She acknowledges the progress made by reducing brutal mandatory sentencing and zero - tolerance interpretations of the law but believes we have further to go
by increasing research funding and expanding treatment programs.
Leech, director of the Biomolecular Electronics Research Laboratory, at the National University of Ireland, Galway, added: «Even if, as claimed, this
budget increases research funding, this does not bring us back to 2008 levels.»
In March, Bitcoin Magazine reported that the U.K. government would launch a new research initiative to bring together the Research Councils, Alan Turing Institute and Digital Catapult with industry in order to address the research opportunities and challenges for digital currency technology and
increase research funding in this area by # 10 million (U.S. $ 14.6 million).