Transform Drug Policy Foundation (Transform) is a registered non-profit charity based in the
United Kingdom
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working in
drug policy reform
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. As an independent
think tank
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, Transform works to promote public health, social justice and human rights through drug policy reform, seeking to achieve these goals through the legal regulation of the production, supply and use of drugs.
Transform began as an independent campaign group called Transform Drugs Campaign Ltd, and was set up in 1996 by its former Head of External Affairs,
Danny Kushlick
Danny Kushlick is a British political activist and founder of the Transform Drug Policy Foundation (TDPF). He has appeared in British media on many occasions advocating for the decriminalisation of drugs. He stood in the 2010 United Kingdom gene ...
. The organisation achieved charitable status in 2003 and was renamed 'Transform Drug Policy Foundation' in 2004. In 2007, Transform became the first UK based
non-governmental organisation
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calling for drug law reform to be granted special consultative status at the
United Nations
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.
In 2012, Transform launched a Latin American programme of work in collaboration with the Mexico City-based NG