Historian Virginia Berridge has recently completed her term as a deputy chair of the London Drugs Commission, which published its report, 'The Cannabis Conundrum', in May of this year. Established by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, the commission investigated the implications of the non-medical use of cannabis in the capital and the impact of the current laws which govern it. Virginia brought a historian's perspective to an investigation otherwise dominated by legal specialists. To be a hist...
