The Beckley Foundation feels that raising public awareness of the potential and importance of the areas in which the foundation works could be of great benefit to furthering both the scientific and policy research. We have therefore engaged with a number of journalists and broadcasters, the resulting video-clips, audio and articles can be found here, as well as interesting news we want to share with the world.
Beckley in the Media
Magic mushrooms, international law and the failed ‘war on drugs’ Amanda Feilding, 7 February 2012 This article was originally published in the Guardian. Click here for full article It’s been a busy fortnight. First the publication of two major peer-reviewed research papers about magic mushrooms that attracted worldwide publicity. Then off to Prague for an [...]
By Tom Peterkin Published on Sunday 27 November 2011 00:45 THE neo-classical splendour of Gosford House, one of Scotland’s finest stately homes, would appear to be a far cry from the misery caused by armed drugs cartels in Mexico. But an aristocratic member of the family which owns the Robert Adam mansion in East Lothian [...]
Amanda Feilding, director of the Beckley Foundation, will be speaking at tomorrows openDemocracy Event, ‘After the War on Drugs: Envisioning a Post Prohibition World’. Her talk will address the issues generated by the current UN drug conventions, and what an alternative convention may comprise of. She will take questions after her speech. Other speakers invited [...]
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The New American Written by Alex Newman Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:00 On the 50th anniversary of the United Nations treaty that led to the global “War on Drugs,” a group of prominent officials and legislators from the United Kingdom declared the battle a failure and formed a commission calling for new policies to [...]
Published in the Huffington Post, Wednesday 23 March 2011. Original Version. By Amanda Feilding, Director of the Beckley Foundation. In 1998 the UN declared: “a drug-free world, we can do it!” In reality, we cannot. The War on Drugs has failed. According to all available indices, it is no longer defendable. Vast expenditure on drug [...]
by Phillip Smith, February 06, 2011, 07:33pm, (Issue #670) Stopthedrugwar.org - A prestigious Washington, DC-based center for hemispheric policy analysis and discussion, the Inter-American Dialogue, is calling for a refashioning of US drug policy. It demands an end to “the silent tolerance of ineffective, socially harmful laws, institutions, and policies” and has some suggestions as to [...]
Mexico Legalizes Drug Possession New York Times – August 21, 2009 Lessons from the Dutch New York Times – by Prof. Peter Reuter in Room for debate blogs – July 19th, 2009. City trying to ‘hash out’ pot issue Denmark.dk – the official website of Denmark. 7th July 2009. Beckley Foundation issues Global Cannabis Commission [...]
