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Latin American Report Stimulates New Dialogue on the Drug Problem in the Americas

May 20, 2013 Global Policy News

On Friday, the Organisation of American States (OAS) held a ceremony for the release of their report “The Drug Problem in the Americas.” Beckley Foundation Director Amanda Feilding attended the event, which debuted the OAS’s intricate analysis of the drug situation in Latin America.

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Legal Highs – the Online Drug Revolution

May 15, 2013 Legal Highs

Legal highs, technically known as New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), have undoubtedly captured the media’s attention in recent years. Mike Power’s book, Drugs 2.0, explores the illegal drug trade in Britain and the rapidly expanding online market in legal highs.

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Jeremy Browne Embarks Upon Drugs Policy Tour

May 14, 2013 Drug Legalisation

The Minister of State for Crime Prevention, Jeremy Browne, has travelled to various countries to look at alternatives to our own regulatory framework. The Home Office remains resolute in its claim that current policies are working, but purport to believe in adapting strategy based on evidence and promise to he keeping an open mind.

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Obama Talks Economic Stability in Central America

May 13, 2013 Global Policy News

US President Barack Obama recently toured across Central America, meeting Heads of State and discussing security and economic development in the region. He met with the Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto and President Chinchilla of Costa Rica, among others. The aim was to promote a broader role for economic development in reducing organised crime across the region, with a reduced focus on militaristic intervention.

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Amanda Feilding’s introductory address at Psychedelic Science 2013

May 4, 2013 Beckley in the Media

Read Amanda Feilding’s introductory address at the Psychedelic Science Conference 2013, held in Oakland California on 18-22 April. The conference was co-hosted by the Beckley Foundation, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Heffter, and the Council for Spiritual Practices.

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Amanda Feilding’s speaks at Psychedelic Science 2013

May 1, 2013 Beckley in the Media

Read Amanda Feilding’s talk at the Psychedelic Science Conference 2013, held in Oakland California on 18-22 April. The conference was co-hosted by the Beckley Foundation, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Heffter, and the Council for Spiritual Practices.

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The Global Drug Survey: Results for 2013

May 1, 2013 Research

The Global Drug Survey aims to assess people’s drug taking habits and how these habits affect their lives by providing an anonymous survey for users. The results of the second Global Drug Survey, launched in 2012 and taken by a record 22,000 people in its 4 week run, were published this month in the music publication mixmag

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Psychedelic Science Conference 2013

April 26, 2013 Beckley in the Media

The Psychedelic Science conference, co-hosted by the Beckley Foundation, brought together researchers from around the world to discuss research, clinical trials, and medical discoveries involving psychedelic substances. Amanda Feilding presented the results of the Beckley Foundation research programme, including our recent investigations into psilocybin and MDMA.

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US National Drug Control Strategy 2013: New message, same policies

April 26, 2013 Global Policy News

The new US National Drug Strategy was released this week. Despite some positive steps in evidence-based and science-driven approaches to addiction, the Stategy still places the most emphasis on enforcement, and fails to differentiate between drug use and drug addiction. Furthermore, it neglects cannabis reform developments domestically, and the calls for a new non-prohibitionist approach internationally.

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British press misrepresents research on cannabis liberalisation experiments

April 25, 2013 Cannabis

Earlier this month the press reported that the downgrade in cannabis (from B to C) in 2004 and the Lambeth depenalisation experiment had both been found to result in increased cannabis use and crime. However, the data these claims were based upon does not support this conclusion – provoking one of the authors to write a public letter of complaint about the misrepresentation of his research.

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