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'Legal highs'	This paper aims to set out some of the policy and public health issues raised by the appearance of a wide range of emergent psychoactive substances of...
A Call to Shift Policy on Marijuana	More people are arrested in New York City on charges of possessing small amounts of marijuana than on any other crime on the books. Nearly all are b...
A Matter of Substance	This paper discusses the “substance-oriented approach” Dutch authorities implemented to to scare off potential small-scale cocaine smugglers. The fo...
Addicted to Courts	America’s growing reliance on drug courts is an ineffective allocation of scarce state resources. Drug courts can needlessly widen the net of crimin...
Alternatives to Imprisonment	The Sentencing Advisory Council has released a report on community attitudes towards the use of alternatives to imprisonment in Victoria. The report...
Bigger welfare state 'reduces hard drug use'	Reducing the use of drugs would be better tackled by having a bigger welfare state, rather than criminalising addicts, according to research. The wor...
Black people six times more likely to face drug arrest	Black people are six times more likely to be arrested than white people for drug offences and 11 times more likely to be imprisoned, according to ne...
Congress on Speed	If Congress were functioning properly, it would take the time to consider the many potential improvements in drug policy that could save lives by pr...
Controlling and Regulating Drugs	The New Zealand Law Commission was asked to address the efficacy of the Misuse of Drugs Act in reducing the demand for, and supply of, drugs prohibite...
Conviction by Numbers	Threshold quantities (TQs) for drug law and policy are being experimented with across many jurisdictions. States seem attracted to their apparent simp...
Drug Courts Are Not the Answer	Drug Courts are Not the Answer finds that drug courts are an ineffective and inappropriate response to drug law violations. Many, all the way up to ...
Drug Decriminalization: A Trend Takes Shape	The trend of "drug decriminalization" is quickly taking shape in Latin America. Increasingly, many countries are leaning toward decriminaliz...
Drug guidelines suggest lighter sentences for 'social dealers'	Recreational drug users who naively buy small quantities to share with their friends could avoid jail under sentencing guidelines for drug offences. T...
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 offences: sentencing and other outcomes	The sentences that offenders receive for drug law violations across the European Union are examined for the first time in this ‘Selected issue’. By an...
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...
Drug sentencing public consultation launched	A public consultation on the sentencing of drugs offenders in England and Wales has been launched. The consultation, launched by the Sentencing Counci...
Drugs and the law: state of confusion	Forty years after the introduction of the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act, more than 2.8 million people report using illicit drugs every year in England and ...
Drugs mule terms cut in new sentencing guidelines	People who smuggle drugs will face more lenient sentences if they have been exploited, under new guidelines. The change in approach on "drug mule...
Expert Seminar on Proportionality of Sentencing for Drug Offences	There has in recent years been a renewed interest in the principle of proportionality in sentencing policy for drug offences. There has been official ...
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