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The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (CEDD) [01-01-20]   The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) brings together researchers from seven Latin American c...
The Next Step in Drug Treatment [26-04-13] The mandatory-sentencing craze that drove up the prison population tenfold, pushing state corrections costs to bankrupting levels, was rooted in New Y...
Addicted to punishment [09-04-13] Over the past several decades, Latin America has seen penalties for drug crimes—even low-level selling—skyrocket. And in many Latin American ...
Duped by dope [21-03-13] Germany's law-enforcement and legal apparatus devotes enormous resources to fighting illegal narcotics. But users are always a step ahead, and la...
French court rejects sick man's cannabis plea [13-03-13] A French man suffering from a muscular disease since childhood had his request to be given the right to use cannabis for medicinal reasons rejected by...
Warren: Drug possession warrants jail time but laundering cartel money doesn’t? [07-03-13] Appearing at a Senate Banking Committee hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) grilled officials from the Treasury Department over why criminal charges...
The unintended negative consequences of the 'war on drugs' [01-03-13] Criminalisation of drug users, excessive levels of imprisonment, and punitive sentencing practices, including mandatory sentencing, the death penalty ...
Addicted to punishment [01-01-13] In Latin America, trafficking cocaine so it can be sold to someone who wants to use it is more serious than raping a woman or deliberately killing you...
Nick Clegg and David Cameron clash over drug law reforms [14-12-12] Divisions between David Cameron and Nick Clegg over Britain's "war on drugs" emerged on Friday after the Liberal Democrat leader said t...
Drug sentences now make more sense [20-11-12] The underlying aim of The Sentencing Council's new guideline for drug offences in England and Wales is to ensure sentences are consistent and the...
Will Obama's second term see an end to the failed 'war on drugs'? [16-11-12] One of the more surprising results of last week's election was the decision by voters in Colorado and Washington state to legalize marijuana for ...
Disproportionate penalties for drug offenses in Mexico [12-11-12] The story of the Mexican drug war has generally focused on the violence perpetrated by drug cartels and the apparent inability to bring so many cri...
Victims of the Latin American war on drugs make the case for reform [10-11-12] Latin American drug policies have made no dent in the drug trade; instead they have taken a tremendous toll on human lives. In 2009, the Washington Of...
Bogotá’s medical care centres for drug addicts (CAMAD) [01-11-12] In September 2012, the mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, launched the first centre for drug addicts in the Bronx, a marginalised city-centre neighbourho...
Amidst deep concern for Thailand's drug policies, some space for open debate [28-09-12] On 17th September, 2012, IDPC together with the Transnational Institute (TNI) held a high-level seminar in Bangkok co-hosted with the Thai Ministry of...
Drugs and Prisons in Uruguay [17-07-12] In Uruguay, the consumption of drugs, including marijuana, is not punishable with prison time. Even so, the cultivation of marijuana for personal co...
Brazil Launches Campaign to Decriminalise Drug Use [12-07-12] A host of academic, legal, health, political and social figures are joining together to back a campaign to decriminalise drug use in Brazil, as tens o...
Life Without Parole for Pot? [27-06-12] The United States government spends more than $7 billion annually to enforce marijuana prohibition in shockingly cruel ways, but the efforts have not...
Drugs, crime and punishment [19-06-12] Proportionality is one of the key principles of the rule of law aiming to protect people from cruel or inhumane treatment. The principle has been esta...
Former Supreme Court justice blasts minimum sentences for marijuana offenders [15-05-12] Canada’s new mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders are based on “very bad criminal law policy” and constitute a threat to ...
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Study: The ‘gateway drug’ is alcohol, not marijuana

A study in the August edition of The Journal of School Health finds that the generations old theory of a “gateway drug” effect is in fact accurate for some drug users, but shifts the blame for those addicts’ escalating substance abuse away from marijuana and onto the most pervasive and socially accepted drug in American life: alcohol.

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