Mark Oates, Fellow

Mark Oates is the Director of We Vape and the Snus Users Association. He has a keen interest in legalising anything from safe standing in football stadiums to recreational cannabis. He advocates evidence-based harm reduction in a range of areas from tobacco to drug policy, a subject he has written on for the Institute of Economic Affairs. He also provided evidence in the 2018 ECJ case to overturn the ban of snus across the European Union and worked on the successful 2018 campaign to legalise medical cannabis in the UK. He has personally circumvented planning regulations by building and living on a boat.