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Newsnight

Season 2005 2005

  • 2005-01-12T22:30:00Z on BBC One
  • 1h
  • 1h (1 episode)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • News
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news programme and runs on BBC2 five nights a week. Its format, with a limited number of items covered in each show, allows an in-depth analytical approach to news stories, with a particular emphasis on political and economic affairs. The show largely eschews the "human-interest" stories favoured by many news programmes.

1 episode

2005-01-12T22:30:00Z

2005x03 12/01/2005

2005x03 12/01/2005

  • 2005-01-12T22:30:00Z1h

The IF series of drama-documentaries examines the existing problems with drug prohibition and hears the arguments in favor of legalization.

Based on rigorous research and interviews with experts, the programme hears the arguments for leaving the most dangerous drug of all - crack cocaine - illegal, and examines how a legal and regulated system of drugs would work.

The guests discussing the issues with Jeremy Paxman for the Newsnight debate were: * Danny Kushlick, director of Transform Drug Policy Foundation * Keith Hellawell, UK Drugs Czar 1998-2002 * Andrew Johns, forensic psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital * Emma Bonino MEP, former EU humanitarian affairs commissioner

director of Transform Drug Policy Foundation: Danny Kushlick
UK Drugs Czar 1998-2002: Keith Hellawell
forensic psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital: Andrew Johns
former EU humanitarian affairs commissioner: Emma Bonino MEP

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