Items tagged with portugal
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| Comparing models of drug decriminalisation [31.12.2019] | Decriminalisation refers to the repeal of laws and policies that define drug use and/or the possession of drugs for personal use as a criminal offenc... |
| Harm reduction is the right way to treat drug abuse [24.11.2018] | Portugal’s policies are based on “ harm reduction ” approaches pioneered in countries such as Switzerland in the 1980s. The idea is to emphasise trea... |
| How 'fixing rooms' are saving the lives of drug addicts [21.11.2018] | All over Europe, every day, many thousands of people will inject heroin in drug consumption rooms. But none of these will be in the UK, where drug ad... |
| Portugal's parliament legalises cannabis-based medicines [15.06.2018] | Portugal’s parliament overwhelmingly approved a bill to legalise marijuana-based medicines, after rejecting earlier proposals to allow patients to gr... |
| Is Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drugs a failing model? [17.05.2018] | Sweden is accustomed to being praised for its forward-thinking approach, but there's one area where many feel it lies behind the curve. The country's... |
| Portuguese doctors back marijuana medicine as bill enters parliament [11.01.2018] | Portugal's influential Doctors' Association called for the legalisation of marijuana-based medicines, the same day parliament started to debate a dra... |
| Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? [05.12.2017] | In 2001, Portugal became the first country to decriminalise the possession and consumption of all illicit substances. Rather than being arrested, tho... |
| How to win a war on drugs [22.09.2017] | Decades ago, the United States and Portugal both struggled with illicit drugs and took decisive action — in diametrically opposite directions. The U.... |
| Cannabis legislation in Europe [15.03.2017] | At a time of increased debate on the laws controlling the use of cannabis in the European Union, this report answers some of the questions most often... |
| Drugs in Europe: Not mind-stretching enough [17.06.2016] | European countries’ reforms have lost momentum, or even slipped backwards. Most drug-policy experts consider this a shame. The reformist countries’ e... |
| Rethinking drug prohibition on a global scale [01.05.2016] | Last month, the United Nations General Assembly met for the first time in history to reconsider international drug prohibition with an eye toward pol... |
| The old global consensus on the war on drugs is crumbling [09.04.2016] | Once a decade, the United Nations organizes a meeting where every country in the world comes together to figure out what to do about drugs — and up t... |
| A Quiet Revolution [14.03.2016] | This is the second edition of ‘A Quiet Revolution: Drug Decriminalisation Across the Globe’. The first edition was released in July 2012 and has sinc... |
| Decriminalizing drugs: When treatment replaces prison [07.12.2015] | Cities all over the US are copying Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program, in which police officers put low-level drug offenders into t... |
| Public to have say on legality of drugs [03.07.2015] | The Irish public is being invited to have a say in what is thought to be the country’s first official examination of the decriminalisation of drugs f... |
| Why hardly anyone dies from a drug overdose in Portugal [04.06.2015] | Portugal decriminalized the use of all drugs in 2001. Weed, cocaine, heroin, you name it -- Portugal decided to treat possession and use of small qua... |
| Justice minister calls for light drug legalisation, PM pulls rug [08.02.2015] | The Portuguese justice minister, Paula Teixeira da Cruz, said she agreed with decriminalizing the use of soft drugs, in an interview to TSF radio, so... |
| Reform der Cannabispolitik in Europa [27.12.2014] | Während die Reform der Cannabispolitik in Amerika Fahrt aufnimmt, scheint Europa hinterherzuhinken. Genauer gesagt, die europäischen Staaten auf nati... |
| Prohibition is not working: the case for sanity in the war on drugs [29.10.2014] | The House of Commons will today debate whether to rethink the war on drugs. While it is only a backbench business debate, and is therefore not bindin... |
| The difference between legalisation and decriminalisation [17.06.2014] | The war on cannabis seems to be slowly burning out. On June 12th Jamaica announced that it plans to decriminalise possession of small amounts of the ... |
| "Just say no" is not an "alternative approach" to the drug problem [30.05.2014] | Dr Hans-Christian Raabe, who was removed from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs after one month, this week wrote two rather provocative art... |
| Marijuana on the move [26.01.2014] | Some 20 years ago, a Spanish official in favor of lifting the ban on drugs such as marijuana mentioned at a UN meeting that there "might be a more hu... |
| 'This is working' [26.03.2013] | Twelve years ago, Portugal eliminated criminal penalties for drug users. Since then, those caught with small amounts of marijuana, cocaine or heroin ... |
| Towards a ceasefire [22.02.2013] | Partial reforms have their limits. Most drug crime is not cannabis-related. Moving from punishment to harm reduction may help drug users, but it leav... |
| Major victory for President Morales: UN accepts “coca leaf chewing” in Bolivia [14.01.2013] | Bolivia will again belong to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs after its bid to rejoin with a reservation that it does not accept the trea... |
| Towards a Safer Drug Policy [14.01.2013] | For forty years the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 has formed the corner stone of drug policy in Britain. The emergence of new psychoactive substances (‘le... |
| Bolivia wins a rightful victory on the coca leaf [11.01.2013] | Today the Plurinational State of Bolivia can celebrate a rightful victory, as the country can become formally a party again to the 1961 Single Conven... |
| David Cameron urged to take 'now or never' step on drugs reform [09.12.2012] | David Cameron should urgently set up a royal commission to consider all the alternatives to Britain's failing drug laws, including decriminalisation ... |
| Portuguese drug policy shows that decriminalisation can work [09.12.2012] | The Home Affairs Select Committee in the United Kingdom report on drug policy draws on lessons from Portugal’s decriminalisation of drug possession a... |
| Portugal: Ten years after decriminalization [26.11.2012] | In 2001, a small European country, Portugal, took a brave step, changing its drug policies and refocussing its efforts away from arresting and crimin... |
| Latin America looks to Europe for drug fighting models [17.11.2012] | Latin American countries are turning to Europe for lessons on fighting drugs after souring on the prohibition-style approach of the violent and costl... |
| Prevalence of daily cannabis use in the European Union and Norway [14.11.2012] | This report brings together, for the first time in Europe, an integrated overview of the prevalence of intensive cannabis use, defined as daily or al... |
| Portugal progresses toward integrated cannabis regulation [25.10.2012] | In recent years there has been much talk of the so-called “Portuguese model,” based on an initiative that led to the use of illicit drugs being decri... |
| Drug use is an issue for society, not the criminal justice system [10.09.2012] | There is no reliable evidence that tougher criminal sanctions deter drug use or offending. On the contrary, criminalisation worsens the health and we... |
| Once a model, crisis imperils Portugal's drug programme [13.08.2012] | Portugal's famously liberal drug policy has been held up as a model for other countries - Norway is considering adopting parts of it and countries as... |
| “In Portugal, We Fight the Illness, Not the People Who Suffer from It” [30.07.2012] | Portugal’s anti-drug policies have been gaining international visibility since this country's 2001 decision to eliminate all criminal penalties for p... |
| U.S. says drug abuse needs treatment, not just jail [23.05.2012] | The United States sees drug abuse as a public health problem as much as a crime issue and is seeking to learn from countries in Europe and elsewhere ... |
| A resounding success or a disastrous failure [05.01.2012] | Two observers and scholars of the 2001 Portuguese drug policy reform consider divergent accounts of the reform which viewed it as a ‘resounding succe... |
| Portugal and the drug war [23.11.2011] | Portuguese drug policy and the drug treatment system are not without challenges and problems. No system is perfect and operates within a constantly c... |
| Minister considers Portuguese drugs strategy [04.11.2011] | Junior Health Minister Roisin Shortall, who is in charge of Ireland’s drugs strategy, said she had an "open mind" in relation to Portugal’s model. Sh... |
| Drug Policy in Portugal [31.08.2011] | ? In 2000, the Portuguese government responded to widespread public concern over drugs by rejecting a "war on drugs" approach and instead decriminali... |
| Portugal drug law show results ten years on, experts say [01.07.2011] | Health experts in Portugal say that Portugal's decision 10 years ago to decriminalise drug use and treat addicts rather than punishing them is an expe... |
| Dug Policy Profile Portugal [23.06.2011] | This profile describes the national drug policy of Portugal, a policy that has attracted significant attention recently in the media and in policy de... |
| Obama: Drugs Should Be Treated as "Public Health Problem" [28.01.2011] | In an online town hall session yesterday, U.S. President Barack Obama suggested that, while he is not in favor of drug legalization, he does believe ... |
| Drug experiment [16.01.2011] | Faced with both a public health crisis and a public relations disaster, Portugal’s elected officials took a bold step. They decided to decriminalize ... |
| Portugal's drug policy pays off; US eyes lessons [26.12.2010] | The United States, which has waged a 40-year, $1 trillion war on drugs, is looking for answers in tiny Portugal, which is reaping the benefits of wha... |
| What Can We Learn From The Portuguese Decriminalization of Illicit Drugs? [30.11.2010] | The issue of decriminalizing illicit drugs is hotly debated, but is rarely subject to evidence-based analysis. This paper examines the case of Portug... |
| Portugal's Drug Experience: New Study Confirms Decriminalization Was a Success [23.11.2010] | From the perspective of drug warriors, the criminal laws against drug possession are all that protect Americans from a deluge of drugs, an orgy of ma... |
| Portuguese priorities [11.10.2010] | In July 2001, the Portuguese government introduced Law 30, setting in train a radical new approach to illicit drug use. In practice, it decriminalise... |
| What Britain could learn from Portugal's drugs policy [05.09.2010] | In the midst of the recently resurgent debate in Britain about whether our drug laws are working – or require a major overhaul – the experience of Po... |
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