Items tagged with prohibition
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| German Green Party leader Cem Özdemir stripped of immunity over cannabis plant [16.01.2015] | Like countless people around the world, German politician Cem Özdemir took part in the Ice Bucket Challenge last summer. But now, according to German ... |
| Mexico: Challenging drug prohibition from below [13.01.2015] | The horrific forced disappearance of 43 students in Iguala reveals how organised crime and corruption thrive in conditions of institutional or democr ... |
| Does your politician have a drug policy problem? [07.01.2015] | "Your politician is showing all the symptoms of 'Drug Policy Abuse,'" reads the CDPC website. "They refuse to engage in an open and honest discussion ... |
| Superman ‘ecstasy’ pill deaths are result of ‘illogical and punitive drugs policy’ [05.01.2015] | The deaths of four men who had taken pills they thought were ecstasy are the result of the government’s "illogical and punitive drug policy", says Dr ... |
| France plans to stub out e-joints [15.12.2014] | France has sought to stamp out a new electronic cigarette containing cannabis, launched with the claim that it provides all of the relaxation but non ... |
| Does tougher enforcement make drugs more expensive? [30.11.2014] | Although the fact of prohibition itself raises prices far above those likely to pertain in legal markets, there is little evidence that raising the r ... |
| The 'Fifth Stage' of Drug Control [30.11.2014] | Writing in 1996, Norbert Gilmore noted that ‘little has been written about drug use and human rights. Human rights are rarely mentioned expressly in ... |
| Drug possession arrests double in past six years across NSW [27.11.2014] | The number of people arrested for possessing drugs in New South Wales (Australia) has doubled over the past six years, with NSW leading a national tr ... |
| Spice overdoses on the rise in Sweden [18.11.2014] | The statistics were released after six teenagers in Gothenburg were rushed to hospital after taking the drug in excessive quantities. Police have ope ... |
| Is prohibition worth the cost? [06.11.2014] | In Denmark there is little movement on drug policy. We know that we are just months from the next general election, but no political party has a poli ... |
| Prohibition is not working: the case for sanity in the war on drugs [29.10.2014] | The House of Commons will today debate whether to rethink the war on drugs. While it is only a backbench business debate, and is therefore not bindin ... |
| Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives on counternarcotics regimes and UNGASS 2016 [15.10.2014] | The approaching 2016 UNGASS and the meetings that will follow provide an important opportunity to reexamine the existing regime and improve global dr ... |
| Leading anti-marijuana academics are paid by painkiller drug companies [26.08.2014] | As Americans continue to embrace pot—as medicine and for recreational use—opponents are turning to a set of academic researchers to claim that policy ... |
| It’s time to talk about MDMA [10.08.2014] | Another summer festival season, another slate of tragic overdoses and a few overwrought reactions about the need to ban electronic music parties. “Pa ... |
| The federal marijuana ban is rooted in myth and xenophobia [28.07.2014] | The federal law that makes possession of marijuana a crime has its origins in legislation that was passed in an atmosphere of hysteria during the 193 ... |
| Repeal Prohibition, Again [27.07.2014] | It took 13 years for the United States to come to its senses and end Prohibition, 13 years in which people kept drinking, otherwise law-abiding citiz ... |
| The Guardian view on overdue overhauling of US and global drug laws [27.07.2014] | The war on drugs has been a losing fight for 40 years. The response to unending failure has always been to demand more law enforcement and more priso ... |
| Canada's 'Prince of Pot' to be released from U.S. prison [06.07.2014] | When the poster child for marijuana legalization is released from a U.S. prison later this week, he'll be re-entering a world where many of his ideas ... |
| The real reason pot is still illegal [30.06.2014] | The Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America (CADCA), one of the largest anti-legalization organizations in the US has a curious sponsor: Purdue Phar ... |
| Khat and mouse [28.06.2014] | On June 24, 2014, the sale of khat was prohibited in Britain, almost a year after home secretary Theresa May told the House of Commons that she inten ... |
| Let's look again at Sweden's 'successful' drug policies [25.06.2014] | Sweden is often portrayed as a success story in relation to drugs policy, not least by its own diplomats on the international stage and by the UN. Bu ... |
| No rehab for Russia's drug addicts [24.06.2014] | As the world marks the United Nations' International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, millions of drug addicts in Russia have nowhere ... |
| Banning Khat is another pointless drug law that will do more harm than good [24.06.2014] | Today, khat joined the range of prohibited substances that fall under the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. Those who distribute this Class C drug can now ... |
| Qat ban: UK police officers told to use their discretion in enforcement [22.06.2014] | Police have been officially advised to use their discretion in deciding how to enforce the ban on qat, a mild herbal stimulant, that has been widely ... |
| The war on drugs killed my daughter [21.06.2014] | Martha Fernback, 15, died from taking 91% pure ecstasy. The response of her mother, Anne-Marie Cockburn was unusual. She refused to blame her daughte ... |
| How neuroscience reinforces racist drug policy [12.06.2014] | A recent neuroscience study from Harvard Medical School claims to have discovered brain differences between people who smoke marijuana and people who ... |
| "Just say no" is not an "alternative approach" to the drug problem [30.05.2014] | Dr Hans-Christian Raabe, who was removed from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs after one month, this week wrote two rather provocative art ... |
| Ending the Drug Wars [06.05.2014] | The Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy was convened to produce the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international ... |
| The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition [10.03.2014] | The cannabis plant has been used for spiritual, medicinal and recreational purposes since the early days of civilization. In this report the Transnat ... |
| The war on dagga sobers up [28.02.2014] | The apartheid regime was terrified of white people interacting with black people, and saw cannabis as a dangerous enabler. They ensured it stayed pro ... |
| Kofi Annan: Stop 'war on drugs' [05.11.2013] | Each year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from preventable drug-related disease and violence. Millions of users are arrested an ... |
| Drugs legislation is hampering clinical research, warns David Nutt [03.11.2013] | The UK's drug laws are preventing scientists from carrying out vital research to unlock our understanding of the brain and find new treatments for co ... |
| War on illegal drugs failing, medical researchers warn [01.10.2013] | The global “war on drugs” has been such a failure that illegal substances are now cheaper and purer than at any period over the past two decades, war ... |
| Is the war on drugs nearing an end? [07.04.2013] | For four decades, libertarians, civil rights activists and drug treatment experts have stood outside of the political mainstream in arguing that the ... |
| Brad Pitt: America's war on drugs is a charade, and a failure [31.03.2013] | "Since declaring a war on drugs 40 years ago, the United States has spent more than a trillion dollars, arrested more than 45 million people, and rac ... |
| Our Right to Poison [21.02.2013] | German officials take a decidedly cool stance toward drug policy reform. No top politician with a major German party is about to call for a new drug ... |
| The DEA's marijuana mistake [24.01.2013] | A pro-marijuana group lost its legal battle when a federal appellate court ruled that marijuana would remain a Schedule I drug, defined as having no ... |
| 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 ... |
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