I'm looking forward to speaking at the All Party Parliamentary Group on drug misuse this afternoon; on

*Tackling the Emerging International Threat of Synthetic Drugs*

at The House of Lords, co-sponsored by PTACC, ISSUP #ForwardTrust The Nelson Trust & Druglink (a substance misuse charity)

An emergency warning for #xylazine was issued for Scotland yesterday 👇

It's a reminder that our drug supply won't get any safer unless we take serious action:

DRUG CHECKING
DCRs
SAFE SUPPLY
DECRIMINALISATION

Please stay safe and share with PWUD🔁

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#NorthernLights from Kilburn 😐

Join Transform's Ester & Steve Rolles for this Chacruna Institute community forum series webinar/Q&A livestreamed on crowdcast:

'How can we regulate nonmedical use of psychedelics'

This afternoon/evening 12:00-1:30PM PS

chacruna.net/regulate-non-m…

This International Harm Reduction Day, we are featuring a powerful set of films made for INPUD by Drog Reporter documenting the history of the global drug user movement with a focus on the activism that delivered us harm reduction. 1/4

In prep for the Summit of the Future, New York NGO Committee on Drugs (NYNGOC) & Vienna NGO Committee are convening an ImPACT Coalition on the Future of #DrugPolicy at #2024UNCSC ! Register to join a hybrid session on May 10 12.30-2 PM EAT (Nairobi)/5:30-7 AM ET (New York) bit.ly/3Jvil49 #OurCommonFuture #WeCommit

It's #InternationalHarmReductionDay ! 💉🔓🌱

The recent UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs resolution on overdose prevention is its 1st to mention ' #HarmReduction '! We hope it paves the way for many more.

🎉 We celebrate this win & call on states to adopt evidenced & lifesaving measures!

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This tabloid piece highlights the challenges with public cannabis reform events/celebrations; re[porting of politically useful messages invariably gets obscured by less useful 'six-joint pineapple mega-spliff' type coverage.
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