SUPPORTERS OF TDPF SCOTLAND
‘Clearly, legal and illegal drugs play an enormous part in the chronicle of misery and discontent that is such a dominant part of the human story; but we must also recognise that they also offer possibilities of pleasure and escape that need not trap us in addiction or crime. Like almost anything in the human story, they are prone to abuse and misuse, but that is no argument for banning them, especially when the results of attempted prohibition are so disastrous and expensive in both human and financial terms'.
Richard Holloway


‘ I think it's long past time that Scotland faced the truth about drugs and the extra level of damage their illegality and prohibition imposes on individuals and society. The sort of rational debate and fact-based response to drug use that Transform has been championing throughout the UK for years needs to be brought to focus on Scotland, to reflect both the legislative realities brought about by the Scottish Parliament and the particularly Scottish mix of health, social, deprivation and addiction problems that people here face.  I look forward to offering continuing support to a laudable and much-needed cause’.
Iain Banks, TDPF Scotland Patron


‘The aim of public policy should be to reduce harm of every kind; to individuals as well as to families, communities and society as a whole. The political debate should be driven by this imperative rather than by a desire to appear tough. UK drugs control laws are more than 30 years old, a product of a bygone age. A growing number of voices, both at home and abroad, are raising questions about whether the current national and international legal framework is fit for purpose - this discussion cannot be a no-go area’.
Susan Deacon


‘If people are addicted to heroin, give them heroin. I'm not suggesting you sell it at newsagents, but if you were to offer it to addicts in a medically controlled setting, there would be no criminal market. We've created a huge market for criminals to operate in. I think the drug element in all criminal behavior is massively greater than we are led to believe. In other countries, drug addiction is treated as a health problem. Here it is treated as a legal problem’.
Lord McCluskey