Tag: decriminalisation
Downstream: Drugs Have Shaped the Last 500 Years. Ash Sarkar Meets Michael Pollan
The author of The Botany of Desire, How To Change Your Mind and The Omnivore’s Dilemma talks to Ash Sarkar about caffeine, capitalism and how to avoid a bad trip.
Interview: Sex Work Sucks. So Does Sex. So Does Work.
Laura
Report: Are Random Police Drug Swabs Legal?
James Greig
Opinion: Want Drug Policies That Actually Work? Look at Portugal
Joana Ramiro
The UK government just announced a string of reactionary measures as part of a ten-year 'new drugs strategy'. But if it actually wanted to start tackling drug use effectively, it’d follow Portugal’s lead and decriminalise them all, argues Joana Ramiro.
Opinion: Sex Work Is Not a Bullshit Job
Marin Scarlett
Novara Live: Tory Sleaze Row Gathers Pace
Downstream: Why All Drugs Should Be Decriminalised. Interview With David Nutt
The criminalisation of drugs has almost no impact on drug use, denies access to proven medical treatments and disproportionately targets people of colour. Yet the idea that drugs are ‘evil’ and that drug users are criminals is entrenched in international and domestic law. How can we begin to shift this point of view? What are […]
Report: Sex Workers Mobilise Against ‘Dangerous’ Bill Set to Criminalise Clients
Sophie K Rosa
The Lockdown: Profits and the Prison Industry
The Lockdown: Policing by Consent?
The Lockdown: Deaths in State Custody 1: Justice for Sean Rigg
Labour Must Not Contribute to the Oppression of Sex Workers. We Need Decriminalisation Now
Lydia Caradonna
The Lockdown: Prison Island: Prison Expansion in the UK
Back with a new series, hosts Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Nicole, a researcher at Corporate Watch about the British government’s plans for prison expansion, how this will impact people inside and outside prisons and how communities across the country are resisting.
The Lockdown: “Just Paint the Walls Pink”: Gender, Prison and Carceral Feminism
Oonagh Ryder speaks to Mo Mansfield, a social justice campaigner and women’s sector professional. They discuss what carceral feminism is, how it has helped to expand and entrench the criminal justice system and how we can move beyond this towards an abolitionist feminism.