Government
Legal System
Medicinal cannabis
Health organisations
Information
Policy reform campaign
groups
Cannabis users rights groups
Prohibition supporters
Scotland
Wales
Europe
International
Government:
Crime:
Drugs Strategy Directorate: www.drugs.gov.uk/NationalStrategy/DrugsStrategyDirectorate
Home Office website: Drug Prevention - www.homeoffice.gov.uk/atoz/drugs.htm
Home Office publications - www.homeoffice.gov.uk/pubs.htm
'Tackling drugs to build a better Britain': www.drugs.gov.uk
Action Against Drugs Unit: www.homeoffice.gov.uk/pcrg/aadu2.htm
Anti Drugs Co-ordination Unit (ADCU): www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/anti-drugs/index.htm
ADCU - www.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm39/3945/3945.htm
Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD): www.homeoffice.gov.uk/cpd/anrep99.htm
ACMD's Biennial Report Financial Years
1999/2001 (pdf - 48kb): www.homeoffice.gov.uk/pubapps/acmd_biennial_report_1999-2001.PDF
Crime Prevention Initiative: www.mmu.ac.uk/academic/security/guide.htm
Crime & Disorder Partnerships: www.crimereduction.gov.uk
Drug Communications Pack: www.drugs.gov.uk/ReportsandPublications/Publications/DrugCommunicationsPack
Drug Prevention Advisory Service - www.homeoffice.gov.uk/dpas/reports.htm
...................www.homeoffice.gov.uk/dpas/dpas.htm
National Drugs Helpline & website: 0800 77 66
00 www.ndh.org.uk
Alcohol Helpline: 0800 917 8282.
Drug Action Teams: www.doh.gov.uk/drugs/drugactionteams.htm
Health:
Department of Health - www.doh.gov.uk/outlook.htm
Introduction to DoH role in Government
drug policy: www.drugs.gov.uk/Links/UKGovernment/GovernmentDepartments/DepartmentofHealth
DoH - Substance Misuse - www.doh.gov.uk/drugs
National Drug Prevention Development Team: www.doh.gov.uk/drugs/drugppp.htm
DoH report 'Saving Lives:
Our Healthier Nation': www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm43/4386/4386-00.htm
Our Healthier Nation Website: www.ohn.gov.uk
DoH Guidance - communicating to the public about risk:
www.doh.gov.uk/pointers.htm
DoH Alcohol Misuse Information: www.doh.gov.uk/alcohol/index.htm
Alcohol: frequently asked questions: www.food.gov.uk/healthieating/dailydiet/alcohol
Statistics on alcohol: 1976 onwards (DOH): www.doh.gov.uk/public/sb9924.htm
National Alcohol Strategy: www.doh.gov.uk/alcohol/alcoholstrategy.htm
Alcohol Education and Research Council: www.aerc.org.uk
Health Development Agency (HDA): www.hda-online.org.uk
..................HDA alcohol: www.wrecked.co.uk
..................HDA drugs: www.trashed.co.uk
Drug Education and Prevention Information Service (DEPIS):
www.resourcenet.org.uk
National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA):
www.nta.nhs.uk
Giving up smoking - NHS advice: www.givingupsmoking.co.uk
Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health: www.doh.gov.uk/scoth/index.htm
Health Action Zones: www.haznet.org.uk/
Education:
Drug Education: http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/publications/docs/435.pdf
Drug Education Forum: www.drugeducation.org.uk
More: www.dfee.gov.uk/circulars/4_95/contents.htm
National Healthy Schools Standard: http://www.ohn.gov.uk/
DoH Drugs Education: www.doh.gov.uk/drugs/resourcespack.htm
Drugslife: www.drugslife.info
The Advisory Council on Alcohol and
Drug Education (TACADE): www.tacade.com
Life Education Centres: www.lifeeducation.org.uk/components/intro.html
D-2K Website: www.d-2k.co.uk
Mind, Body & Soul: www.mindbodysoul.gov.uk
Wired for Health: www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk/index.html
Other:
Audit Commission's 'Changing Habits': http://ww2.audit-commission.gov.uk/publications/pdf/changinghabits.pdf
Strategy Unit: www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/innovation
Diversity & Social Inclusion: www.britishcouncil.org/governance/div/index.htm
Social Exclusion Unit: www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/seu/index.htm
Cabinet Office Diversity Website: www.diversity-whatworks.gov.uk
Equal Opportunities Commission: www.eoc.org.uk
Neighbourhood Renewal: www.neighbourhoodrenewal.gov.uk
Community Development Foundation: www.cdf.org.uk
Community Fund: www.community-fund.org.uk
OurPartnership.org.uk: www.ourpartnership.org.uk
Connexions Service: www.connexions.gov.uk
DTI Home safety: www.consumer.gov.uk/homesafetynetwork
Reports:
10 year Plan for Tackling Substance Misuse: www.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm39/3945/3945.htm
The Government's Drugs Policy: Is it working? (3rd
Report of the Home Affairs Select Committee): www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmhaff.htm
The Government reply to the Third Report from HASC: www.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm55/5573/5573.htm
Advisory Council for the Misuse of
Drugs' The classification of cannabis under the
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971: www.drugs.gov.uk/ReportsandPublications/Communities/HO_drugsadvice.pdf
ACMD's Reducing Drug Related Deaths: www.homeoffice.gov.uk/pcrg/rdrd.htm
Government reply to ACMD's Reducing
Drug Related Deaths: www.drugs.gov.uk/ReportsandPublications/Treatment/1034758434/drug_related_deaths_response.pdf
House of Lords 1998 report on medicinal use of
cannabis: www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199798/ldselect/ldsctech/151/15101.htm
Updated Drug Strategy 2002 (4Mb): www.drugs.gov.uk/ReportsandPublications/NationalStrategy/1038840683/Updated_Drug_Strategy_2002.pdf
Driving:
Government - www.roads.detr.gov.uk/roadsafety/research16/index.htm
- summary
Government - www.roads.detr.gov.uk/roadsafety/cannabis/index.htm
- detail.
Legal system:
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, text: www.ukcia.org/pollaw/lawlibrary/misuseofdrugsact1971.html
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs: www.drugs.gov.uk/Links/National/A-C/AdvisoryCouncilontheMisuseofDrugs
UN Drug Conventions: www.unodc.org/odccp/un_treaties_and_resolutions.html
Criminal Justice System: www.cjsonline.gov.uk/home.html
Crown Prosecution Service: www.cps.gov.uk
Independent Drug Monitoring Unit (monitoring &
legal advice): www.idmu.co.uk
Release (legal advice): www.release.org.uk
Release's Inclusion Unit: www.release-incl.demon.co.uk
Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) - jurors'
right & duty to judge the Law: www.fija.org
www.juryduty.org
Medicinal cannabis:
GW Pharmaceuticals (clinical trials) - www.gwpharm.com
.................GW's clinical
trials: www.gwpharm.com/cann_ther_index.html
Common Sense for Drug Policy - www.lindesmith.org/mmjcsdp.html
Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics - http://marijuana-as-medicine.org/alliance.htm
The International Association for Cannabis as
Medicine - www.acmed.org/english/home.htm
Medicinal Cannabis Research Foundation - www.helpcannabisresearch.org/
.................http://www.helpcannabisresearch.org/faqs/research.phtml?mcrf
Independent Drug
Monitoring Unit: www.idmu.co.uk/summed.htm
.................www.idmu.co.uk/medicinal.htm
BMA: www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/Therapeutic+uses+of+cannabis+-+(m)?OpenDocument&Highlight=2,tobacco
THC4MS (Cannabis for MS
sufferers): www.thc4ms.org.uk
UK Medicinal Cannabis Project: www.medicinal-cannabis.org
Medical Marijuana Cooperative (MMCO): www.mmco.org.uk
Health
Organisations:
Angels Against Addiction: www.aona.co.uk/angelsaa.asp
Alcohol Concern: www.alcoholconcern.org.uk
...........Drugs policy: www.alcoholconcern.org.uk/Newsdesk/Press%20_Releases%20_2002/14th%20Jan.htm
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH): www.ash.org.uk
...........ASH cannabis policy:
www.ash.org.uk/html/regulation/html/cannabis.html
Institute for Alcohol Studies (IAS): www.ias.org.uk/intro.htm
Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence - www.isdd.co.uk/dat/intro.asp
National Addiction Centre, Kings
College, London: www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/IoP/Departments/PsychMed/NAC/index.stm
Centre for Addiction Studies: www.sghms.ac.uk/depts/addictive-behaviour/centre/centre.htm
Oxfordshire Council on Alcohol and Drug Use (O.C.A.D.U)
- Libra: www.brookes.ac.uk/health/libra/index.html
Health Promotion England: www.hpe.org.uk
Health Promotion Agency: www.drugsprevention.net
Addiction Today journal (full text): www.addictiontoday.com
Information:
Social Science Information Gateway: www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/UK-cat/submisuse.html
Addaction: www.addaction.org.uk
Drugscope: www.drugscope.org.uk/home.asp
New Scientist's cannabis reports: www.newscientist.com/hottopics/marijuana/memory.jsp
Guardian Newspaper: www.guardian.co.uk/drugs
www.substancemisuse.net
Lifeline (education & support): www.lifeline.org.uk/index.html
The Media Awareness Project
(MAP): www.mapinc.org/index.htm
News and links to drug information: www.dailydose.net
HIT – training, consultation and information on
drug-related issues: www.hit.org.uk
LocateNet - drug education for young people, their
parents and carers: www.locatenet.org.uk
Children's BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/uk/drugs/newsid_1609000/1609624.stm
The Society for the Prevention of Solvent and
Volatile Substance Abuse (Re-Solv): www.re-solv.org
Solvent Misuse Project at the National
Children's Bureau: www.ncb.org.uk/solvent.htm
Inclusion - providing information to those working
with young drug users: www.release-incl.demon.co.uk
Drug Library: www.druglibrary.org
Erowid's psychoactive vaults: www.erowid.org/psychoactives/psychoactives.shtml
Drug war facts: www.drugwarfacts.org
Thesite (for young people): www.thesite.org/info/drugs
Police and Schools Liason: http://education.ntu.ac.uk/gmp/5_drugs/01_aims.html
Combatting Social Exclusion: www.surrey.ac.uk/Education/cse/index.htm
Drug Policy Reform Groups:
Transform: www.transform-drugs.org.uk
Transform Drug Policy Institute: www.tdpi.org.uk
The UK Harm Reduction Alliance (UKHRA): www.ukhra.org
Green Party Drugs Group: www.greenparty.org.uk/drugs
Police Foundation's report into the
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971: www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/runciman/default.htm
Government's response to Police Foundation's report: www.transform-drugs.org.uk/govtresp.htm
Transform's reply to Police Foundation's report: www.transform-drugs.org.uk/mainsubmis.htm
Trade Justice Movement: www.tradejusticemovement.org.uk
Chris Davies MEP: www.chrisdaviesmep.org.uk/articles/more_people_will_die.htm
Paul Flynn MP: www.paulflynnmp.co.uk/newsdetail.jsp?id=242
Eddie Ellison's website (former
operational head of Scotland Yard's Drug Squad):
http://eddie.gn.apc.org/main.html
Compassionate Conservatives: www.compassionateconservatives.org.uk
THC Club (UN drug policy reform): www.schmoo.co.uk/thclub.htm
Drug Policy Review Group (DPRG): PO Box 16548, London
SE22 8ZT [email protected]
International Harm Reduction Conference 2002: www.ihrc2002.net
Cannabis users rights
groups:
Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA): www.lca-uk.org
Cannabis Campaigner's Guide: www.ccguide.org.uk
Campaign to Legalise Cannabis International
Association (CLCIA): www.clcia.org.uk
UK Cannabis Internet Activists (UKCIA): www.ukcia.org
News magazine: www.ccnews.org.uk
UK420: www.uk420.com/main.php
Slatts: www.slatts.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm
Bob Owen's US 'PALAD': www.olywa.net/when/main.html
Mr Free Rob Cannabis (halfway down page): www.24-7valencia.com/archiveh.htm+%22rob+cannabis%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Colin Davies: www.ccguide.org.uk/colindaviesstory.html
Stockport café - The Dutch Experience: www.dutchexperience.org
Edinburgh café - Rebel Inc: www.rebelinccoffeeshop.com
Rhyl café - The Beggars Belief: www.thebeggarsbelief.com/main.htm
Taunton café: www.whspliff.net
Worthing café - The Herb Connection: www.theherbconnection.co.uk
LCA co-ordinator's website: www.buffry.connectfree.co.uk/bt020502.htm
LEGALIZE, a global legalisation movement: www.legalize.org/global
Amnesty International: www.amnesty.org
Liberty (Human rights): www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk
Angel Declaration (International legalisation
declaration): www.angeldeclaration.com
Charter88: www.charter88.org.uk
International Cannabis Coalition: www.cannabiscoalition.org
Harm Reductionist (CLCIA): www.paston.co.uk/users/derek
Green House: www.thegreenhouseorganisation.com
Legalise UK: www.eezeecope.demon.co.uk/Legalise-UK
Prohibition supporters:
National Drug Prevention Alliance (NDPA): www.drugprevent.demon.co.uk
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE): www.dare.uk.com/mainframe.html
Scotland:
Scotland Against Drugs: www.sad.org.uk
Scottish Drugs Forum: www.sdf.org.uk
Tackling Drugs In Scotland: www.scotland.gov.uk/library/documents-w7/tdis-00.htm
Health Education Board: www.hebs.com/topics/topiccontents.cfm?TxtTCode=53&TA=topictitles&newsnav=1&topic=drug
Wales & North Wales:
Welsh Assemby's 'Tackling Substance
Misuse in Wales': www.wales.gov.uk/subisocialpolicy/content/direct/misuse.htm
DATs - Crime v Health: www.wales.gov.uk/subisocialpolicy/content/consultations/daat-e.htm
SubstanceMisuseNet: www.substancemisuse.net/wales
North Wales Drug & Alcohol Action Team (DAT): www.nwdaaf.org.uk
North Wales DAAF website (Denbighshire Council):
http://www.drugsmisuse.com
Assembly's Health website: www.wales.gov.uk/healthplanonline/index.htm
Europe:
Vienna 2003 (UN drug review, April 2003) - reform
campaign: www.edprc.org
European NGO Council on Drugs and Development: www.encod.org
Transnational Institute: www.tni.org/drugs/index.htm
Transnational Radical Party: http://servizi.radicalparty.org/drugs
Co-ordination of Radical Anti-prohibitionists (CORA):
www.agora.stm.it/coranet/coraeng/eng-home.htm
EU Monitoring Centre for Drug Addiction: www.emcdda.org
Pompidou Group: www.coe.int/T/E/Social_cohesion/Pompidou_Group
European Cities on Drug Policy: http://www.ecdp.net/news.htm
European Union DG-V (promoting public
health): http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg05/phealth/main.htm
Exchange on Drug Demand Reduction Action (EDDRA):
www.reitox.emcdda.org/eddra
DRUGTEXT(drug policy and human rights): www.drugtext.nl
ERIT - Federation of European Professionals working
in the field of Drug Abuse: www.erit.org
TRIMBOS Drug Information (Netherlands): www.trimbos.nl/indexuk.html
Drug Monitoring Centre of Finland (Part
of REITOX EU information network on drugs and drug
addiction): www.stakes.fi/reitox
European Commission - UK Office: www.cec.org.uk/index.htm
European Parliament: www.europarl.eu.int/home/default_en.htm
International:
World Health Organisation:
.....................Cannabis v
alcohol: www.who.int/substance_abuse/docs/cannabis.pdf
.....................Drug information: http://www.who.int/druginformation
.....................Drug
control: www.who.int/health_topics/drug_narcotic_control/en
.....................Tobacco: www.who.int/health_topics/tobacco/en
and http://www5.who.int/tobacco/index.cfm
UN International Drug Control Programme: www.undcp.or.at
International Drug Control Conventions: www.unodc.org/odccp/un_treaties_and_resolutions.html
UN Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC): www.unodc.org
Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND): www.undcp.org/odccp/cnd_mandate.html
International Narcotics Control Board (INCB): www.incb.org/e/index.htm
UN Drug Control Program (Education): www.undcp.org/youthnet/pdf/handbook_what_are_drugs.pdf
Drug Reform Co-ordination Network (DRCNet): www.drcnet.org
US Drug Enforcement Agency (arguing against
legalisation): www.usdoj.gov/dea/demand/druglegal/index.html
