🚨Big news coming out of the APPG for Drug Policy Reform🚨 Major new polling suggests that the majority of voters in 'red wall' seats support reforms including Overdose Prevention Centres, drug testing, naloxone provision and cannabis legalisation. volteface.me/red-wall-voter…

"Evidence and compassion must be the basis of drug policy-making, not focus groups. Prohibition and criminalisation have failed, and at huge human and financial cost." Labour Campaign for Drug Policy Reform's @wordsbyjayj on the need for a public health-based approach to drugs: labourlist.org/2022/08/a-publ…

In Dundee to hear from charities working with people who use drugs, city Councillors and party members as the 7 September closing date for the consultation on my Members Bill to license Overdose Prevention Centres in Scotland approaches. Thanks to Michael Marra MSP for hosting me.

In the first question of this Parliamentary session, I asked the Home Secretary to follow the evidence on drug overdose prevention units. Too many people are dying. Maybe a new Home Secretary will.

Our Secretariat @wordsbyjayj spoke to Dazed about harm reduction content on social media and what needs to change⬇️

We’ll be at this really interesting looking event - the only drug policy event at conference this year so make sure you swing by!

Our Secretariat @wordsbyjayj asked Andy Burnham & Sadiq Khan about their views on drug policy reform at Party Conference last week. We need voices from across the country and across the party to join the calls for an evidence-based approach to drugs from the next Labour gov't

Cc: Keir Starmer Steve Reed Yvette Cooper

LCDPR secretariat @wordsbyjayj with everything you need to know about Biden's historic cannabis reforms. Labour can learn from its sister parties in the US Democrats and Germany SPD Parteivorstand 🇪🇺 in taking a progressive, socially just stance on cannabis. volteface.me/biden-cannabis…

Labour's brilliant advocate for evidence-based drug policies Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has a Met Police Commissioner who also understands the benefits of non-criminalising approaches to drugs. Labour-led London will continue to lead the fight for sensible, evidence-led drug policies.

Our Secretariat @wordsbyjayj has written for Mile End Institute about the need for joined up thinking on drug policy. One to bookmark for a future Labour government🔖

🚨We've just uploaded a new resource for Labour drug policy reformers to use in CLP Parliamentary candidate selection meetings. We've drafted a list of questions for you to ask candidates standing in your seat, to make sure they back drug policy reform. labour-drug-policy.squarespace.com/selectionquest…

Be great to see these new drug policy q's asked by members tomorrow at Sheffield Central Labour Party selection meeting tomorrow. Paul Mason Eddie Izzard @JaynePDunn Abtisam Mohamed Mike Buckley Dr Rizwana Lala be prepared! CC: Sheffield Labour for a Green New Deal @SheffYoungLab Sheffield Labour Students LabourSheffield

We may have a new PM, but let's not forget what the last 12 years of Tory austerity have meant for drug treatment services and people who rely on them. This VICE UK vid explains the cruel drug treatment experiment pursued by the Tories since 2010... video.vice.com/en_uk/video/vi…

Great to hear owenjones84 highlighting the failure of the war on drugs, disproportionate racial injustice of current policies, and the clear need for an alternative. Listen to him stating the facts and shredding the dogma👇🏼 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

A reminder, as we're in the thick of Labour selections for Parliamentary candidates at the next general election - We've got some drug policy reform suggested questions to ask prospective candidates to ensure that their views on drugs are known⬇️ labour-drug-policy.squarespace.com/selectionquest…

Labour MP @charlotte2153 making the case for the long overdue rescheduling of psilocybin to enable research into potential therapeutic purposes. Evidence must be the basis of policymaking, not political expediency.

🖊️NEW #MEIBlog🖊️ In his latest piece, @wordsbyjayj criticises #Labour's 'tough on drug use, disinterested in the causes of drug use' approach, and argues that #KeirStarmer has a unique opportunity to 'implement radical change in Britain's drug laws'👇 qmul.ac.uk/mei/news-and-o…

"By creating the tyranny of the marginal constituency, our first-past-the-post system rewards lowest-common-denominator politics." @wordsbyjayj of Labour Campaign for Drug Policy Reform on the urgent need for drug policy reform - and why it won't happen without PR ow.ly/b6hA50MxRpu

Challenged by Jeff Smith on Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs advice that a ban on laughing gas would be disproportionate Suella Braverman says govt entitled to take a different view and there is emerging evidence it can cause serious harm to health and well being