Drugs in the news
Seven of the world’s eight most violent countries lie on the bloody trafficking route from ...
-
Know Your Limit: Germany Seeks Uniform Law on Marijuana
-
Report calls for decriminalizing both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ drugs
-
Two-thirds of Dutch cannabis cafes still admit tourists
-
‘Club drug’ ketamine lifts depression in hours
-
OAS recommends decriminalization of drugs
-
How to Legalize Pot
-
Fate of LA pot shops left to voters
-
Breaking the taboo about drugs
-
OAS study eyes marijuana decriminalization
Newsletter
High Level Meeting on AIDS
Wednesday 11 June 2008
The 2008 High Level Meeting on AIDS opened on June 10 at the United Nations headquarters in New York under the theme 'Uniting the World Against AIDS'. Country delegations and civil society representatives from around the world meet to review progress towards the targets agreed in the UN's 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the 2006 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS.
>
Publications
While new psychoactive substances pose a challenge to existing drug control regimes, their appearance provides an opportunity to consider the trial of alternative policy and legislative approaches to drug control.
Tags
- 24 items are tagged with 10-year Review
- 6 items are tagged with 1998 UNGASS
- 7 items are tagged with 2005 CND debate
- 3 items are tagged with Afghanistan
- 33 items are tagged with alternative development
- 20 items are tagged with argentina
- 151 items are tagged with ballot 2012
- 91 items are tagged with bolivia
- 38 items are tagged with brazil
- 7 items are tagged with burma
- 94 items are tagged with california
- 77 items are tagged with canada
- 11 items are tagged with cannabinoids
- 640 items are tagged with cannabis
- 49 items are tagged with cannabis clubs
- 5 items are tagged with chile
- 26 items are tagged with civil society
- 58 items are tagged with CND
- 142 items are tagged with coca
- 88 items are tagged with coffee shop
- 41 items are tagged with colombia
- 83 items are tagged with colorado
- 9 items are tagged with compulsary detention
- 102 items are tagged with conventions
- 32 items are tagged with crack
- 14 items are tagged with czech republic
- 261 items are tagged with decriminalization
- 52 items are tagged with denmark
- 48 items are tagged with drug consumption rooms
- 8 items are tagged with drug courts
- 11 items are tagged with ecuador
- 1 items are tagged with el salvador
- 27 items are tagged with eradication
- 7 items are tagged with european drug policy
- 35 items are tagged with france
- 11 items are tagged with gateway theory
- 8 items are tagged with germany
- 31 items are tagged with global commission
- 20 items are tagged with guatemala
- 45 items are tagged with guatemala initiative
- 162 items are tagged with harm reduction
- 21 items are tagged with heroin assisted treatment
- 46 items are tagged with HIV/AIDS
- 81 items are tagged with human rights
- 18 items are tagged with incarceration
- 73 items are tagged with INCB
- 16 items are tagged with informal drug policy dialogues
- 5 items are tagged with israel
- 3 items are tagged with ketamine
- 21 items are tagged with khat
- 69 items are tagged with latin american debate
- 36 items are tagged with law enforcement
- 47 items are tagged with legal highs
- 337 items are tagged with legalization
- 151 items are tagged with medical marijuana
- 79 items are tagged with mexico
- 1 items are tagged with Mid-Term Review
- 12 items are tagged with mild stimulants
- 14 items are tagged with money laundering
- 2 items are tagged with morocco
- 99 items are tagged with netherlands
- 8 items are tagged with opium
- 7 items are tagged with oregon
- 1 items are tagged with overdose kits
- 1 items are tagged with paraguay
- 22 items are tagged with peru
- 7 items are tagged with police pacification
- 32 items are tagged with portugal
- 52 items are tagged with prison situation
- 7 items are tagged with producers
- 54 items are tagged with prohibition
- 60 items are tagged with proportionality
- 59 items are tagged with reclassification
- 25 items are tagged with recriminalisation
- 269 items are tagged with regulation
- 4 items are tagged with security
- 10 items are tagged with self-cultivation
- 33 items are tagged with sentencing
- 21 items are tagged with spain
- 21 items are tagged with substitution treatment
- 17 items are tagged with switzerland
- 10 items are tagged with thresholds
- 49 items are tagged with UK
- 202 items are tagged with UN drug control
- 55 items are tagged with UNGASS
- 48 items are tagged with UNODC
- 26 items are tagged with uruguay
- 441 items are tagged with US drug policy
- 4 items are tagged with venezuela
- 67 items are tagged with violence
- 8 items are tagged with WHO
- 10 items are tagged with world drug report
This website
Other projects
TNI Drug Law Reform Project
Drug Law Reform in Latin America is a project of the TNI Drugs & Democracy programme
"Promoting a more effective and humane drug policy in Latin America"
UN Drug Control
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.