Tag: regulation
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MP: Approval for city ‘coffee shop’ plan unlikely
Friday, 15 January 2010The 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 embraced enthusiastically in parliament, according to a ...
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Blueprint for Regulation
Sunday, 01 November 2009There is a growing recognition around the world that the prohibition of drugs is a counterproductive failure. However, a major barrier to drug law reform has been a widespread fear of the unknown—jus ...
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Illicit drugs policy through the lens of regulation
Sunday, 01 November 2009The application of regulatory theory to the problem of illicit drugs has generally been thought about only in terms of ‘command and control’. The international treaties governing global illicit drug ...
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Regulating khat
Sunday, 01 November 2009The regulation of khat, one of the most recent psychoactive drugs to become a globally traded commodity, remains hotly contested within different producer and consumer countries. As regimes vary, it ...
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Marijuana's journey to legal health treatment
Sunday, 16 August 2009In 2001, Canada became the first country to adopt a formal system to regulate the medicinal use of marijuana — the Marijuana Medical Access Regulations. The policy allowed people suffering from termi ...
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Legal Responses to New Psychoactive Substances in Europe
Thursday, 19 February 2009This paper starts from the premise that, when a new psychoactive substance appears on the licit/illicit market in a country in Europe, legislators need to choose whether to bring it under control of ...
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Dutch mayors call for growing marijuana
Sunday, 23 November 2008The 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 group of around 30 Dutch mayors. This is the conclus ...
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Local councils support tolerant cannabis policy
Tuesday, 18 November 2008Most 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 these outlets, according to a survey by NRC Hande ...
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Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate
Monday, 01 September 2008Despite cannabis being the most widely used illegal drug, and therefore the mainstay of the ‘war on drugs’, it has only ever held a relatively marginal position in international drug policy discussio ...
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Cannabis dreams drift away
Monday, 07 April 2008Following decades of rising cannabis use and talk of liberalisation, Switzerland had appeared poised to become the marijuana capital of Europe. The country still boasts some of the highest rates of c ...
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Prohibition versus Legalization
Saturday, 01 December 2007Economists have been among the leading critics of current drug policies, but this criticism does not mean they have reached a consensus about specific reforms. Although drug-policy researchers and ec ...
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The Market for Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs
Saturday, 01 October 2005This paper considers the costs of reducing consumption of a good by making its production illegal, and punishing apprehended illegal producers. We use illegal drugs as a prominent example. Download t ...
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Evaluating alternative cannabis regimes
Wednesday, 31 January 2001Cannabis is the cutting-edge drug for reform, the only politically plausible candidate for major legal change, at least decriminalisation (removal of criminal penalties for possession) and pe ...
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The Dutch example shows that liberal drug laws can be beneficial
Tuesday, 01 February 2000U.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 street in Amsterdam without tripping over junkies ...
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