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Dave Bewley-Taylor

September 24, 1968 - November 20, 2024

Dave was our dear friend and colleague. He left us much too soon. He was a colossal intellect. He was generous with his time and his guidance. He was a leading light in the global drug policy reform movement and inspired many others through his ideas, his advocacy and his academic enquiry. As a friend, Dave was fiercely loyal - always ready to fight your corner. He had an incredible sense of humour, sharp and witty, alway ready with a smile and a laugh. We will miss his candid joviality, his friendship, his guidance and the beautiful human being that he was. He left us on the 20th of November 2024 after a brave and stoic battle with cancer. He passed peacefully at home with his beloved family. Rest in power Dave

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2024-12-08 11:50:33 wrote:

Very sad and shocking news about Dave. When I was a very early career academic in 1989/1990 I first met Dave in a joyously out of my control seminar group - I remember that Dave, Penny O'Hara and Chris Jones and all the rest rarely agreed on anything! The time went really fast! Dave wrote an excellent essay on international drug trafficking and soon after we had our first chat about a dissertation on international drug control - appropriately at a point where cars could get passed each other on the way to the sea. He was driving down to this lovely surfing bay near Mumbles, not being a surfer I was driving away. I grumbled about the lack of a decent book on international drug control - in the next few years he wrote a great PhD and then The United States and International Drug Control still the best there is. He was, as everyone has written, a joy to be with and work with.

2024-12-08 11:50:33 wrote: Very sad and shocking news about Dave. When I was a very early career academic in 1989/1990 I first met Dave in a joyously out of my control seminar group - I remember that Dave, Penny O'Hara and Chris Jones and all the rest rarely agreed on anything! The time went really fast! Dave wrote an excellent essay on international drug trafficking and soon after we had our first chat about a dissertation on international drug control - appropriately at a point where cars could get passed each other on the way to the sea. He was driving down to this lovely surfing bay near Mumbles, not being a surfer I was driving away. I grumbled about the lack of a decent book on international drug control - in the next few years he wrote a great PhD and then The United States and International Drug Control still the best there is. He was, as everyone has written, a joy to be with and work with.

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