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'This Debate Will No Longer be Suppressed'	Latin American leaders are increasingly speaking out against prohibition. And public opinion in America, especially when it comes to legalizing pot, i...
'War on drugs' has failed, say Latin American leaders	A historic meeting of Latin America's leaders, to be attended by Barack Obama, will hear serving heads of state admit that the war on drugs has b...
5 Years After: Portugal's Drug Decriminalization Policy Shows Positive Results	In the face of a growing number of deaths and cases of HIV linked to drug abuse, the Portuguese government in 2001 tried a new tack to get a handle o...
A resounding success or a disastrous failure	Two observers and scholars of the 2001 Portuguese drug policy reform consider divergent accounts of the reform which viewed it as a ‘resounding succes...
A sensible approach to marijuana legalization that protects young people	The marijuana-legalization debate can too quickly become polarized. Guest columnist Roger Roffman argues that both sides need to tone down the rheto...
All parties must see that the drugs war has failed	It is clearly expecting too much of Westminster that, when a recently retired cabinet minister calls for mature debate on drugs policy, a mature debat...
Argentina	Overview of drug laws and legislative trends in Argentina Trend On August 25, 2009, the Supreme Court of Argentina unanimously declared unconstituti...
Argentina and Mexico clash with the INCB	The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna in March 2010 was a rather uneventful event. One of the most controversial issues were the comments...
Argentina: Reform on the way?	In August 2009, the Argentina Supreme Court declared as unconstitutional legislation that criminalized drug possession for personal consumption. This ...
Argentina’s Supreme Court Rules Sanctions for the Possession of Marijuana Unconstitutional	The Argentine Supreme court ruling that declares unconstitutional the imposition of criminal sanctions for the possession of small quantities of marij...
Argentina’s supreme court “Arriola” ruling on the possession of drugs for personal consumption	Intercambios Asociación Civil applauds the attempt of the Supreme Court Judges to distance the criminal law from drug users, but warns that attention ...
At 10, Portugal's Drug Law Draws New Scrutiny	Portugal's move to decriminalize illicit substances—Europe's most liberal drug legislation—turns 10 years old this month amid new scrutiny ...
At summit, drug talk likely to be hot but hidden	As the hemisphere’s leaders gather in Colombia this week for the VI Summit of the Americas, their on-camera discussions will be dominated by perennial...
Attorney tells more Colorado medical pot centers to close	Colorado's top federal prosecutor has ordered 25 medical marijuana shops located near schools to close in an escalating pot clampdown, as the sta...
Berlin Set to Relax Cannabis Laws	A new marijuana policy could make it legal for individuals to posses up to 15 grams (0.5 ounces) of the drug in the German capital. The regulation w...
Beyond Punitive Prohibition	The primary objective of this paper is to evaluate whether the drug conventions permit states to experiment with alternatives to the punitive prohibit...
Bid to have pot smokers fined not prosecuted	Parliament has launched a new attempt to decriminalise the consumption of cannabis, four years after voters rejected a proposal for the full legalisat...
Calif. to vote on legalizing marijuana	For those who have long argued that smoking marijuana should not be a crime, a potentially historic turning point is just weeks away. Voters in Cali...
California medical marijuana growers face pressure	A new Obama administration memo approves federal prosecution of anyone in the business of growing or supplying marijuana for medical patients even if...
California's Coming Crackdown on Pot: What Do You Do if You Need It?	Four California-based U.S. attorneys have announced their intent to prosecute the medical-marijuana dispensaries, growers and delivery services that...
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