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Police Discrimination

This video shows two responses by the police to the same situation in the first part the police act aggressively and basically accused the group of wrongdoing without justification. In the second part of the video the police approach the group in a more suitable way asking them to move on without getting aggressive about it.

Significant condemnation of US drugs policy

In a majority vote at their 102nd Annual Conference at Los Angeles on Tuesday, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has passed an historic resolution calling for an end to America’s ‘war on drugs’.

A conversation with a Policeman

Should drugs be legalised? What are the main reasons for anti-social behaviour? What is problematic drug use and how can we endeavour to tackle this huge problem? DCI Trevor Williamson, the co-ordinator to ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) Drugs Committee, provides some insightful answers.

The realities of stop and search

What is stop and search?

Indentifying drug abusers

This video harks back to an innocent age when a mass culture of illicit drug use seemed to be a new phenomena. The idea that police and other authorities would need to be educated about how to spot drugs and drug users seems very strange, we are now inundated with images of drug use in popular culture even if we have no personal experience of drug use ourselves.

Why did this change happen? What were the drivers for this change? Does it represent a change in perception or a real change? The history of the 'war on drug' is very confusing.

Festival Security Bamboozled when Police Refuse to make Drug Arrest

Found on a forum for the security industry is the account of a young man discovered trying to enter a festival with “1 ounze (sic) of white powder in one packet, loads of wraps of another white powder, a number of acid tabs (enough to qualify as dealing by themselves) and digital scales.”

Wait for it, there’s more to the story.

Glastonbury's new image

Much has been written about the evolution of the Glastonbury festival. Where the entrance ticket once cost a £1 and you were given a free pint of milk from the farm when you entered, to today’s sprawling tent-city home to some 250,000 temporary residents. Indeed, the festival is almost unrecognisable from what it was 40 years ago and as the site, music, price and culture of the event has changed, so has the drugs culture of the site.

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