Drugs and Alcohol Today1 Abstract Purpose: To document a leading UK cannabis activist's efforts to bring about policy change and to convey his human story as a medical consumer. The paper contends that it is not enough to present evidence based policies (EBP) to effect change in drug policy, it is also vital to tell human stories, to develop narratives which speak to people's values.
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