Formation
1996
Danny Kushlick
NGO
Charity
Drug policy reform
Bristol, UK
- Bristol, London, Mexico City
International
Dr James Nicholls[1]
Board of Trustees
10
Transform's vision:
Transform's mission:
Transform develops and advocates for new policies to bring currently illegal drugs under effective legal control and regulation based on evidence of effectiveness. It argues that current policy is outdated and counter-productive, having been based on law and order politics and misplaced 'drug war' ideologies. Instead, the organisation proposes that moves towards legal regulation and control of currently illegal drugs would produce dramatically improved policy outcomes as measured by key performance indicators in crime, public health and well being, environmental damage, international corruption and conflict, and public expenditure.
Transform works with policy-makers, charities and funders across the health, crime and social policy sectors. It works at both a local and national level in the United Kingdom, and also works internationally.
Transform's organisational activities include:
The organisation is consulted regularly by its key audiences in policy making, the NGO sector and the media.
Public impact[edit]
Transform has been steadily gaining support from professionals and public figures whose fields include policy making, academia, business, church, judiciary, police, media, public health and medicine.[4] Transform regularly appears in mainstream media debating, advising and responding to current issues within the drug policy field.