Items tagged with regulation
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| The problem is more than just the substances, it's the prohibition itself [09.08.2010] | Maria Lucia Karam, a retired Brazilian judge, argues that drugs should be legalised - but regulated. Every country that has provided a glimpse of wha ... |
| Marijuana Legalization Gaining Favor in Mexico [08.08.2010] | "I don't think that marijuana legalization will be a panacea on drug violence in Mexico," said David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at ... |
| Why the US and Latin America could be ready to end a fruitless 40-year struggle [08.08.2010] | Mexico's president Felipe Caldéron is the latest Latin leader to call for a debate on drugs legalisation. And in the US, liberals and right-wing libe ... |
| De “no hay alternativa” a “enséñenme la salida” [06.08.2010] | Aun cuando tarde, siempre será bienvenida la disposición presidencial para admitir la necesidad de un debate largamente pospuesto en su administració ... |
| Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health [06.08.2010] | The current international system of drug control has focused on creating a drug-free world, almost exclusively through use of law enforcement policie ... |
| An alternative to the war on drugs [17.07.2010] | Stephen Rolles argues that we need to end the criminalisation of drugs and set up regulatory models that will control drug markets and reduce the har ... |
| A good chew or good riddance [15.07.2010] | The article reviews the status of khat, the most recent plant based psychoactive substance to reach a global market, and considers policy making proc ... |
| Altered State? [07.07.2010] | To learn more about the possible outcomes of marijuana legalization in California, RAND researchers constructed a model based on a series of estimate ... |
| Ending drug prohibition: the ultimate austerity measure [18.05.2010] | The ban on recreational drugs promotes crime and is bad for public health. Austerity measures to cut public spending are a hot topic for debate every ... |
| Former ministers: legalise all drugs! [18.05.2010] | 'Save the country, legalise drugs.' Under this striking banner, two former Dutch government ministers (for foreign affairs and health) are launching ... |
| The changing use and misuse of khat [07.05.2010] | Within the last decade the hitherto little known psychoactive substance of khat has emerged as a regional and international issue. In the Horn of Afr ... |
| Budgetary benefits of cannabis regulation [20.04.2010] | In the United States the discussion on the pros and cons of regulating cannabis is well advanced. The national television news programme CNBC has ded ... |
| MP: Approval for city ‘coffee shop’ plan unlikely [15.01.2010] | The Copenhagen City Council’s plan to set up shops selling cannabis as a way to remove the market from the control of gangs is not likely to be embra ... |
| Blueprint for Regulation [01.11.2009] | There is a growing recognition around the world that the prohibition of drugs is a counterproductive failure. However, a major barrier to drug law re ... |
| Illicit drugs policy through the lens of regulation [01.11.2009] | The application of regulatory theory to the problem of illicit drugs has generally been thought about only in terms of ‘command and control’. The int ... |
| Regulating khat [01.11.2009] | The regulation of khat, one of the most recent psychoactive drugs to become a globally traded commodity, remains hotly contested within different pro ... |
| Marijuana's journey to legal health treatment [16.08.2009] | In 2001, Canada became the first country to adopt a formal system to regulate the medicinal use of marijuana — the Marijuana Medical Access Regulatio ... |
| Legal Responses to New Psychoactive Substances in Europe [19.02.2009] | This paper starts from the premise that, when a new psychoactive substance appears on the licit/illicit market in a country in Europe, legislators ne ... |
| Dutch mayors call for growing marijuana [23.11.2008] | The Dutch government should licence the growing and supply of marijuana to the country’s 700 or so coffee shops that sell cannabis, according to a gr ... |
| Local councils support tolerant cannabis policy [18.11.2008] | Most of the Dutch local councils that have so-called coffee shops which sell marijuana say they have no problem with the current policy of tolerating ... |
| Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate [01.09.2008] | Despite cannabis being the most widely used illegal drug, and therefore the mainstay of the ‘war on drugs’, it has only ever held a relatively margin ... |
| Cannabis dreams drift away [07.04.2008] | Following decades of rising cannabis use and talk of liberalisation, Switzerland had appeared poised to become the marijuana capital of Europe. The c ... |
| Prohibition versus Legalization [01.12.2007] | Economists have been among the leading critics of current drug policies, but this criticism does not mean they have reached a consensus about specifi ... |
| The Market for Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs [01.10.2005] | This paper considers the costs of reducing consumption of a good by making its production illegal, and punishing apprehended illegal producers. We us ... |
| Evaluating alternative cannabis regimes [31.01.2001] | Cannabis is the cutting-edge drug for reform, the only politically plausible candidate for major legal change, at least decriminalisation (re ... |
| The Dutch example shows that liberal drug laws can be beneficial [01.02.2000] | U.S. drug control officials have denounced Dutch drug policy as if it were the devil himself. One former U.S. Drug Czar said "you can't walk down the ... |
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