The Beckley Foundation is a charitable trust that promotes the scientific investigation of consciousness and its modulation from a multidisciplinary perspective. We also seek to change global drugs policy to reflect a more rational, evidence-based approach, shifting the emphasis from criminalisation to health.
‘Drugs cartels used HSBC to launder cash’ By Stephen Foley May 2012 HSBC is facing potentially explosive allegations that South American drug cartels have used it to launder money, and that the bank systematically and deliberately failed to install the systems needed to catch illegal transactions. The scale of US authorities’ investigations into HSBC has [...]
May 7 2012 By Thom Shanker The New York Times FORWARD OPERATING BASE MOCORON, Honduras — The United States military has brought lessons from the past decade of conflict to the drug war being fought in the wilderness of Miskito Indian country, constructing this remote base camp with little public notice but with the support [...]
More and more harm reduction projects are preparing for the possibility of having to shut down because of the uncertainty on the future Portugal is increasingly suffering from the austerity measures applied to all services provided by the State. Social protection is being reduced across the board, affecting vulnerable populations like drug users the most. [...]
Legislation will mirror drink driving crime after police supplied with devices allowing them to test drivers for drugs Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent The Guardian, Monday 7 May 2012 Drivers found to have taken drugs face a prison sentence of up to six months and a fine of up to £5,000 under new legislation, ministers reveal on Monday. Plans [...]
original text 30 April 2012 Police discovered more than 20 cannabis farms and factories in the UK every day last year, seizing drugs worth up to £100 million, figures showed on Monday. Criminals were attempting to reduce risk and minimise potential losses by employing a large number of so-called “gardeners” to manage smaller farms across [...]
original article THE HAGUE (AFP) 1 May 2012 Keen to stub out an era of dope tourism, the Netherlands on Tuesday starts restricting cannabis sales in the country’s south to residents only, despite opposition from pro-pot lobby groups. Famous for decades for its laid-back attitude to marijuana, the Netherlands will now require so-called coffee shops [...]
Click here for original article The Obama administration’s top drug policy official said Tuesday that although the government continues antidrug efforts on the Southwest border, “we cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem.” National Drug Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske said that it’s time to “treat drug addiction as a disease.” The administration’s strategy seeks a [...]
The Hungarian Government failed to provide adequate legislative response to the Venice Commission’s criticism on judicial reform. 2 May, 2012 – 13:09 In March 2012 the Venice Commission issued an opinion regarding the new Hungarian cardinal laws on the court system and the judiciary, stating that “the reform as a whole threatens the independence of the [...]
Australian Professional Sport Attempts to Remove Marijuana from performance- enhancing substance list Caroline Wilson 02 May 2012 Click here for original article ANYONE who followed the great AFL drug war of 2005 would understand the significance of yesterday’s revelation that Australian professional sport has united in a bid to remove marijuana from the world banned list of performance-enhancing substances. [...]
Unanimous vote towards health-based strategy for dealing with the popular recreational drug Vancouver city council is calling for an end to the prohibition on marijuana. They are supporting the Stop the Violence campaign, calling for the adoption of a health-based strategy for dealing with the popular recreational drug. The vote in favour of the motion [...]
