The Ted Noffs Foundation Blog by Matt Noffs

• Have we seen a reduction in the use of illicit drugs as a result of spending on law enforcement?

  July 31, 2017 The Noffs Team Comments

  - Updated 19 February 2019 Law enforcement has played a central role in global drug policy for the past 50 years. Governments of developed and developing nations alike have devoted large sections of their budgets to policing drug use and supply, resulting in an increased use of punitive sanctions and a ...

• Defense Against the Dark Arts

  July 24, 2017 The Noffs Team Comments

  I was having a BBQ at my house last weekend when I noticed one of my friends drinking a beer. Pretty normal except for the fact that, one year previously he had sworn off alcohol and was adamant that he would never return to drinking. He said he had always ...

• He kaw te law case

  July 17, 2017 The Noffs Team Comments

  GEEKING OUT OVER AUSTRALIAN DRUG LAW I'm a Criminal Justice scholar so I find myself regularly geeking out over criminal law and drug law reform. For instance, NSW legislation has some remarkable drug regulations buried in it that have pioneered drug law reform throughout the country and the world ...

• Drug dependency is a temporary problem

  July 10, 2017 The Noffs Team Comments

  I recently read and tweeted out this article Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of it: Why Is this Widely Denied about how people "grow out of" addiction. I'm not sure I agree with the terminology but the take home message here is undeniable: drug dependency is a ...

• The how, when and why of Uruguay

  July 03, 2017 The Noffs Team Comments

  Uruguay stunned the world when it became the first country to fully legalise cannabis use, cultivation and sale in December 2013. However, the issue had been brewing for decades prior, with a committed grassroots movement seizing on Uruguay’s traditionally liberal attitude to social policy to push for law reform ...