Adam Winstock: Why Being Honest About Drug-Related Risk Might Be the Best Public Health Policy Ever

Last year over 100,000 people took part in GDS2015 and helped us produce the world’s first safer use limits for an illicit (though increasingly legal) drug — cannabis (http://www.saferuselimits.co) . For many people the notion of describing a spectrum of drug related harm related to the use of an illicit harm is difficult to accommodate. It is the antithesis of many government’s chosen banner of zero tolerance which is totally consistent with the reason they state drugs are illegal –…