Misuse of Drugs in UK Law
- Book Review: Misuse of Drugs and Drug Trafficking Offences
- Recent Book: The Law Relating to the Misuse of Drugs
- Book review: Drug Science and British Drug Policy: Critical Analysis of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
- Book review: Drug Science and British Drug Policy: Critical Analysis of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
- Reviews : The Law on the Misuse of Drugs Rudi Fortson Sweet & Maxwell, 1988, £27.00 hbk, 330pp
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Experts, Expertise and Drug Policymaking
Over the past two decades, policymakers have been encouraged to develop evidence‐based policies in collaboration with experts. Drug policy is unique since it has an established inbuilt mechanism fo...... ... mechanism for soliciting expertise via the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). Increasingly alternative mechanisms have been used. Based ... ...
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Rethinking the generation gap
This article presents data from a secondary analysis of two public opinion surveys that were commissioned by the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act, which reported in 2000. It is larg...... ... Rethinking the generation gap: Attitudes to illicit drugs among young people and adults GEOFFREY PEARSON AND MICHAEL SHINER ... surveys that were commissioned by the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act, which reported in 2000. It is largely concerned with how ... ...
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Drug policy under New Labour 1997-2010: Prolonging the war on drugs
In 1997 New Labour came to power with a landslide victory. This period also marked a watershed for illicit drug use which had become so widespread across the UK that it was regarded as a mainstream...... ... Inheriting an unworkable 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act1997 seemed an opportune time for the New Labour government to deliver on its‘promise of change’and introduce drug legislationfit for ... ...
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The Retrospective Effect of S. 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998
When the House of Lords delivered its judgment in Lambert, comment initially concerned the fact that their Lordships held that the legal burden of proof placed on defendants in s. 28 of the Misuse ...... ... 28 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 contravened the presumption of innocence contained ... ...
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The discretionary death penalty for drug couriers in Singapore
In 2012, Singapore amended its Misuse of Drugs to give courts hearing capital drug trafficking cases the discretion to replace the default death penalty with life imprisonment and caning, provided ...... ... University, Singapore Abstract In 2012, Singapore amended its Misuse of Drugs to give courts hearing capital drug trafficking cases the ... ...
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