Drugs

Antimicrobial resistance will be “as serious as Covid-19”

Experts warn that scientists and doctors are poorly prepared for the effects of drug-resistant bacteria.

Why the UK should legalise cannabis

Prohibition does more harm than the drug itself.

Joe Biden’s marijuana pardons prove he can change with the times

The US president’s latest executive move is both popular and just.

The war on drugs has failed – when will the Tories and Labour accept this?

Britain’s backwards drug laws are causing avoidable deaths, and the public is demanding change.

Why drugs should be not only decriminalised, but fully legalised

The “War on Drugs” has failed. It’s time that governments, not gangsters, run the drug market.

How psychedelics change lives

The writer Michael Pollan on becoming a psychonaut in his fifties – and why tripping is political.

Raise a spliff to Sadiq Khan, a politician brave enough to get real on drug reform

Only fear and prejudice stop the government from taking the evidence-based approach to drugs advocated by the Mayor of London.

1 July 1967: More people are going to use drugs anyway, whatever we do.

The government is bringing in new laws to target people who take Class A drugs

Taking away someone’s passport is a pretty sinister act however you slice it.