International drug control treaties need to allow for policy experiments The failure of the "war on drugs" is a standard presumption in most discussions of drug law reform. It has recently received impressive endorsement by high profile advocates, including retired senior statesmen (for example, ...
Courage to keep life out of law courts. I hope that the UK Parliament has the courage to keep care out of court, encourage better medical training and to leave the law alone - and that the same thing happens elsewhere. As Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship says: “We...
It is of note that a 2006 survey of doctors in the UK found low (2.6%) support for the idea that a new law to allow assisted dying or voluntary euthanasia would have helped real patients whose deaths they had attended, and a similarly low figure (4.6%) felt that the current legal ...