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| Abolishing Coca Leaf Consumption? | The Transnational Institute condemns the decision by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in their 2007 annual report released today, whic... |
| Aide-Memoire on the Bolivian Proposal To Amend Article 49 of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs | In 2009, the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma, sent a letter to the General Secretary of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, in which the Governmen... |
| Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin' says Prof David Nutt | Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack, according to a study published in medical journal the Lancet. The report is co-authored by Professor Dav... |
| Amendment against anti-coca chewing provisions | In March 2009, Evo Morales sent his formal request to the Secretary General Bang Ki Moon to delete articles 49(c) and 49(e) of the 1961 UN Single Conv... |
| Bolivia’s Morales wants UN to lift ban on chewing coca leaves in 2012 | Bolivian President Evo Morales believes that in 2012 the United Nations will finally agree that chewing of coca leaves is a legal ancient tradition ... |
| Cannabis: Classification and Public Health | The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs reviewed the classification of cannabis in the light of real public concern about the potential mental hea... |
| Chewing over Khat prohibition | In the context of a fast changing and well documented market in legal highs, the case of khat (Catha edulis) provides an interesting anomaly. It is fi... |
| Coca chewing out of the UN convention? | This briefing offers some background on the issue to amend the UN Single Convention towards a more coherent and realistic stance on the ancient tradit... |
| Coca leaf: Myths and Reality | Many myths surround coca. Every day press accounts around the world use the word coca in their headlines, when they refer in fact to cocaine. TNI'... |
| Colorado seeks new pot classification | Colorado has become the third state to ask the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify marijuana in a way that allows doctors to prescribe ... |
| Cuts prompt police to call for debate on drugs and redirect resources | One of Britain's most senior police officers has said youngsters caught carrying personal amounts of drugs such as cannabis should "not be c... |
| David Nutt: 'The government cannot think logically about drugs' | If someone were to invent a perfectly safe ecstasy pill, what would be done about it? It's the sort of scenario clubbers like to speculate about,... |
| Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse | Drug misuse and abuse are major health problems. Harmful drugs are regulated according to classification systems that purport to relate to the harms a... |
| Development of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971 | The 196l Single Convention did not include so-called "psychotropic substances" such as amphetamines and barbiturates among the drugs control... |
| Drug harms in the UK | To provide better guidance to policy makers in health, policing, and social care, the harms that drugs cause need to be properly assessed. This task ... |
| Drug Law Reform: Lessons from the New Zealand Experience | In 2007, the Government of New Zealand entrusted an independent agency, the National Law Commission, to review the country’s drug law. The Commission ... |
| Drug Policy Reform in Practice | The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with th... |
| Ecstasy does not wreck the mind, study claims | There is no evidence that ecstasy causes brain damage, according to one of the largest studies into the effects of the drug. Too many previous studi... |
| Estimating drug harms: a risky business? | No one is suggesting that drugs are not harmful. The critical question is one of scale and degree. We need a full and open discussion of the evidence ... |
| Global Commission on Drug Policy Report | The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of ... |
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