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Chasing the Scream, the talk

The last days of the war on drugs - and how to bring them to pass. The video of the London open book event.

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Billie Holiday, Harry Anslinger and race hysteria in drug criminalisation

Leigh Maddox, police woman from the frontline who changed her mind

Mexican drug cartels & the story of Rosalio Retta. What we're doing to people on supply routes

Jose Mujica's reaction to the threat of Uruguay becoming a narco-state

Rat Park & addiciton

What would being tough on the causes of addiction mean?

Female chain-gangs in Arizona

Nictoine, chemical theory of addiction, patches

John Marks and the Merseyside experiment

Is opium the opiate of the masses? Is legalisation a middle class indulgence?

The Portuguese decriminalisation

What is a strategy for change? Not top-down ...

Grassroots change in Vancouver, Downtown East-Side, Bud Osborne

Is anything going to change? The political elites are waiting for our permission

An ex-addict speaks about prescription drug substitution

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