Items tagged with law enforcement
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| Revised ganja law fundamental and far reaching — Bunting [10.05.2015] | National Security Minister Bunting says amendments to the Dangerous Drugs Act, resulting in decriminalisation of specified quantities of ganja, are " ... |
| 2016: The UN's year to take on drugs [26.04.2015] | Global disagreement over drug policies provides an important opportunity to reconsider the effectiveness of existing counternarcotics policies, addre ... |
| The Road to UNGASS 2016 [14.04.2015] | On 19th to 21st April 2016, there will be a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) held in New York, dedicated to the issue of drug ... |
| Im Görlitzer Park wird weiter gedealt [08.04.2015] | Seit dem 31. März gilt im Görlitzer Park die Null- Toleranz-Regelung. Wer mit kleinsten Mengen Marihuana oder Haschisch erwischt wird, muss mit einer ... |
| U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades [07.04.2015] | For more than two decades, the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls from the USA ... |
| Legalisierung von Cannabis statt drogenfreier Zone [12.03.2015] | Der Görlitzer Park in Kreuzberg soll ab April eine Null-Toleranz-Zone für Drogen werden. Die Grünen halten das für unrealistisch und haben stattdesse ... |
| Report illustrates dynamics of Colombia's domestic drug trade [25.02.2015] | A recent analysis on the relationship between local drug markets and violence and crime in Colombia illustrates the dynamics driving the domestic dru ... |
| Why is Rio de Janeiro so dangerous? [18.02.2015] | While Brazil has the dubious honor of having the highest homicide rate in the world – with 56,337 killings reported in 2013 – Rio has the most number ... |
| Drug policy in India [14.02.2015] | India’s response to drugs flows along an extraordinary spectrum – of tradition and modernity; of widespread availability and stringent enforcement; o ... |
| Rights group: Tough laws wrong response to Tunisia's drugs problem [12.02.2015] | Tunisia's tough law on cannabis use, laying down jail terms of at least one year, is "destroying lives" and overcrowding prisons, according to a grou ... |
| HSBC got away with buying cocaine plane [10.02.2015] | A money-laundering investigation as big as the bank itself ended with a deferred prosecution agreement that allowed HSBC to escape criminal charges a ... |
| Drugs in the UK: Why we need to talk about regulation and decriminalisation [30.01.2015] | Fighting the war on drugs in the UK costs an estimated £13 billion annually. It has cost lives recently, too; four people died after taking ecstasy p ... |
| Is São Paulo's drug treatment program working? [21.01.2015] | Authorities say crack use has dropped 80 percent in São Paulo's notorious "Crackland" district since the implementation of With Open Arms ("De Braços ... |
| 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 ... |
| Is Obama finally ready to dial back the war on drugs? [31.12.2014] | As Obama embarks on the third year of his second term, here are some of the ways in which Obama has begun to deliver on his promises of a more ration ... |
| Fixing a broken system [28.12.2014] | Despite efforts by governments in Latin America, illicit drugs continue to provide one of the largest incomes for criminal organizations, enabling th ... |
| No, legal US drugs aren’t being trafficked into Mexico en masse [02.12.2014] | The US Drug Enforcement Agency has now walked back statements it made about the trafficking of marijuana grown in the US to buyers in Mexico, after b ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Punitive drug law enforcement failing, says Home Office study [30.10.2014] | There is no evidence that tough enforcement of the drug laws on personal possession leads to lower levels of drug use, according to the UK government ... |
| 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 ... |
| Colombia, more than three decades of toxic sprayings. Enough! [26.09.2014] | It is unfortunate that 35 years after the first chemical spraying in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, we are still writing about aerial sprayings in ... |
| Latin America’s Anti-drug Policies Feed on the Poor [04.09.2014] | Poor young men, slumdwellers and single mothers are hurt the most by anti-drug policies in Latin America, according to representatives of governments ... |
| Nonsense to arrest for a spliff [11.08.2014] | The attorney general, Patrick Atkinson, must move with dispatch to determine, as the justice minister, Mark Golding, suggests, whether the police can ... |
| Ganja growers demand amnesty on weed arrests [09.08.2014] | A call has been made for the government to declare an amnesty on all arrests for the possession of under one pound of marijuana. The plea from the Ga ... |
| The injustice of marijuana arrests [27.07.2014] | America’s four-decade war on drugs is responsible for many casualties, but the criminalization of marijuana has been perhaps the most destructive par ... |
| DEA may be losing the war on marijuana politics [11.07.2014] | The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has found itself under attack in Congress as it holds its ground against marijuana legalization while the r ... |
| Albania cracks down on marijuana production in key southern village [18.06.2014] | With the fruits of its labor turning up in Italy, Greece and, last year, Germany, Albania has come under increasing pressure from the European Union ... |
| Limburg marijuana growers turn over €240m a year: local paper [30.05.2014] | Despite efforts to clamp down on marijuana plantations, growers in the southern province of Limburg turn over some €240m a year, according to calcula ... |
| L'émergence d'un cannabis made in France [12.05.2014] | Les consommateurs du cannabis en France préférant de plus en plus l'herbe, facile à cultiver en France, à la résine marocaine, le marché s'adapte, re ... |
| Study: Marijuana legalization doesn’t increase crime [14.04.2014] | After Colorado legalized marijuana for recreational use this year, violent and property crime rates in the city are actually falling. According to da ... |
| America’s new drug policy landscape [01.04.2014] | Public opinion in the US appears ready for a truce in the war on drugs. A national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that support for the legal ... |
| DEA chief: Marijuana legalization just 'makes us fight harder' [01.04.2014] | Far from being discouraged by shifts in public opinion, state laws and even within the Obama administration on the legalization of marijuana, federal ... |
| 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 ... |
| Drug busts push teens towards hard drugs in Lebanon [29.01.2014] | The relentless crackdown by security forces on the mainly cannabis-smoking youth in Beirut has had several negative repercussions on the Lebanese soc ... |
| Why do Brazilian police kill? [20.11.2013] | An average of five people were killed by police every day in Brazil last year, according to an annual security report, revealing an entrenched cultur ... |
| Whither Rio de Janeiro’s Police Pacification Units? [18.11.2013] | Rio de Janeiro’s Pacification Police Units (UPP) are celebrating their fifth year in 2013. They do so with generally positive approval ratings from t ... |
| Let the gangs wither and the state turn a profit [04.11.2013] | As a law enforcement professional, I was waiting impatiently for the government’s recommendations for fighting gang crime. I’ve been especially impat ... |
| Drugs as war economy and the peace process in Colombia: dilemmas and challenges [28.10.2013] | The fourth item on the agenda of talks “to end the conflict,” on the issue of drugs, seems to reflect rather a flat and simplistic view of the classi ... |
| Weed: Decriminalise to stabilise [26.10.2013] | Jamaica's current volatile security environment and its economic malaise are reasons enough to seriously consider joining their Latin American counte ... |
| Human rights and drug control: an irreconcilable contradiction? [15.10.2013] | This week both the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna and the UN General Assembly 3rd Committee in New York discuss new drug control res ... |
| Rio police charged over torture and death of missing favela man [02.10.2013] | Ten police in Rio de Janeiro have been charged with the torture and killing of a resident of the city's biggest favela in a case that has highlighted ... |
| 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 ... |
| Police targeting cannabis users [24.09.2013] | Police in Copenhagen have cannabis users in their crosshairs as they struggle to close the illegal drug trade in Copenhagen commune Christiania. Task ... |
| Analysis: Colombia’s fight against the coca trade [05.09.2013] | EL TARRA, 28 August 2013 (IRIN) - The Colombian government believes people should just say no to growing coca: those that do not, risk aerial sprayin ... |
| Drug law enforcement and financial investigation strategies [31.08.2013] | Since the 1980s, there has been a major push in rhetoric and institution-building, emphasizing the centrality of attacking the financial lifeblood of ... |
| Online activists take on police in Christiania [01.08.2013] | In response to the increased police presence in and around Christiania, a number of citizens are fighting back online. Fans of Christiania have long ... |
| The most embarrassing graph in American drug policy [28.05.2013] | Law enforcement strategies have utterly failed to even maintain street prices of the key illicit substances. This figure shows that street drug price ... |
| Deficiencies in financial oversight enable money laundering [15.05.2013] | In July 1989, the leaders of the economic powers assembled at the G7 Paris summit decided to establish a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to counte ... |
| Green green grass of home: police crack down on cottage industry of cannabis [10.04.2013] | Across the UK, 7,865 cannabis farms were discovered in 2011-12, an increase of 15% on the previous year's figures and over double the number for 2007 ... |
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