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It's time to transform the global war on drugs [25-04-12] At the recent Summit of the Americas, Latin America's leaders pressed Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama to study al...
Time for a truce in the war against drugs? [19-03-12] Arguing that a drug-free society is unattainable, a commission of global figures – including former Swiss minister Ruth Dreifuss – are promoting a r...
Stephen Harper repeating same old mistakes with tougher pot laws, global group says [01-03-12] The Global Commission on Drug Policy says it’s “very weird” that Canada is taking a tougher line on marijuana when governments across the globe are re...
It’s time to end the failed war on drugs [23-01-12] After 50 years of the failed drug war, it is time for today’s leaders to find the courage to speak out. For all the successes I’ve had in busine...
Counting the Costs of Archaic Drug Policies and Strategies in Southern Africa [27-09-11] In June 2011, fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and forty years after former US President Nixon launche...
Former Mexican president urges legalizing drugs [27-07-11] Part of the solution to end drug violence in Mexico should include legalizing drugs like marijuana for personal use, according to former President V...
"The war against drugs has failed" [20-07-11] The report, written by a high-profile panel including former Swiss cabinet minister Ruth Dreifuss, criticises the repressive approach in the US and...
The Way Forward [30-06-11] Since time immemorial, Mexicans have argued that were it not for U.S. demand for illicit substances, Mexico would have a manageable drug problem. Mo...
Breaking the Taboo: A Global Drug War Film [24-06-11] "If you can't control drugs in a maximum security prison, then how can you control drugs in a free society?" Those are my words that c...
4 Hopeful Signs in the Fight Against Disastrous Drug War, Including a New Bill to End Federal Pot Prohibition [23-06-11] It's been forty years since President Nixon declared a "war on drugs." And we're not winning. In local communities, Black and Lati...
The Drug War Must End: More Evidence from Thailand [21-06-11] Only weeks after the Global Commission on Drug Policy called for the end of the drug war, new video testimony from Thailand reinforces why this is a n...
Fear and loathing surrounds decriminalisation [18-06-11] "The war on drugs has failed," said a recent report compiled by the Global Commission on Drug Policy,which compriseda former UN secretary...
Four Decades Later, It's Time to Scrap the Dead-End Drug War [17-06-11] I recently returned from the desert city of Durango, Mexico, where forensic officials are still trying to identify some 240 corpses discovered this ...
Call Off the Global Drug War [17-06-11] In an extraordinary new initiative announced earlier this month, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has made some courageous and profoundly importa...
A Real Debate About Drug Policy [11-06-11] We believe that drug addiction is harmful to individuals, impairs health and has adverse societal effects. So we want an effective program to deal w...
The Global Commission: breaking the Vienna Consensus [07-06-11] TNI has been closely involved with the Global Commission on Drug Policy which presented its report in New York on June 2. Some years ago we published ...
More Calls For A Drug War Cease-Fire [06-06-11] Tomorrow marks the 79th anniversary of the beginning of the end of the U.S. prohibition on alcohol. On that day in 1932 John D. Rockefeller Jr., a v...
The war on drugs war is lost. Now it's time for a rational response [05-06-11] The tone of debate in Britain serves only to highlight the immaturity of our public discourse, with too many politicians lost in the fog of this foo...
The Saturday interview: Richard Branson [04-06-11] "I've seen the war on drugs and I've not been impressed," says Branson. "Thousands of people are being killed in Mexico becau...
Global reformers say it's time for change on drugs [04-06-11] Forty years after United States President Richard Nixon launched his War on Drugs, a conflict that far eclipses the War on Terror, the struggle to c...
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Where strict bans on khat have been introduced they have had severe unintended negative consequences and failed to further the integration, social incusion and economic prosperity of Somali communities in particular, which chew khat most widely.

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In 2011 the 1961 UN Single Convention on drugs will be in place for 50 years. In 2012 the international drug control system will exist 100 years since the International Opium Convention was signed in 1912 in The Hague. Does it still serve its purpose or is a reform of the UN Drug Conventions needed? This site provides critical background.