Policy documents:
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UK policy
Drugs: protecting families and communities - 2008-2018 strategy, 2008
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Drug Strategy: Action Plan 2008-2011 2008
Cannabis: classification and public health, 2008
The reasons for the majority decision by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) against reclassification.
Home Office Cannabis Potency Study 2008
Report from ACMD representing the Council’s response to the Home Secretary’s request for more information on the potential mental health effects of cannabis.
National Community Safety Plan 2008-11 2007 (PDF 254KB)
Safe, sensible, social - the next steps in the National Alcohol Strategy Summary. UK. Home office, 2007 (PDF 1MB)
Cutting crime - a new partnership. The Home Office Crime Strategy 2007 (PDF 1MB)
Report of Second Tier Activity in the Drugs Sector: final report. 2007 (PDF 217KB)
Drug laws and licensing: Personal licences for travellers who are carrying certain controlled drugs abroad (PDF 202KB) See the guidance here 2007 (PDF 26KB)
Drug classification: making a hash of it?: Fifth report of Session 2005-06: report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 2006
ACMD report on the classification of Cannabis 2006
Home Office corporate plan 2005-6
Tackling Drugs. Changing Lives 2004 (PDF 1MB)
Hidden Harm: Executive Summary 2003 (PDF 703KB)
Drug Interventions Programme 2003
The Drug Strategy An overview 2002
Tackling Crack: A National Plan (PDF 0.9MB) 2002
Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain 1998
Scottish policy
The Road to Recovery: a new approach to tackling Scotland's drug problem (PDF)
The Scottish Government's new national drugs strategy.
Drugs Action Plan: Protecting our Future [modified 2006] (PDF 1.4MB)
Prevention and treatment of substance misuse: delivering the right medicine: a strategy for pharmaceutical care in Scotland 2005
Scottish Executive's Annual Report on Drugs Misuse 2003
Interim National Key Indicators Report for Scotland 2000
Tackling Drugs in Scotland: Action in Partnership 1999
Scottish Drug Misuse Information Strategy 1998
Welsh strategy
Working Together to Reduce Harm - The Substance Misuse Strategy for Wales 2008-2018. 2008.
Report setting out new 10 year strategy which aims to set out a national agenda for tackling and reducing the harms associated with substance misuse in Wales.
Download: Full report (PDF 982KB)
Tackling subtance misuse in Wales: A partnership approach 2000-2008
(PDF 2.1MB)
Northern Irish strategy
Drugs Strategy for Northern Ireland (PDF 1MB)
European policy
National Drug Strategies for European Union countries EMCDDA
EU Action plan on drugs 2005-2008
EU Drugs Strategy 2005-2012
Annual report 2007:the state of the drugs problem in the European Union and Norway - EMCDDA 2007
Guidelines for Drugs Policy in the 21st Century 2001(PDF)
European Union - Combating Drugs
USA & Canada
Canada's Drug Strategy Canada 2002
The President's National Drug Control Strategy USA 2007
Asia Pacific Region
Australia's National Drug Strategy Australia 2004-2007
New Zealand Drug Policy New Zealand 2007
Singapore Drug Strategy 2007
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region - Narcotics Division
International Treaties and Organisations
United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 1988
Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961
International Narcotics Control Board Annual Report 2007
Studies of public policy & coordination
World Drug Report 2008
The Beckley Foundation produces many reports on drug policy
Runciman report -Police Foundation inquiry in Misuse of Drugs Act (PDF 3.7MB) Large file 2000
Select Committee on Science and Technology Second Report on the Therapeutic Uses of Cannabis 2001 (PDF 44KB)
The Government's Drugs Policy: Is it working? Home Affairs Committee Inquiry on Drugs
Government response to Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, Home Office 2001
The Road to Ruin - Sequences of initiation into drug use and offending by young people in Britain, Home Office 2002 (PDF 167 KB)
Time for Breakthrough – Polarisation and Paralysis in Global Drug Policy, TNI, 2002 (PDF)
Room for manouvre: Overview of comparative legal research into national drug laws of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Sweden and their relation to three international drugs conventions, DrugScope 2002 (PDF 103KB)
Tackling Drugs. Changing Lives Latest updates 2007
