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| 'Legal highs' prevalence makes ban policy 'ridiculous' | New "legal highs" are being discovered at the rate of one a week, outstripping attempts to control their availability and exposing what so... |
| 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... |
| Dr. Evan Wood: There is nothing conservative about supporting marijuana prohibition | Imagine an extremely expensive government policy proven to be completely ineffective at achieving its stated objectives. Consider also that whenever ... |
| Drug laws 'may make matters worse' | Police efforts to fight drug gangs tend to lead to more violence and an increase in murders, according to a new international study. The authors, wri... |
| Drug laws and bans on legal highs 'do more harm than good' | The UK's "outdated" drug laws could be doing more harm than good and are failing to recognise that banning some "legal highs"... |
| Drug Lords Celebrate the Drug War at the UN! | When the United Nations adopted the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961, most people did not expect that 50 years later nobody will celebrat... |
| Drug War Anniversary a Time for Reflection and Action | Some anniversaries provide an occasion for celebration, others a time for reflection, still others a time for action. This June will mark forty year... |
| Drugs are a development issue - which is why we should legalise them | If there is a "war on drugs", this is it. Mexico is undergoing worse violence than has been seen in Latin America in decades. President Fe... |
| Elected Officials, VIPs and Grassroots Slam Drug War on 40th Anniversary | June 17 will mark forty years since President Richard Nixon, citing drug abuse as "public enemy No. 1," officially declared a "war ... |
| Ending the futile war on drugs | The war on drugs is a lost war, and 2011 is the time to move away from a punitive approach in order to pursue a new set of policies based on public he... |
| Fifty Years of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs: A Reinterpretation | This year marks the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, signed on 30 March 1961. 73 countries were represented... |
| Four Decades Later, It's Time to Scrap the Dead-End Drug War | I recently returned from the desert city of Durango, Mexico, where forensic officials are still trying to identify some 240 corpses discovered this ... |
| How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime | This contradicts one of the central tenets of the War on Drugs, which is that the psychopharmacological effects of drug use lead to criminal behavio... |
| How well do international drug conventions protect public health? | The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961 aimed to eliminate the illicit production and non-medical use of cannabis, cocaine, and opioids, an ... |
| It's time to end the phoney war on drugs | We are supposedly engaged in a "war on drugs." What war on drugs? A phoney war, because it provokes that which it proclaims to repress. Take... |
| Juan Manuel Santos: 'It is time to think again about the war on drugs' | Santos spelled out the radical ideas which he hopes will create a fresh approach. He said: "A new approach should try and take away the violent ... |
| Latin American statesmen question drugs war strategy | Three former Latin American presidents have declared the US-led “war on drugs” a failure and called for new strategies focusing on treatment to repl... |
| Mexico's Narco-Epiphany: Is Calderón Suggesting the U.S. Legalize Drugs? | The central statistic of Mexico's violent drug war – 40,000 gangland murders in the past five years – is repeated so often it almost fails to a... |
| More Calls For A Drug War Cease-Fire | Tomorrow marks the 79th anniversary of the beginning of the end of the U.S. prohibition on alcohol. On that day in 1932 John D. Rockefeller Jr., a v... |
| Nieuwe publicatie van het Transnational Institute raadt de regering af khat te verbieden | De engelstalige briefing Chewing over Khat Prohibition rekent af met de effectiviteit van een ban, zoals is gebleken uit andere Europese landen. Probl... |
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