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Release is the UK centre of expertise on drugs and drugs law – providing free and confidential specialist advice to the public and professionals. Release campaigns for changes to UK drug policy.
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Release Some MPs have tabled a motion in parliament calling for drug policy to be based on evidence. see if your MP has signed it, and if not, email him now and ask that he does.

Source: edmi.parliament.uk
United Kingdom Parliament website homepage
Oliver
Oliver
written to MP today and shared link with friends in the hope they do the same.
Sat at 05:38
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Release We have launched a blog - a weekly comment on the ever-developing culture of drug use. What is it called? Release on Drugs, of course.

Source: releaseondrugs.blogspot.com
The affair of David Nutt’s sacking has prompted widespread debate. The injustice of the dismissal is, therefore, balanced by the opportunities it has provided to push the boundaries of the conversation ...
Release
Release
just to play devil's advocate for a bit...do we want Prof Nutt reinstated? maybe if more ACMD council members resign instead, and the whole thing becomes unworkable, it will be even more embarrassing for Gvt, and they will be forced to behave differently? just a thought...
05 November at 06:51
Lee Price
Lee Price
Aye what would the point be of reinstating him, would they also start to follow his advice?
05 November at 11:57
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Release considering the support for David Nutt, we think our facebook fans should be doubling in size by now...get your friends to join so that we can show the government the strength of feeling out there about this!

02 November at 06:30
Lee Price
Lee Price
Absolutely! No one will hear our voices if we remain quiet! I hope more of my contacts take the time to notice the good work you guys are doing.
02 November at 07:07
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Release 31 October 2009

Alun
Alun
if we can get massive support fast it will get extra publicity and grow even faster than weed!

please spread the link amongst all your UK friends and relevant groups, causes, sites, blogs and links

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Back-Prof-Nutt/... Read more

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Re-instate Professor David Nutt
02 November at 03:21
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Release ..before he was sacked. 29 October 2009

Alun
Alun
if we can get massive support fast it will get extra publicity and grow even faster than weed!

please spread the link amongst all your UK friends and relevant groups, causes, sites, blogs and links

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Back-Prof-Nutt/... Read more

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Re-instate Professor David Nutt
02 November at 03:22
Release

Release BBC News interview, before the government sacked Professor Nutt.

Thomas
02 November at 03:11
Heathen Jimmy Lovechild
Heathen Jimmy Lovechild
What a can of worms the NUTT case has opened!!!
02 November at 05:44
Release

Release can't believe Prof Nutt has been sacked. what a disgrace. join this group to show your support for an evidence based drug policy

Professor David Nutt, the Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has been sacked. The council is an independent body that is supposed to advise the government on the application of the m...
Ian
Ian
What is astonishing is how government and their supporters have the cheek to fudge the real issues here. Yes, these top scientists' expertise is confined to assessing all aspects of the harms issues. Politicians - especially ideologically puritanical or weakly populist ones like ours - may very well feel obliged to follow other priorities when ... Read moremaking law. But they are caught by their own shoe-laces here, since the law requires assignment of a drug to classes A to C to be decided objectively via harm assessments. Political rhetoric like invoking the alleged extra dangers of new strains of skunk - something only the experts can and did assess - directly challenge the advisers' own expertise, so are a totally intolerable affront to independent science itself.
01 November at 10:58
Release

Release has just been on BBC radio 5 live and Sky News radio supporting Prof Nutt's latest paper on drugs...bound to be repeated throughout the day, so listen in!

28 October at 23:24
Carol Anne Wright
Carol Anne Wright
Thank you Michael for the links. very nice. just heard Prof got sacked. sad sad sad.mmmm Hugz carol
30 October at 15:12
Greg Solomon
Greg Solomon
And he now seems to have been sacked by the government for his evidence-based views, I assume as they are not politically correct views
30 October at 17:48
Release

Release first wave of sales of deck of cards are underway - have you ordered yours yet?

Source: www.release.org.uk
Nice People Take Drugs - Release : Drugs, The Law & Human Rights
Georgine Waller
Georgine Waller
they are amazing!!
26 October at 09:50
Lee Price
Lee Price
haha these are great!
26 October at 15:26
Adrian Dyke
Adrian Dyke
ordering now!
27 October at 04:59
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Release They're finally here! The eagerly awaited and very cool nice people take drugs deck of cards can now be yours for just £5. Even if you know nothing/don't care about politics, you'll definitely recognise some of the faces on these cards...just look who we decided HAD to be the Joker...

Source: www.release.org.uk
Nice People Take Drugs - Release : Drugs, The Law & Human Rights
Release

Release Interview with World Radio Switzerland about heroin prescribing - the Swiss have been doing it for years, when will the UK catch on?

Source: fsn.typepad.com
I've just filed a package for World Radio Switzerland on the recently published preliminary findings of a UK trial which has seen heroin addicts given the drug in an attempt to cut crime and help them deal with their addiction. ...
Michael Lawrence
20 October at 09:23
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Release c'mon you Release facebook fans, you must have plenty of friends who are also a fan of the work we do...can you help us to reach 2000 fans by next week?

20 October at 03:08
Michael Lawrence
Michael Lawrence
I have sent a load of invites.
20 October at 09:29
Release

Release An excellent article in The Times that captures very well the widespread use of drugs - and the need to address recreational drug use and dependent drug use in different ways

Source: women.timesonline.co.uk
It’s Friday midnight and, in the corner of a vast Manchester nightclub, I’m having an earnest discussion with Becky, a sensible, homely-looking woman in her mid-30s, who has two lines of cocaine and several Ecstasy tablets coursing around her bloodstream.
Darin Mcnulty
Darin Mcnulty
and medical use as different again groovon
19 October at 12:53
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Release A great article by our friends and colleagues at TalkingDrugs.org summarises the story well. Take Action today.

Source: www.talkingdrugs.org
A 53 year old father of five from North London may be executed by Chinese authorities any day now as his appeal against drug smuggling charges was rejected. Akmal Shaikh who had run a successful taxi company ...
Release

Release China to go ahead with execution of mentally ill Briton

Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Family appeal to Beijing for clemency in heroin possession case
Release
Release
Please email Foreign Secretary David Miliband NOW asking him to intervene on Akmal Shaikh's behalf; here is the address you can use:
msu.correspondence@fco.gov.uk
15 October at 06:57