This is a blog by Mary Ryder, coordinator of Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drugs Control After half a century of fighting and a trillion dollars wasted on an ineffective and counterproductive policy, the drug war is a colossal failure. Yet while drug violence is a common topic in contemporary literature and film, from Breaking Bad to Narcos, we [...]
This is adapted from a speech given by Anyone's Child member, Anne-Marie Cockburn, at the University of Essex's THINK debate: 'the War on the War on Drugs' Anne-Marie alongside LEAP UK speaking at University of Essex's THINK debate - The War on the War on Drugs I’ve had a break for a few [...]
This is a guest blog by Eva from the Czech Republic Growing up in a country with a liberal drug policy (the Czech Republic) does not necessarily mean that you will appreciate it. It takes time, until you see how the rest of the world is dealing with this “problem”. I put [...]
An Anyone’s Child take on the characters in T2 Caution - contains spoilers! This is a blog by Mary Ryder, coordinator of Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drugs Control Trainspotting 2 is an emotional film, and a really gripping one. It is a harrowing depiction of 20 wasted years; the product of a vicious cycle of crime, [...]
Press Release 08 December 2016 - No embargo Bring 1930s Anti-Prohibition Car to Bristol Photo and Interview Opportunity What: This week is the anniversary of the end of US alcohol Prohibition. Bereaved Parents will call for drug legalisation because Prohibition still doesn’t work. They will protest using a 1930s car like one used in US anti-alcohol [...]
Speech for Anyone's Child fringe meeting at Conservatives Party Conference 2016 My name is Rose Humphries. I am a mother of two much-loved sons who both died from heroin. I want to tell you why I’m calling for legal regulation of drugs, through my sons’ stories. For half a century our laws have not [...]
It seems hard to believe that it's a full year today we launched the Anyone's Child campaign with the help of our amazing group of families. Together, they took their first bold steps arm in arm along Downing Street to deliver a letter to David Cameron (my, how quickly things change!) calling for the legal regulation [...]
Many of you here will know my story already, but for those of you who don’t - I am Martha’s mum. I am so very proud to stand here tonight next to the image of my girl. When I gave birth to Martha at the John Radcliffe Hospital in 1997 she looked at me with [...]
This blog was written by Anyone's Child project coordinator Jane Slater “I have come to accept that this is, sadly what kids do [take drugs]. But if they had known what they were taking, my boys would be alive today. I don’t want more families to suffer like mine.” Ray Lakeman, from the [...]
This blog was written by Anyone's Child member Mick Humphreys. The Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 (the “Act”), which was passed and published on 28 January 2016, came into force, or “commenced” on 26 May 2016. The Act defines what a psychoactive substance is under sections 2 as “any substance which is capable of producing a psychoactive [...]
