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Possession of cannabis for personal use [01-01-20] The legal status of cannabis for personal use is one of the most controversial policy issues in the European Union. Although cannabis is a classifie...
Drug policy must return to focus on public health, SPP panelists say [12-04-13] Global drug policy must move away from stigmatizing and criminalizing users and focus on the public health issues at stake, panelists concluded at the...
De wankele 'Weense consensus' over drugsbeleid [01-04-13] Nederland is met zijn drugsbeleid in de achterhoede terecht gekomen, zo stelt Martin Jelsma. Zo zijn Uruguay en de Amerikaanse staten Washington e...
Life after cannabis prohibition: The city announces its ambitions [15-03-13] The tide is turning against the criminalisation of cannabis. Copenhagen wants to join the movement with a three-year trial to decriminalise the drug. ...
Cannabis and the 1961 Convention [12-03-13] Over the past years, there have been some soft and hard defections on cannabis control. It is now time to discuss alternatives that are based on fac...
Ex-DEA heads, U.N. panel urge feds to nullify Wash., Colo. pot laws [05-03-13] Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs warned the federal government that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's n...
Guatemala proposes "alternative strategies for combating drugs" [25-02-13] The Secretary General of the OAS highlighted the assignment received during the Sixth Summit of the Americas in 2012, which urged the OAS to analyze t...
The great experiment [23-02-13] A whiff of change is in the air regarding drug control policy. Officials in two American states, Colorado and Washington, are pondering how to impleme...
Towards a ceasefire [23-02-13] Partial reforms have their limits. Most drug crime is not cannabis-related. Moving from punishment to harm reduction may help drug users, but it leave...
Coca and Snus: Sweden's self-defeating hypocrisy on drugs [15-01-13] Tradition is disposable. Evidence is marginal. Economic arguments are not important. This, in a nutshell, is what Sweden said to the UN to oppose trad...
Major victory for President Morales: UN accepts “coca leaf chewing” in Bolivia [14-01-13] Bolivia will again belong to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs after its bid to rejoin with a reservation that it does not accept the treat...
Bolivians demand the right to chew coca leaves [13-01-13] A major international row with wide-ranging implications for global drugs policy has erupted over the right of Bolivia's indigenous Indian tribes...
The condemned coca leaf [13-01-13] Last week, the United Nations voted on an appeal by Bolivia to amend the international treaty that prohibits the chewing of coca leaf. Bolivia won a p...
Schijnheilig bezwaar van Nederland tegen het kauwen van coca bladeren [11-01-13] De Nederlandse regering heeft bij de Verenigde Naties bezwaar aangetekend tegen de herintreding van Bolivia in het Enkelvoudig Verdrag inzake verdoven...
Bolivia wins a rightful victory on the coca leaf [11-01-13] Today the Plurinational State of Bolivia can celebrate a rightful victory, as the country can become formally a party again to the 1961 Single Convent...
Partial, symbolic victory for Bolivia in battle to legalize coca leaf [11-01-13] Evo Morales’ global crusade to decriminalize the coca leaf, launched in 2006 after the coca growers’ union leader was first elected president of Boli...
To look tough on drugs, and please the US, the UK is willing to trample on indigenous rights [06-01-13] The UK says in its objection to Bolivia's reaccession to the 1961 UN Single Convention with a reservation that allows for the traditional chewing...
Objections to Bolivia's reservation to allow coca chewing in the UN conventions [04-01-13] Sweden joined the United States and the United Kingdom in objecting to the re-accession of Bolivia to the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs ...
Roadmaps for Reforming the UN Drug Conventions [31-12-12] The three UN Drug Conventions of 1961, 1971 and 1988 currently impose a ‘one-size-fits-all’ prohibitionist approach to drug policy throughout the wo...
INCB President voices concern [15-11-12] The President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, has voiced grave concern about the outcome of recent referenda in the...
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