Regulation

Infographic: How will Uruguay's regulation of cannabis work?

2013-12-10T17:36:19+00:00

On December 10, 2013, the General Assembly of Uruguay approved a law that made the country the first one in the world to fully regulate the cultivation, trade and consumption of cannabis for medical, ...

Infographic: Why is Uruguay regulating; not criminalising cannabis?

2013-12-10T16:13:01+00:00

"The approval of regulation under state control in Uruguay marks a tipping point in the failed war against drugs. The trend is becoming irreversible: the era of a globally enforced cannabis prohibiti ...

New Zealand’s psychoactive substances legislation

2013-10-09T13:55:54+00:00

On 11 July 2013, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Psychoactive Substances Act. The legislation enacted a new legal framework for the testing, manufacture, sale, and regulation of psychoactive pr ...

Breaking the Silence

2011-10-28T12:45:53+00:00

This brief report outlines the links between cannabis prohibition in British Columbia (Canada) and the growth of organized crime and related violence in the province, and is the first report of a coa ...

Taking Drugs Seriously

2011-05-17T10:07:47+00:00

Since first coming to public prominence at the end of 2009, legal highs have posed a major challenge to existing legal and legislative structures designed to deal with drugs. With the market in manuf ...

Controlling and Regulating Drugs

2011-05-03T09:21:23+00:00

The New Zealand Law Commission was asked to address the efficacy of the Misuse of Drugs Act in reducing the demand for, and supply of, drugs prohibited under the International Drug Conventions. The C ...

Options for regulating new psychoactive drugs

2011-10-21T12:57:05+00:00

This paper is intended to provide the basis for a discussion of policy options in dealing with new psychoactive substances that show signs of popularity and of harmfulness within a wider project bein ...

Cannabis social clubs in Spain

2011-01-24T09:36:47+00:00

Cannabis social clubs (CSC) are noncommercial organisations of users who get together to cultivate and distribute enough cannabis to meet their personal needs without having to turn to the black mark ...

Non-residents in the Netherlands and access to coffee-shops

2011-01-21T15:20:01+00:00

Under the 1976 Law on opium (Opiumwet 1976), the possession, dealing, cultivation, transportation, production, import and export of narcotic drugs, including cannabis and its derivatives, are prohibi ...

All Eyes on California

2010-11-01T13:52:11+00:00

Registered voters in California will be the ones voting next Tuesday on whether to legalize marijuana under state law. But the ballot initiative in question – Proposition 19 – has sparked debate far ...

An economic perspective on the legalisation debate: the Dutch case

2012-02-09T16:30:28+00:00

Understanding the consequences of drug legalisation versus prohibition is important for policy. Most recently this subject has gained much political attention not only globally, but specifically in t ...

Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico

2010-10-13T10:45:37+00:00

The United States’ demand for illicit drugs creates markets for Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) and helps foster violence in Mexico. Some government and media sources have reported that ...

US Federal Government Data on Cannabis Prohibition

2010-10-08T10:22:25+00:00

The report reviews 20 years of data from US government funded surveillance systems on government drug control spending, cannabis seizures and cannabis arrests, in order to assess the impact of enforc ...

The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition

2010-09-29T12:44:00+00:00

The CATO report estimates that legalizing drugs would save roughly $41.3 billion per year in government expenditure on enforcement of prohibition. Of these savings, $25.7 billion would accrue to stat ...

Cannabis in Mexico

2010-08-27T15:08:02+00:00

In August 2010, Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared that he would support a national debate on the issue of legalisation, reversing his previous stance on the subject. However, he underscored ...

An alternative to the war on drugs

2010-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

Stephen Rolles argues that we need to end the criminalisation of drugs and set up regulatory models that will control drug markets and reduce the harms caused by current policy. Non-medical drug mark ...

Altered State?

2010-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

To learn more about the possible outcomes of marijuana legalization in California, RAND researchers constructed a model based on a series of estimates of current consumption, current and future price ...

Blueprint for Regulation

2010-09-29T15:37:09+00:00

There is a growing recognition around the world that the prohibition of drugs is a counterproductive failure. However, a major barrier to drug law reform has been a widespread fear of the unknown—jus ...

Illicit drugs policy through the lens of regulation

2010-11-03T10:59:08+00:00

The application of regulatory theory to the problem of illicit drugs has generally been thought about only in terms of ‘command and control’. The international treaties governing global illicit drug ...

Legal Responses to New Psychoactive Substances in Europe

2011-10-21T13:17:20+00:00

This paper starts from the premise that, when a new psychoactive substance appears on the licit/illicit market in a country in Europe, legislators need to choose whether to bring it under control of ...