressants, including heroin, remain the most favoured drugs of choice in Scotland. They numb some of the most vulnerable people in our society from the harsh realities and overwhelming difficulties of their lives - the very people least able to cope with such challenges.“

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5105986.stm

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** Ben Elton strikes again

More on the Ben Elton story we ran last month. During a speech to the Scottish Parliament he called for legalisation – citing it as the only way forward as current “UK drugs policies have failed and have only benefited a criminal underclass”.

The Mirror 1 June

http://tinyurl.com/gzmyg

and

The Sunday Herald

http://www.sundayherald.com/56101

and

The BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/5032634.stm

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**Recent pro-legalisation/discussion articles:

A selection of articles for your perusal:

Camilla Cavendish, Times, On Mexico including a name check for Transform

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2728-2163858,00.html

Matt Frei, BBC including a call for legalisation

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5000468.stm

Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20911-2201188.html

Jonathan Power (Arab Times!)

http://www.transnational.org/forum/power/2006/06.16_China_drugs.html )

FOR MORE MEDIA NEWS AND DEBATE VISIT TRANSFORM’S BRAND SPANKING NEW MEDIA BLOG!

See below for details.

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--- UK LINKS

UKHRA –

http://www.ukhra.org/ - UK Harm Reduction Alliance - is a campaigning coalition of drug users, health and social care workers, criminal justice workers and educationalists that aims to put public health and human rights at the centre of drug treatment and service provision for drug users.

The Transform Discussion Forum:

http://forum.tdpf.org.uk/forum - Discuss the latest news stories, policy issues, and anything else you fancy on the Transform discussion forum. You now need to register to post due to problems we have had with spam. Please get involved – the forum needs to establish a critical mass of users to sustain itself and realise its potential for sharing information, stimulating debate and innovation.

 

---- 2. INTERNATIONAL NEWS ----

**International Drug Users' Movement -- Activists Form Coalition, Issue

Declaration

“More than 100 activists representing at least 13 different drug user groups from Europe, North America, Latin America, Australia, and Asia took advantage of the International Harm Reduction Association conference in Vancouver to form an international coalition. At the first ever International Drug User Activists Congress ... and in numerous sessions throughout the week, the groups and individuals involved managed to craft an initial declaration and lay the groundwork for increased coordination among user activist groups.

Read more here: http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/434/idum.shtml

Sign the declaration here:

http://www.clubplan.org/CMS/page.asp?name=Home&org=3460

**UN Office on Drugs & Crime World Drugs Report

Every year the UN release their World Drugs Report. Typically upbeat in the face of what seems to objective observers to be a total disaster on every front, they try and lull everyone into a sense that actually the problems are getting better when really they aren’t. It’s a masterpiece of spin, but look beyond the rhetoric and some of the data it contains shows what is really going on.

For some excellent analysis of the report see the Trans National Institute’s press release & briefing:

“In its 2006 World Drug Report, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) struggles to fabricate success stories about the effectiveness of the global drug control regime. Flawed comparisons are constructed with higher opium production levels a century ago, with higher prevalence figures for tobacco, and biased claims are made about cannabis. “

“if UNODC was a commercial company with stockholders, it could be sued for fraud for conscious distortion of the future prospects of its enterprise.”

For the full critique read :

Press Release:

http://www.tni.org/drugs-docs/pr260606.pdf

Briefing:

http://www.tni.org/policybriefings/brief18.pdf

For the UN’s executive summary visit:

http://www.unodc.org/pdf/WDR_2006/wdr2006_ex_summary.pdf

or if you’re really keen, the full report is here:

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/world_drug_report.html

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**South America

Failure of eradication programmes in Colombia

President “Uribe has been a staunch ally of the Bush administration's anti-drug and anti-terror policies toward Colombia and has been the recipient of more than $4 billion in US aid aimed at eradicating the coca

and cocaine trade and defeating the guerrillas. But after six years, according to the US government's own figures, Colombia is producing roughly as much cocaine as when Plan Colombia began despite a massive aerial eradication campaign that has sprayed tens of thousands of acres of cropland. And while the intensity of FARC attacks during this year's election campaign was much reduced from 2002, by no means have the

guerrillas gone away”.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/438/gaviriadiaz.shtml

Election on a knife edge in Mexico

Mexico Is holding their elections on 2nd July – because this report is a few days late we can inform you that the conservative challenger looks to have won by a sliver after a knife edge contest with many claims and counter claims of voting irregularities (there are various legal challenges pending).

The previous President (Fox) was receptive to the ideas of drug law reform and attempted to introduce certain policies (most recently to decriminalize personal possession of all drugs – see previous newsletters) which became so watered down they pretty much changed nothing – due, unsurprisingly perhaps, to intense US pressure.

Read more here

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/438/lopezobrador.shtml

Quote from former president Fox in the Transform hall of fame:

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/MediaNews_Reform-supporters_Politics.htm#Fox

latest election news from the South American Drug Policy reform website

Narconews:

http://www.narconews.com/

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** ACTION!

The American Drug Policy Alliance is urging people to take action to tell US Senators not to use Mycoherbicides in S America & Afghanistan. Congress is re-considering using these genetically engineered fungal pathogens to kill coca & opium crops, with no regard for the toll on human and animal life they can take.

You can read more about the issue and email the Senators from the DPAs website:

http://tinyurl.com/gmww3

Trans National Institute briefing on mycoherbicides:

http://www.tni.org/policybriefings/brief7.htm

Sunshine project briefing on the threat of mycoherbicide use to human health

http://www.sunshine-project.org/publications/bk/bk4en.html

and on opposition to the deployment of mycoherbicides

http://www.sunshine-project.org/publications/bk/bk3en.html

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**International Drug Policy Consortium

A new international group is being set up focussing on issues related to illegal drug use. ‘The Consortium aims to promote objective and open debate on the effectiveness, direction and content of drug policies at national and international level, and supports evidence-based policies that are effective in reducing drug-related harm.”

Initiated by the Beckley Foundation, you can find more about work they’re going to do here:

http://www.idpc.info/

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** Would legalisation work?

An interesting article by Joep Oorman, a colleague who runs ENCOD (http://www.encod.org / ) the European drug policy reform coalition group.

“Well, here is the remarkable conclusion: there is no clear connection between drug policies and the prevalence of drug consumption. In countries with liberal policies the prevalence is not higher than in countries with restrictive policies”.

The rest of the article can be found here:

http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=A&Id=1899

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**What’s really going on in Holland?

Holland “regards drug addicts as victims of a disease. Indeed, the Dutch tend to believe, for example, that heroin addicts should get help to escape their addiction. At the same time, those looking for non-addictive soft drugs such as marijuana should not be driven into an underground criminal scene where they risk coming into contact with hard drugs. So, after much debate, a few years ago the Dutch decided to legalise the sale of soft drugs such as hashish and marijuana in small amounts for personal consumption - and the famous 'coffee shops' were born”.

The rest of the article is here:

http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/060601bmc

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** INTERNATIONAL LINKS & BOOKS

--Keeping the Door Open (KDO), http://www.keepingthedooropen.com/ - A brilliant Canadian drug law reform organisation who’s mission is: “ In KDO’s shared vision of the future, problematic substance use is understood to be a complex social, cultural, health, and economic issue. Substance users are effectively engaged in systems of care, and live harmoniously within inclusive communities, and are given the opportunity to live healthy and dignified lives.”

-- The Drug Policy Alliance www.drugpolicy.org - a US based organisation campaigning for the reform of drug policy also have a lovely html newsletter. Sign up on their website to find out what madness goes on over the pond.

--The Trans National Institute – www.tni.org - Consistently producing the highest quality critique and policy analysis of global prohibition in it various guises. A range of brilliant publications available online.

--http://www.idpc.info / - a new international drug policy consortium initiated by the Beckley Foundation

(http://www.internationaldrugpolicy.net ) “aims to promote objective and open debate on the effectiveness, direction and content of drug policies at national and international level, and supports evidence-based policies that are effective in reducing drug-related harm. It disseminates the reports of its member organisations about particular drug-related matters as well as offers expert consultancy services to policymakers and officials around the world.”

--- IHRA http://www.ihra.net / - International Harm Reduction Association – work with other organisations in a number of fields including “Encouraging discussion about the relationship between drug policy and public health outcomes.” (Transform Director Danny Kushlick sits on the IRHA board)

No Books up for recommendation this month – if you have any please email us.

----3. WHAT TRANSFORM HAS BEEN UP TO-----

**NEW MEDIA BLOG!

We have set up a blog which you can find here:

http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/

The blog will chronicle and discuss interesting media developments in the media debate on the future of UK and international drug policy – offering the opportunity for discussion and participation. The lead stories each day will also be streamed to the TDPF home page. Check it out regularly and support it by publicising it, contributing comments and sending stories or feature ideas to info@tdpf.org.uk. Thanks.

*”2020 Group”

Transform have taken a leadership role in helping to establish a new international group of drug reformers laying the groundwork for an effective global movement to end the drug war by 2020.

The group “also suggests that ending drug prohibition is something that can happen in the foreseeable future. As Danny Kushlick of the British reform group Transform related, the year came to him when he was in conversation with a UN official and asked him when drugs would be legalized. "Never," the official responded. "Well, what about by 2020?" Kushlick asked. "Oh, before that," the official replied, "maybe by 2015."

Read more here:

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/435/2020group.shtml

The group intends to launch officially in May 2007. More details will follow.

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**Other work:

‘After the War on Drugs – Blueprint for change’

Transform are also working on a follow up to the ‘After the War on Drugs, Options for Control’ report. This is to be a collaborative effort with colleagues in Canada (The Health Officers Council of British Colombia) and Seattle (the King County bar Association) amongst others and is scheduled for completion by May 2007. The report will provide the detail of how regulatory models for different drugs will work and also show how they can be developed and implemented in different local environments.

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**NEW TRANSFORM MEDIA ARCHIVE

Thanks to the diligent efforts of Ben, on of our regular volunteers, the long promised Transform in the Media archive is now online. It is a collection of some of Transform’s finest moments in print in the national press, scanned in for your reading pleasure. Check it out here:

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/MediaNews_TransformInTheMedia.htm

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**PUBLICITY

A quiet month media month – on account of half our staff, and half of the country’s journalists being on holiday.

Danny Kushlick Transform’s Director did manage to squeeze in an interview on Radio 4’s World Tonight about Crystal Methamphetamine on the 14th June. And then of course there was Transform patron Jonathan Ross’s prime time barnstormer – see above.

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**Who supports drug law reform:

Transform has launched an archive of quotes – supportive of drug law reform - collected over a number of years, from politicians, opinion formers, criminal justice, celebrities, the non-governmental sector & religious leaders. Each month we add new quotes.

Read the impressive list(s) here:

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/MediaNews_Reform_supporters.htm

Any suggested additions? Send them, with references please, to steve@tdpf.org.uk

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**PUBLICATIONS:

Our most recent publications:

*AFTER THE WAR ON DRUGS OPTIONS FOR CONTROL

The updated version has finally arrived back from the printers. Please get in touch if you would like a hard copy, otherwise download a pdf version from the front page of our website:

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/Policy_General_AftertheWaronDrugsReport.htm

*PUBLICITY LEAFLET “The problem is Prohibition” Copies are available in print – get in touch if you would like one, or even a whole bunch of them.

You can download a pdf version from here: http://www.tdpf.org.uk/Parliament_WhatYouCanDo.htm#leaflet

*ANNUAL REPORT

A pdf version is available here, and get in touch if you’d like a copy all of your own : http://www.tdpf.org.uk/AboutUs_AnnualReport.htm .

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**FUNDING

As ever our funding needs remain pressing.... ideas, contacts and suggestions are always welcome, and PLEASE - if you haven’t already – sign up online to make a regular donation, however small, to the organisation. It can really make a difference. http://www.tdpf.org.uk/support_Transform.htm

Our secure online donation page administered by the Charities Aid Foundation. Donations can be one off or regular, large or small. Please give generously - we need your support. (Transform relies solely on donations from individuals and charitable trusts to maintain its work)

We can also accept ‘Give as you earn’ payroll donations: visit your payroll office to pick up a donor instruction form and visit the CAF website. Our registration number is: 000476760.

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---- 4.WHAT YOU CAN DO ----

**GET TO WORK ON YOUR MP.

If you haven’t done this yet – Get on with it! You pay their wages to represent your views. Write to them, email them, pay them a visit. Its easy and effective campaigning.....

**FIND OUT HOW YOUR MP VOTES

Every week, a dozen or so times, your MP votes in the UK Parliament. This is their definitive exercise of power. The Public Whip extracts their voting record from the pages of the Parliamentary transcript so that you can see it and hold them to account.

http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/

Start off by writing to your MP councillor and ask them their views on the current drug policy. Ask their opinion on the ‘War on Drugs’, the fact that it isn’t working and what they think should be done. They have a duty to reply, and then you can begin a dialogue. Remember always to be polite however much you may disagree with them!

Book a visit to their surgery - you can meet with them and discuss any issue that you fancy. Its really easy! One of our volunteers visited his MP, who just happened to be Charles Clarke – the (former) Home Secretary! The meeting was very positive, and various Transform materials were passed on. Transform provided a detailed briefing and training before the visit. Call us for help.

Do you know who your MP is?! They may have changed since the election.

Find out here: http://www.locata.co.uk/commons

**MEDIA

Try writing/e-mailing your local paper or a national paper. Look out for drug related stories in newspapers (and other publications) and respond in the letters pages.

You could perhaps write to individual journalists. Your letters don’t all have to be critical - we regularly send letters saying “congratulations on your recent article. Here is some information we thought you might be

interested in”. Its not often journalists get praise!

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**ONLINE ACTIVISM

The internet gives you the opportunity to engage the drug law reform debate as never before. There are literally thousands of online forums, discussion groups, and media feedback opportunities where you can get involved and inject a little common sense into the debate.

They Work For You : detailed transcripts of parliamentary debates you can comment on.

The following link will take you to all the recent debates involving the words ‘illegal & drugs’

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?s=illegal+drugs

*MPs websites:

A number of MPs now have fairly fancy websites where you can post comments or discuss issues on forums. Do a google search on your MP and see if they have a site that invoites discussion....

*Try some other unlikely places......

The Daily Mail for example; a long time bastion of reactionary Drug War thinking has recently begun to open up to more progressive policy ideas. Whether you like the paper or not, the fact remains that it is highly

influential in Whitehall and read by millions of floating voters. Many news stories and opinion pieces offer an opportunity to add comments at the end – so if you see a drug story that you think doesn’t tell the whole story – let them know!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

*For more help with raising awareness through the media see below and the ‘What you can do page’ on the TDPF site here;

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/Parliament_WhatYouCanDo.htm

For further advice please call the Transform office on 0117 941 5810. Send in your media tips, suggestions for web activism warnings, successes and failures - we’ll include them here.

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*Work for Transform! Job vacancy

Our Office Manager is leaving. If you fancy working in a small dedicated team – visit here for further information:

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/AboutUs_JobVacancies.htm

(NB this is currently Bristol based

*Volunteer for Transform: Trustee Treasurer vacancy

How’s your financial knowledge? If its good enough to prepare cash flow forecasts and understand end of year reports and you’ve got some time to spare – becoming Transform’s treasurer might be for you.

The board meetings are held every 2-3 months, in Bristol and there will be a few hours outside of this required.

If you’re interested, please get in touch for more detail: info@tdpf.org.uk or 0117 941 5810

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