Transform Drug Policy Foundation

This collection is uncatalogued. The following is an interim description which may be altered when detailed cataloguing takes place in future.

Organisational records of Transform Drug Policy Foundation activities and business, created and collected by Danny Kushlick.

The records date back to the inception of Transform in the mid-1990s and mostly cover the 1990s and 2000s, with some more recent records from the 2010s.

The records include policy and lobbying records, correspondence with members of the public and Transform members, campaigns, subject files, press cuttings, and other matters relating to drug policy and decriminalisation.

Files were kept in a series arranged by topic, although the hanging files seem to have been created chronologically rather than stored in alphabetical order and file names were not consistent.

1990s-2010s

8 boxes

Transform Drug Policy Foundation (Transform) was established in 1996 to promote changes to drug legislation and policy, in favour of drug legalisation through a system of risk-based licensing.

Transform's work focuses around educating the public and policymakers on effective drug policy, campaigning and lobbying for legal and policy changes around drugs, developing and promoting viable alternatives to prohibition; and providing advocacy and support for those directly affected by current and historic drug policies and policing.

Our current system of drug prohibition fails everybody. That is why we believe currently illegal drugs should be legally regulated through a system of risk-based licensing.Their vision is: "an end to the war on drugs and the establishment of effective and humane systems of drug regulation."

Transform describes its activities as follows:

To carry out research, policy analysis and innovative policy development

To challenge government to demonstrate rational, fact-based evidence to support its policies and expenditure

To promote alternative, evidence-based policies to parliamentarians, government and government agencies

To advise non-governmental organisations whose work is affected by drugs in developing drug policies appropriate to their own mission and objectives

To provide an informed, rational and clear voice in the public and media debate on UK and international drug policy

For further information, see Transform's website: https://transformdrugs.org/

Transferred to Wellcome.

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