Events

The Future of Cannabis in the Caribbean

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 15:49:43 +0000

Two years after the presentation of the 2018 CARICOM report “Waiting to Exhale - Safeguarding our future through responsible socio-legal policy on Marijuana” at the CND, this years’ side event the or ...

Stimulant drug use in Latin America and Asia

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:23:41 +0000

Problematic use of stimulant drugs, with a particular focus on smokeable cocaine and methamphetamine, still lack of specific technical guides for effective health and social interventions. This sessi ...

Supply side harm reduction

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:47:12 +0000

Evidence shows that most drug control measures taken to limit the supply of plants used for illicit purposes are not only ineffective in reducing the total amount of drugs available on the global dru ...

Cannabis and the Conventions: UNGASS and Beyond

Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:56:05 +0000

With an increasing number of jurisdictions enacting or contemplating reforms creating legal access to cannabis for purposes other than exclusively "medical and scientific," tensions regarding the dru ...

Cannabis Science and Policy Summit 2016

Fri, 20 May 2016 08:18:26 +0000

With California and other states likely to vote on full cannabis legalization, decisions made in 2016 may well shape the future of cannabis policy for a generation or more. Scientists, policy thinker ...

The Heemskerk Declaration

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:38:27 +0000

In a global meeting small scale farmers of cannabis, coca and opium from 14 countries in Heemskerk, the Netherlands, discussed their contribution to the United Nations General Assembly Special Sessio ...

Supporting the process towards UNGASS 2016

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:08:08 +0000

The Cartagena Dialogue – organized by four governments and four civil society organizations, with the participation of 79 official and non-governmental delegates from three continents – was designed ...

Civil society urges EU leadership on drug policy ahead of UNGASS

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 12:08:51 +0000

The Budapest Group is a network of European NGOs working in the field of drug policy reform, including Harm Reduction International, the Global Drug Policy Program of the Open Society Foundations (OS ...

Exploring the land-drugs nexus

Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:35:30 +0000

"For many communities in Myanmar who grow opium, for them opium is not the problem, it is the solution to their problems," said local project consultant, Tom Kramer, from the Transnational Institute. ...

Caribbean Drug Policy Dialogue 2015 San Juan (Puerto Rico)

Fri, 24 Apr 2015 23:00:00 +0000

Focusing on the Caribbean region, the thirteenth Informal Drug Policy Dialogue in Latin America, was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from 23-25 April 2015, at the initiative of TNI (Transnational Inst ...

The IISS Cartagena Dialogue: The Trans-Pacific Summit

Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:42:50 +0000

The IISS Cartagena Dialogue focused on the developing relations between the Latin American states of the ‘Pacific Alliance’ and key countries from the Asia-Pacific. Download the Speakers Agenda

Exploring the Land-Drugs Nexus

Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:35:09 +0000

This conference will explore the nexus between land and drugs. Download Conference Agenda (PDF, 127KB)

International Impacts of the U.S. Trend towards Legal Marijuana

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:34:23 +0000

For decades, the United States has been a champion of the global drug control treaty system, which limits the use of marijuana exclusively to medical and scientific purposes, and obligates government ...

Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives on counternarcotics regimes and UNGASS 2016

Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:49:51 +0000

The approaching 2016 UNGASS and the meetings that will follow provide an important opportunity to reexamine the existing regime and improve global drug policy through robust policy evaluations and im ...

Mind Your Eye 2014

Fri, 30 May 2014 23:00:00 +0000

This year the Mind Your Eye conference will deal with the impact the drug problem has on businesses and on security, as well with alternatives to deal with the drug problem. Download programme (PDF) ...

Global Experiences with Harm Reduction for Stimulants and New Psychoactive Substances

Thu, 15 May 2014 23:00:00 +0000

The objective of this seminar is to compare the findings on innovative tools for the prevention of problematic cocaine use patterns, with experiences with harm reduction measures for stimulants in o ...

Monitoring and evaluating Uruguay’s new law regulating cannabis

Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:34:06 +0000

This side event will be an opportunity for Uruguay’s National Drugs Board to present the country’s new legislation, and open constructive debates on the implications of such policy at the national an ...

New Winds in Latin American Drug Policies

Wed, 12 Mar 2014 07:29:39 +0000

Join us in Amsterdam for a seminar on the latest drug policy trends in Latin America. Friday, 21 March 2014 Time: 14.30-17.00 CEDLA: Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation

Informal Drug Policy Dialogue 2014, Athens (Greece)

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:43:27 +0000

The eleventh Informal Drug Policy Dialogue took place in Athens, co-organised by TNI and Diogenes Association. The programme incuded five sessions: (1) an overview of the national Greek drug policy a ...

Informal Drug Policy Dialogue 2013 Warsaw

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 08:40:18 +0000

The tenth meeting of the Informal Drug Policy Dialogue series, organised by the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Diogenis gathered over 35 NGO representatives, academics, policy makers and practitio ...