Policy Advisory Council
Our unremunerated Policy Council approach drug policy reform from a wide variety of backgrounds, representing a wide range of sometimes contrasting views on how UK drug policy could be developed. However, they all agree that evidence-based drug policy reform is long overdue.
We have assembled an advisory Policy Council of world leading authorities in the different fields that, together, make up the landscape of drug policy in the UK. Their specialisms include the medical sciences and clinical medicine, economics, politics, law and law-enforcement, criminology, ethics, culture and media.
Chairman
CRISPIN BLUNT MP
Crispin was elected MP for Reigate in 1997 having formerly served as an army officer and subsequently Special Adviser in the MoD and FCO. In Parliament, Crispin was a Shadow Minister with briefs including trade, energy and science; security and counter-terrorism. Since 2010 he has served as both Minister for Prisons, Probation and Youth Justice and as Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Currently he is the first Conservative to Co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Drug Policy Reform, Chairs the APPG for Global LGBT Rights, and is Co-Chair of the APPG for Humanism. He is the Conservative Middle East Council’s Vice-Chair.
In January 2019 Crispin set up and launched the Conservative Drug Policy Reform Group Ltd, whose objective is to promote evidence-based drug policy reform on the centre right. He is the Group’s unremunerated Chair.
Science & Medicine
Shirley Cramer, CBE
Former Chief Executive, Royal Society of Public Health
Professor Mike Barnes, MBBS FRCP
Past President, British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine
Professor David Nutt, DM FRCPsych FRCP FMedSci
Edmond J. Safra Professor of Psychoneuropharmacology, Imperial College London
Dr. Dani Gordon, MD, CCFP, ABOIM, ABIHM
Clinical Cannabinoid Medicine Physician Specialist
Professor Jo Neill, PhD
Past President, British Association for Psychopharmacology
Dr. Julie Moltke, MD
Medicinal cannabis educator, author, and prescriber at Clinic Horsted.
law-enforcement
Stephen Mold
Conservative Police & Crime Commissioner, Northamptonshire
Ch Const Tom Lloyd, QPM, MA(Oxon)
Former Director of Strategic Co-ordination, New Scotland Yard
Ch Const Mike Barton, QPM, CBE
Former Chief Constable, Durham
Politics, Economics & Ethics
Dr Dan Poulter MP Llb (hons), MBBS, AKC, MRCPsych
Member of the International Development Committee, Co-Chair of the APPG on Global Health, and former Under Secretary of State for Health Services
Lord Benjamin Mancroft
Drug Policy Specialist, House of Lords, and former Chairman of the Drug and Alcohol Foundation
Miles Briggs MSP
Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport, Scottish Parliament
Professor Sir Paul Collier CBE, FBA, PhD
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, and Director of the International Growth Centre
Professor Julian Savulescu BMedSci MBBS MA PhD
Director, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Andrew Boff AM
Elected London-wide Conservative Assembly Member, Greater London Authority
Marcus Booth
Conservative Party Treasurer, Treasurer of Conservatives Abroad, Chairman of the Conservatives’ Business and Entrepreneurs Forum and a member of the Conservative Party’s Disciplinary Committee
LAW and criminology
Professor Fiona Measham PhD
Chair in Criminology, University of Liverpool
Melissa Bone Phd
Lecturer in Law, University of Leicester, and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy