An authentic insight into addiction combining the lived experience of the author with insights from neuroscience: 'Addiction’s effects on decision-making are complex ... simplistic answers have stymied efforts to ameliorate drug use disorders and reduce stigma'

🚨ACMD review into NOs (Nitrous Oxide) just dropped - 🧵everything you need to know🎈:

Fine, but please can the incoming President be brought up to speed with evidence on the likely impact and outcomes associated with public information education/prevention campaigns about drugs (i.e. usually little to no effect, with a distinct possibility of iatrogenic outcomes)

Excellent 🧵 from @SenLynnRuane on Ireland's announcement of a Citizen's Assembly on Drug Use. I was first introduced to Lynn via @Rubberbandits podcast play.acast.com/s/blindboy/sen… I highly recommend giving it a listen

Great news from Ireland 🇮🇪. The Citizens' Assembly is due to consider harm reduction measures that the State could take to reduce the impact of drugs on individuals, families and communities. Conclusion expected by EoY

A good depiction of just how difficult to is to separate out moralistic views associated with drugs and drug use - which is at the crux of the difficulty of achieving reform.

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Positive comments here. Those of us on the frontlines of policing know the nuances in drug law enforcement and that’s why so many support progressive reforms.

Volteface Explains: How many people in the UK use drugs? What drugs do they use? And what does their drug use look like?

🧵A number crunching thread:

'Other countries that have decriminalised haven't seen surges in use.

'It's not like everyone's like: 'Hurrah! Cannabis is legal, I'm going to go smoke myself into oblivion!' that simply doesn't happen.'

Steve Rolles stresses prohibition 'has failed in spectacular style.'

Conservatives arguing for harsher penalties for #cannabis offences have seized on one article from Portugal to support their case. But does it prove the need to put cannabis in Class A? 1/6