Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 8 Issue 2

Drug policy in search of glo‐cal solutions

Axel Klein

Policy forum: We have a problem: part 2 ‐ a call for a paradigm shift

Casey Hardison

This is the second part of a three‐part series in which Casey Hardison investigates current UK drug policy and calls for a paradigm shift.

Legal eye

Niamh Eastwood, Anna Ling

How alcohol may precipitate violent crime

David Marteau

The article examines the interrelation between alcohol consumption, behaviour mediation and violent offending, including murder. Whilst a correlation may be drawn between…

UK drug‐related mortality ‐ issues in definition and classification

John Corkery

This article summarises different approaches to defining what constitutes a drug‐related death (DRDs) and how they can be classified. DRDs usually fall into two broad categories…

Danish drug policy—shifting from liberalism to repression

Vibeke Frank

In the course of the 2000s Denmark has experienced a shift in drug policy in general and of cannabis policy in particular. Danish drug policy used to be known as liberal, but is…

The culture of the ban on cannabis: is it political laziness and lack of interest that keep this farcical blunder afloat?

Peter Cohen

From a paper given at the Tweelanden conferentie Cannabisteelt in de Lage Landen, at the University of Ghent, on 3‐4 December 2007, the author explores the culture of the ban on…

Psychedelic Medicine: New evidence for hallucinogenic substances as treatments

David Luke