Brendan Hughes

Brendan Hughes (British) has been working at EMCDDA/EUDA since 2001 in the field of national drug legislation, after gaining a Masters degree in International Criminal Law (LLM) specialising in narcotics law. He has written various comparative overviews and analyses on different topics relevant to drug laws; not only use, possession and trafficking laws, but also issues such as drug classifications, threshold quantities, alternatives to punishment, drug driving, and procedures for classifying new substances as drugs. Brendan Hughes has advised various ministers and parliamentary committees and published several peer-reviewed articles, reports and book chapters. He is currently focussing on the different models and variations of cannabis regulation and control (recreational, medicinal, food, agricultural…), and is starting to look at human rights and gender equality aspects.