10/02/2012 See original article here at Transform A remarkable and almost unreported event took place at the beginning of December last year at the somewhat obscure, 13th summit of the Tuxtla Mechanism for Dialogue. (See here For more on the Mechanism.) It was reported in El Universal on 6 Dec ‘Frenar consumo de droga o regularlo, exigen paises [...]
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The Beckley Foundation warmly welcomed the Select Committee’s inquiry into drug policy and its invitation to present submissions. Improving drug policy is one of the key policy challenges of our time. The inquiry commenced on 24th January 2012 & began with oral evidence from Sir Richard Branson and Ruth Dreifuss, former President of Switzerland, both [...]
TNI Series on Legislative Reform of Drug Policies Nr. 17 January 2012 By Axel Klein, Pien Metaal and Martin Jelsma Khat has been consumed for hundreds if not thousands of years in the highlands of Eastern Africa and Southern Arabia. Outside that area, khat use was first observed during the 1980s, but has only attracted [...]
Khat has been consumed for hundreds if not thousands of years in the highlands of Eastern Africa and Southern Arabia. Outside that area, khat use was first observed during the 1980s, but has only attracted wider attention in recent years. Where khat has been studied extensively, namely Australia, the UK and until recently the Netherlands, [...]
23/11/2011 The British Neuroscience Association’s President Professor David Nutt will deliver the Monica Fooks Memorial Lecture entitled “How can we get the media to tell the truth about drugs?” on Wednesday, 23 November 2011. When: 23rd November 2011 Where: University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford Description The venue is the University Museum of [...]
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has pledged to “clean up the mess” of the War on Drugs within 6 months if he becomes President of Mexico. Lopez Obrador argues that soldiers should be sent back to their barracks and replaced by social workers and jobs. “You can’t fight violence with violence,” he said on national radio [...]
Policies and responses must be fit to face the challenges of the next decade, says drugs agency chief Press release from the EMCDDA website The Annual report 2011: the state of the drugs problem in Europe is ‘one of contrasts’, says the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA). Launched yesterday in Lisbon, the report shows drug use [...]
Mexico’s military and police have committed widespread human rights violations in efforts to combat organized crime, virtually none of which are being adequately investigated, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 212-page report “Neither Rights Nor Security: Killings, Torture, and Disappearances in Mexico’s ‘War on Drugs,’” examines the human rights consequences of [...]
On Tuesday 25th October 2011 the UK Drug Policy Commission (UKDPC) issued a statement welcoming proposals from the government’s official drugs advisory body for a new approach to tackling ‘legal highs’. The UKDPC expressed support of the idea of controlling new drugs using consumer protection legislation, but warned against using analogue legislation. In a report [...]
A new report from Harm Reduction International, ‘Inflicting Harm’, has been released today. The report focuses on the thousands of cases of drug and alcohol users subjected to judicially sanctioned corporal punishment every year. The press release is copied below: Thousands caned, whipped, lashed or flogged each year for drug and alcohol offences, says new [...]
