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  • MP: Approval for city ‘coffee shop’ plan unlikely

    Friday, 15 January 2010
    MP: Approval for city ‘coffee shop’ plan unlikely

    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 embraced enthusiastically in parliament, according to a ...

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    denmark | coffee shop | recriminalisation | regulation | cannabis
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  • Blueprint for Regulation

    Sunday, 01 November 2009
    Blueprint for Regulation

    There 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 2009
    Illicit drugs policy through the lens of regulation

    The 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 2009
    Regulating khat

    The 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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    khat | regulation | UN drug control
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  • Marijuana's journey to legal health treatment

    Sunday, 16 August 2009
    Marijuana's journey to legal health treatment

    In 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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    canada | medical cannabis | regulation
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  • Legal Responses to New Psychoactive Substances in Europe

    Thursday, 19 February 2009
    Legal Responses to New Psychoactive Substances in Europe

    This 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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    legal highs | regulation
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  • Dutch mayors call for growing marijuana

    Sunday, 23 November 2008
    Dutch mayors call for growing marijuana

    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 group of around 30 Dutch mayors. This is the conclus ...

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    coffee shop | netherlands | regulation | cannabis
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  • Local councils support tolerant cannabis policy

    Tuesday, 18 November 2008
    Local councils support tolerant cannabis policy

    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 these outlets, according to a survey by NRC Hande ...

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    coffee shop | netherlands | regulation | cannabis
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  • Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate

    Monday, 01 September 2008
    Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate

    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 marginal position in international drug policy discussio ...

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    scientific research | cognitive decline | psychosis | conventions | coffee shop | regulation | cannabis | decriminalization
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  • Cannabis dreams drift away

    Monday, 07 April 2008
    Cannabis dreams drift away

    Following 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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    switzerland | regulation | cannabis | decriminalization
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  • Prohibition versus Legalization

    Saturday, 01 December 2007
    Prohibition versus Legalization

    Economists 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 2005
    The Market for Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs

    This 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 2001
    Evaluating alternative cannabis regimes

    Cannabis 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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    scientific research | australia | gateway theory | coffee shop | netherlands | regulation | cannabis | decriminalization
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  • The Dutch example shows that liberal drug laws can be beneficial

    Tuesday, 01 February 2000
    The Dutch example shows that liberal drug laws can be beneficial

    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 street in Amsterdam without tripping over junkies ...

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Drugs in the News

  • In blow for cannabis advocates, Italy's high court blocks referendum
    16.02.2022
  • Schumer asks for input as Democrats finalize cannabis bill
    10.02.2022
  • Europe should follow Malta's example on cannabis reform, says minister
    09.02.2022
  • Scotland's drug deaths: Consumption room pilot on track despite warning over legal barriers
    02.02.2022
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    01.02.2022
  • Can delta-8 THC provide some of the benefits of pot – with less paranoia and anxiety?
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Balancing Treaty Stability and Change

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Inter se modification of the UN drug control conventions to facilitate cannabis regulation


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Morocco and Cannabis

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The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition

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The History of Cannabis in the UN Drug Control System and Options For Reform


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