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Landmark Cannabis Inquiries

Posted on May 28, 2025 by Toby Seddon

Today, May 28th 2025, the London Drug Commission’s report on cannabis law and policy has finally been published. It has been an extremely interesting project to be involved in, as co-lead with my UCL colleague Ben Bradford on the reviewing … Continue reading →

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Drugs, gender and Dope Girls

Posted on March 10, 2025 by Toby Seddon

There are many very fine non-fiction books written about drugs and the number grows each year. But over time a handful stay the course and become classics that stand out from the crowd for their originality and insight. Marek Kohn’s … Continue reading →

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Rethinking Drug Law Reform in the Asian Century

Posted on July 23, 2021 by Toby Seddon

I recently wrote a piece for the Social & Legal Studies blog. Read it here.

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Regulating Cannabis

Posted on September 7, 2020 by Toby Seddon

In April 2016, I was in New York for an ISSDP meeting on cannabis policy in the Americas. At the end of the first day, I was due to meet up for dinner with Niamh Eastwood and Alex Stevens. I … Continue reading →

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Thinking historically about HAT

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Toby Seddon

In early 2016, when I was drafting my chapter on drugs for the ‘Oxford Handbook of Criminology’, I made a passing reference to Dr John Marks’ heroin prescribing practice in the 1980s. I had assumed that somewhere there would be … Continue reading →

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Drug law reform

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Toby Seddon

I have created a new page to bring together my previous and current work on drug law reform. Links to downloads where available.

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Drinking guidelines

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Toby Seddon

Listening to the Today programme this morning, I was interested to hear the Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, defending the new guidelines on weekly limits for safe drinking. She was particularly keen to stress their basis in science and evidence. … Continue reading →

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Free downloads

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Toby Seddon

As part of the general sprucing up of this website, I have added a page for ‘Papers’ which includes free-to-access articles and reports. I’ll continue to add to this. In the meantime, feel free to share and if there are … Continue reading →

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Revamped blog & website

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Toby Seddon

To start the new year, I’ve revamped this blog and website, to include new pages covering my books, papers and projects. Work is ongoing to build up the content but do take a look round.

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Laying down the lasso

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Toby Seddon

A recent report in The Guardian, on a ‘huge rise’ in illicit online sales of pharmaceuticals, reminded me of one of the best books I read in 2014: legal scholar Anupam Chander’s The Electronic Silk Road. Chander’s great insight, to … Continue reading →

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