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# openDemocracy event London: oD author Charles Shaw asks 'Who's addicted to the War on Drugs?'
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracy-event-london-od-author-charles-shaw-asks-whos-addicted-to-war-on-drugs/
- Published: 2010-10-22T19:10:22.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:09:57.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: openDemocracy News - archive, #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:11

You are invited to join [Charles Shaw](http://www.opendemocracy.net/authors/charles-shaw), openDemocracy author and activist and acclaimed documentary maker and criminologist, Roger Graef for an evening of discussion and testimony of drugs policy and criminal justice on:

**7pm, Tuesday 16 November 2010**

[**The Hub**](http://kingscross.the-hub.net/public/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**, 34b York Way, Kings Cross, London, N1 9AB**

Limited number of places: please email [info@opendemocracy.net](mailto:info@opendemocracy.net) to reserve a place.

What is it that maintains our mixed up and contradictory drugs policies – often in the face of expert consensus? What is the balance of damage being done to individuals by drugs and the system of punishing drug taking? What should our social and personal attitudes towards different drugs be if there were fuller decriminalisation? And why are attitudes to alcohol and tobacco so different?

**Read more on Charles Shaw's projects** 

The openDemocracy [Drug Policy Forum](http://www.opendemocracy.net/editorial-tags/drug-policy-forum)

The [Unheard Voices Project](http://www.opendemocracy.net/unheard-voices)