As part of its evaluation of Britain’s system for classifying illicit drugs, Parliament commissioned the European branch of RAND Corporation, one of the world’s most respected think-tanks, to study the evidence underlying the classification of several...
Unlike the U.S., the British government maintains an independent group of scientific experts to advise it on drug policy, called the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. In 2005, concerned about reports linking marijuana use to mental illness, the government asked...
While by no means an anti-prohibitionist document, this World Health Organization report makes a number of interesting points. The report notes, “despite intensive interdiction efforts, there always seems to be enough [drugs] available to users.”...
