Items tagged with prohibition

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Doctors say UK drug policy should focus more on health [15.01.2013] Although illicit drug use has been declining in the UK, long-term problem drug use and drug-related deaths are not decreasing, says the British Medic ...
The 1971 Misuse of Drugs act was the stupidest and most ineffective ever passed [14.01.2013] Yet another parliamentary group has pronounced in favour of drugs decriminalisation. It still won’t happen. What is baffling is the intransigence of ...
Racism's hidden history in the war on drugs [02.01.2013] The first anti-drug law in the US was a local law in San Francisco passed in 1875, outlawing the smoking of opium and directed at the Chinese. Mariju ...
As US states legalise marijuana, is this the end of the drugs war? [10.11.2012] Last week was a momentous week, the beginning of the end, perhaps, of a national depravity – the "war on drugs". The voters of Colorado and Washingto ...
U.S. vote may be beginning of the end for War on Drugs [05.11.2012] "Exactly 80 years ago (in 1932), Colorado voters approved a ballot measure to appeal alcohol prohibition, and that came before it being repealed by t ...
Global drug policies need radical reform, says report [23.10.2012] The global war on drugs has failed and international policy requires radical reform to remove outmoded, unscientific thinking, according to a major n ...
75 years of racial control: happy birthday marijuana prohibition [27.09.2012] As we approach the 75th anniversary of marijuana prohibition in the United States on October 1, it is important to remember why marijuana was deemed ...
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 ...
After 33 years, I can no longer ignore the evidence on drugs [07.06.2012] "As a 33-year police practitioner who was commissioner of the Australian Federal Police during the 'tough on drugs' period, I fully understand the co ...
Time for open, informed debate on drug policy [18.04.2012] Latin American leaders have said recently that the West’s "war on drugs" has failed, and a new book from the International Institute for Strategic St ...
Drugs war 'a failure' that bred criminals [02.04.2012] Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, is among a group of prominent Australians who said the ''war on drugs'' is a failure. ''The prohibition of illici ...
The Prohibition of Illicit Drugs is Killing and Criminalising our Children [02.04.2012] It is time to reopen the national debate about drug use, its regulation and control. In June 2011 a prestigious Global Commission stated that the 40- ...
The War On Drugs Hurts Businesses and Investors [29.02.2012] “The drug war is weakening state institutions, infiltrating judicial systems and undermining rule of law,” all of which is bad for business, César Za ...
Rick Ross, '80s Crack Kingpin, Would Rather Have Sold Pot [11.01.2012] A leading distributor of crack cocaine in the 1980s would have preferred to have been a pot dealer, but was unable to find enough supply, he told The ...
Nieuwe publicatie van het Transnational Institute raadt de regering af khat te verbieden [11.01.2012] De engelstalige briefing Chewing over Khat Prohibition rekent af met de effectiviteit van een ban, zoals is gebleken uit andere Europese landen. Prob ...
Chewing over Khat prohibition [10.01.2012] In the context of a fast changing and well documented market in legal highs, the case of khat (Catha edulis) provides an interesting anomaly. It is f ...
How well do international drug conventions protect public health? [07.01.2012] The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961 aimed to eliminate the illicit production and non-medical use of cannabis, cocaine, and opioids, an a ...
The great debate that no one's talking about [03.12.2011] Scientists, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors and directors of public prosecution are pleading for change but no political party will touch th ...
It's time to end the phoney war on drugs [29.11.2011] 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 three co ...
Dr. Evan Wood: There is nothing conservative about supporting marijuana prohibition [28.11.2011] Imagine an extremely expensive government policy proven to be completely ineffective at achieving its stated objectives. Consider also that whenever ...
The global war on drugs has failed [21.11.2011] To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the Beckley Foundation published a public letter calling for a new a ...
The war on drugs and the shameful silence of our politicians [13.11.2011] In a parliamentary debate in the House of Commons, David Cameron said: "I ask the Labour government not to return to retribution and war on drugs. Th ...
Juan Manuel Santos: 'It is time to think again about the war on drugs' [13.11.2011] 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 profi ...
How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime [11.11.2011] This contradicts one of the central tenets of the War on Drugs, which is that the psychopharmacological effects of drug use lead to criminal behavior ...
The long shadow line: History and the war on drugs [09.10.2011] Tobacco rose and fell and rose and fell in a 400-year smoking spree that established a pattern for the trade in all addictive substances. Beginning w ...
World Drug Day 2011 - Counting the Costs of the War on Drugs! [05.09.2011] Anniversaries are always good to catalyize drug policy reform activities – and 2011 is very special anniversary. It is the 50th anniversary of the Si ...
'Legal highs' prevalence makes ban policy 'ridiculous' [03.09.2011] New "legal highs" are being discovered at the rate of one a week, outstripping attempts to control their availability and exposing what some experts ...
Mexico's Narco-Epiphany: Is Calderón Suggesting the U.S. Legalize Drugs? [30.08.2011] 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 alarm u ...
The Drug War Is the Inevitable Result of Capitalism Gone Mad; Ciudad Juarez Is All of Our Futures [21.06.2011] War, as I came to report it, was something fought between people with causes, however crazy or honourable: like between the American and British occup ...
The Drug War Must End: More Evidence from Thailand [21.06.2011] Only weeks after the Global Commission on Drug Policy called for the end of the drug war, new video testimony from Thailand reinforces why this is a ...
Russia's punitive drug laws [18.06.2011] Life is especially difficult for the 6 million drug addicts living in Russia because methadone is banned, and they are reluctant to use the few avail ...
Four Decades Later, It's Time to Scrap the Dead-End Drug War [17.06.2011] I recently returned from the desert city of Durango, Mexico, where forensic officials are still trying to identify some 240 corpses discovered this y ...
On 40th Anniversary Of War On Drugs, Cops Decry Obama's Drug Policy [15.06.2011] Forty years after President Richard Nixon first declared a war on drugs, the officers who fought in it are calling for a truce. Former law enforcemen ...
Elected Officials, VIPs and Grassroots Slam Drug War on 40th Anniversary [14.06.2011] June 17 will mark forty years since President Richard Nixon, citing drug abuse as "public enemy No. 1," officially declared a "war on drugs." A trill ...
Russia defies growing consensus with declaration of 'Total War on Drugs' [08.06.2011] "Sending more people to prison will not reduce drug addiction or improve public health," said Anya Sarang, president of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation, ...
More Calls For A Drug War Cease-Fire [06.06.2011] 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 vo ...
The Saturday interview: Richard Branson [04.06.2011] "I've seen the war on drugs and I've not been impressed," says Richard Branson. "Thousands of people are being killed in Mexico because of the demand ...
The drug war comes full circle [03.06.2011] The most striking name on the list is that of Kofi Annan. As secretary general of the United Nations in 1998, Kofi Annan presided over a special Unite ...
War on drugs not working, says global commission [02.06.2011] The global war on drugs has failed and governments should explore legalising marijuana and other controlled substances, according to a commission tha ...
Drug laws and bans on legal highs 'do more harm than good' [14.05.2011] The UK's "outdated" drug laws could be doing more harm than good and are failing to recognise that banning some "legal highs" may have negative conse ...
Drug laws 'may make matters worse' [31.03.2011] 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 Lords Celebrate the Drug War at the UN! [29.03.2011] When the United Nations adopted the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961, most people did not expect that 50 years later nobody will celebrate ...
The War on Drugs - Count the Costs and Explore the Alternatives [23.03.2011] The war on drugs creates massive costs, resulting from the enforcement-led approach that puts organised crime in control of the trade. It is time to ...
Fifty Years of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs: A Reinterpretation [19.03.2011] This year marks the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, signed on 30 March 1961. 73 countries were represente ...
Drug War Anniversary a Time for Reflection and Action [11.02.2011] Some anniversaries provide an occasion for celebration, others a time for reflection, still others a time for action. This June will mark forty years ...
The development of international drug control [01.02.2011] The emergence of more pragmatic and less punitive approaches to the drugs issue may represent the beginning of change in the current global drug cont ...
Latin American statesmen question drugs war strategy [27.01.2011] Three former Latin American presidents have declared the US-led “war on drugs” a failure and called for new strategies focusing on treatment to repla ...
Towards a new drug policy [25.01.2011] What are the benefits and risks of eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana possession for personal use? What are the risks and benefits of disti ...
Ending the futile war on drugs [27.12.2010] 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 h ...
The only winner in the 'war on drugs' [02.12.2010] The outcome of this militarisation of drugs policy has been overwhelmingly negative. Military involvement in such an irregular war was not only unrea ...

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