Drug Policy: Future of the War on Drugs

For over 50 years, we have witnessed the ramifications of banning psychoactive drugs. With the drug sales in the hands of black markets- policy leaders, ex-law enforcement officers, and human rights activists are urging a reconsideration of UK drug policy. 

How has the drug war caused more harm than good? How do we reconcile these devastating effects of prohibition? And how can we move forward in our policy, whilst maintaining equality, management of corporate power and public health? With radical policy changes in the past decade across Europe and the Americas, what lessons can we learn from these different counties in creating a sustainable UK, and international, drug policy model? How do we prevent new legal markets marginalising ethnic minority groups? And how do we overcome dangers from profit motivations and commercialisation?

Join us for this varied panel of experts in international drug policy reform, from artist to undercover-cop, to discuss the war on drugs. From its history of prohibition to our current psychedelic renaissance, what does the future hold for new and reformed international drug policies?

This panel will be part two of our two-part series on drug policy. With a new generation of drug policy reformers and psychedelic researchers, we want to shine a light on the healing powers of banned substances, the consequences of prohibiting psychoactive substances and explore the future of the war on drugs.