Tag: inter se modification
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The UN Drug Control Conventions
Tuesday, 31 December 2019
For more than ten years, TNI’s Drugs & Democracy programme has been studying the UN drug control conventions and the institutional architecture of the UN drug control regime. As we approach the 2016 ...
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Regulating Drugs: Resolving Conflicts with the UN Drug Control Treaty System
Friday, 29 November 2019
There are good reasons to legally regulate drugs markets, rather than persist with efforts to ban all non-medical uses of psychoactive substances. Regulated cannabis and coca markets are already a re ...
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A global revolution in attitudes towards cannabis is under way
Thursday, 29 August 2019
Uruguay paved the way when it legalised cannabis in 2013. But it is the reform in Canada, a G7 member, that has done most to heighten international tension over cannabis’s legal status. Last year it ...
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INCB hearing on the use of cannabis for medical and non-medical purposes
Monday, 07 May 2018
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) held a meeting with civil society representatives on the “the use of cannabis for medical and non-medical purposes”. The meeting brought together a nu ...
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In bid to intimidate Canada on cannabis regulation, INCB is reckless and wrong
Friday, 04 May 2018
On May 1, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland appeared before the Canadian Senate’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (AEFA) to discuss the international dimension ...
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Hearing on Bill C-45 as it relates to Canada’s international obligations
Thursday, 19 April 2018
The international dimensions of Bill C-45 are of utmost importance not only for Canada itself but for many countries around the world that are moving in the direction of legally regulating the cannab ...
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Canada’s next steps on cannabis and the UN drug treaties
Thursday, 29 March 2018
Ever since the introduction of Bill C-45, questions have been swirling concerning Canada’s position relative to the UN drug control conventions: conventions to which Canada is a party and that, cruci ...
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Remarks Allyn Taylor at 2018 CND side event Regulating Cannabis in Accord with International Law
Wednesday, 28 March 2018The prior panelists have made a concrete political and legal case for the codification of a treaty inter se to address the tension between state regulation of cannabis and commitments under the Singl ...
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Balancing Treaty Stability and Change
Thursday, 22 March 2018
Legal tensions are growing within the international drug control regime as increasing numbers of member states move towards or seriously consider legal regulation of the cannabis market for non-medic ...
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Regulating Cannabis in Accord with International Law: Options to Explore
Friday, 16 March 2018
As a growing number of countries move towards legal regulation for non-medical cannabis, governments are pushing the boundaries of the three UN drug control treaties. At the 61st session of the Commi ...
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Cannabis Regulation and the UN Drug Treaties
Thursday, 16 June 2016
As jurisdictions enact reforms creating legal access to cannabis for purposes other than exclusively “medical and scientific,” tensions surrounding the existing UN drug treaties and evolving law and ...
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UNGASS 2016: Prospects for Treaty Reform and UN System-Wide Coherence on Drug Policy
Monday, 29 February 2016
This paper explores key lessons from the 1990 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Drug Abuse (UNGASS 1990) and the 1998 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on ...
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International Law and Drug Policy Reform
Friday, 03 July 2015
Drug policy reform is currently higher on the international agenda than it has been in recent memory. With a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs set for 19-21 April 2016 ...
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