Steve Rolles

Transform's official side event on Monday at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna. 4.30-5.30 in Room M0E100

@SuellaBraverman @Telegraph Nothing strong about pandering to a vanglorious tyrants' illegal war. I applaud his strength in standing up to US pressure on this. For all this govt are getting wrong, criticising him on this is incredibly dangerous, ill-judged and opportunistic.

No-one wants war. But when diplomacy fails, nations need to choose: are we strong or are we weak? It would have been entirely lawful for the UK to choose strength but Starmer chose to be weak. My column in today’s @Telegraph 👇 Starmer’s vacillations on Iran have left Britain immeasurably weaker telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/0…

@learnaboutsam Appropriate and responsible regulation of marketing, age access and product potency can limit access and risk exposure of youth relative to a unregulated illegal market that relies on arbitrary criminalisation, and controlled by OCG profiteers.

Friday Fact: Teens who use weed face a more than twofold risk of psychotic disorders later in life thedrugreport.org/2026/02/27/fri…

@WestminsterWAG They call for a regulated & sustainable supply chain for coca and cocaine - specifically to put cartels out of business & for evidence based prevention & risk eduction in schools PLEASE READ THE POLICY DOCUMENTS YOU ARE COMMENTING ON BEFORE MISREPRENTING/LYING ABOUT THEM

@WestminsterWAG - Prostitution is legal in the UK - Green policy is expanded access to heroin assisted treatment on prescription - which is legal & has happened for 100 yrs - Green policy is research into similarly legal medical prescribing of cocaine - not legal crack sales 1/

Also... Legalise prostitution on your local high street. Legalise crack cocaine and heroin. Do deals with South American drug cartels to introduce a 'sustainable supply' of cocaine to Britain. Teach primary school children how to take class A drugs in schools. Give illegal immigrants automatic right to a house, free medical treatment and a 'living wage' (no requirement to work), at the expense of hard-working British taxpayers. Pretty bleak future.

@Nigel_Farage you lost. grow up

This election was a victory for sectarian voting and cheating. Matt Goodwin was a great candidate for us. Roll on the elections on May 7th. It will be goodbye Starmer and goodbye to the Tory party.

@UKLabour Maybe rethink your lying drug war bullshit next time

There's been a lot of talk about the Green Party's drug problem. Here's what they really think.

@SteveTransform They totally misjudged their position on drugs and showed how out of step the general political consensus is with his many of the public see it. 52% (?) want legal cannabis ..

Hey @Keir_Starmer, how'd your pathetic dishonest attacks on Greens' pragmatic public health-based drug policy work out for you in Manchester? 1/

Maybe it's the generational failure of the war on drugs, record drugs deaths, and lying politicians that disgust them? 3/

Maybe voters aren't quite as stupid and gullible as you think they are? Maybe they can see through your 'tough in drugs' posturing, are actually open to leadership and new ideas, and don't like childish propaganda? 2/

@learnaboutsam important to note they found no rise in multiple other states

Researchers from the London School of Economics found that the legalization of recreational marijuana increased traffic fatalities by 75% in Alaska. thedrugreport.org/2025/10/17/fri…

@grok @ns_graphy @UKLabour This is not correct - it calls for medical prescription of crack to be researched, and it calls for medical prescription of heroin to be extended to more people who could benefit from it. It does not call for legal retail sales of either drug.

You're right—diamorphine (heroin) prescribing for opioid dependence treatment has been legal in the UK since the 1920s under the British system, though strictly limited to a small number of patients today. Green Party policy, however, explicitly calls for legalising heroin, crack, and other Class A drugs for recreational use too, stating adults should be free to choose as limited use "is not harmful and has the potential to enhance human relationships and human creativity."

@grok @ns_graphy @UKLabour The green party policy advocates prescribing of heroin - whihc is already legal in the UK and already happens - and has done for almost 100 years. You don't need to legalise something that is already legal.

Yes, the UK Green Party's policy proposes legalizing GHB (plus heroin, crack, cocaine, MDMA, ketamine) for recreational use, per their documents reported by Daily Mail/Metro. No country fully legalizes all drugs. Portugal decriminalized personal possession of all in 2001: overdose deaths dropped ~80%, HIV from needles fell sharply, youth drug deaths down, usage rates stable/slightly up with better treatment access. Cannabis legalized in Canada (2018), Uruguay (2013): regulated sales, tax revenue up, black market reduced but youth use mixed/stable. Oregon decriminalized hard drugs 2020 but recriminalized 2024 due to fentanyl crisis. Outcomes favor health-focused approaches over prohibition.

@UKLabour this is one of the most pathetic things I've seen in a long time. Even for you this is some dismal dishonest playground bullshit. Hang your heads in shame.

I've mostly moved posting to linkedin linkedin.com/in/steve-rolle… tho not optimistic that platform's wont also be irredeemably enshitified Im leaving my x online as its a useful 15yr legacy/reference (at least for me), & on the small chance twitter is rehabilitated.

Ive pretty much abandoned Twitter/x because: - it has been spectacularly enshittified since 2022, and and - the intersecting problem of intolerably toxic/racist views of the CEO and related algorithmic/blue tick incentives 1.

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.

@KeithNHumphreys would you have supported it if dealing/public use remained sanctionable?

@IanYorston @TheAtlantic @KeithNHumphreys Banerjee, Abhijit, and Sendhil Mullainathan. 2010. “The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor”. Cambridge, MA.

The writing in @TheAtlantic is always first-rate Here, on implementing a #SocialMedia ban for #Teenagers I particularly appreciated the compound noun ‘temptation goods’ HT @KeithNHumphreys et al theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…