Ash Blackwell talks about the past few weeks in news on drug policy and science from across Australia and around the world.SEGMENTPsychedelic Research In Science and Medicine (PRISM) President Martin Williams spoke at the Melbourne Australian Psychedelic Society (APS) Mushroom day in 2018 at Sooki Lounge in BelgraveINTERVIEWPenny Hill (Australian youth civil society representative at the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs sessions in Vienna, Austria) joins the program to discuss recent meetings at the UNODC and international moves to a different approach for drug policy, which are also challenged by a prohibitionist approach seeking further international punitive controls.