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Willful Blindness:  INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:59:41 +0000

In its Report for 2022, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the “independent, quasi-judicial expert body” that monitors the implementation of the UN drug control conventions, focuses on ...

Cannabis and Climate

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 20:25:10 +0000

Environmental impacts are rarely taken into account in the cannabis regulation debate. The assumption is that legal regulation would automatically reduce the negative environmental consequences of th ...

Prohibited Plants

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:40:52 +0000

Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and marginalised communities face particular exposure t ...

A House of Cards

Fri, 06 May 2022 09:37:42 +0000

In a recently published report, ‘High compliance, a lex lata legalization for the non-medical cannabis industry’, Kenzi Riboulet-Zemouli claims to have discovered a new legal justification for regula ...

Women and Drugs in Myanmar

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:14:11 +0000

What’s the role and position of women in opium cultivation areas in Myanmar? What is life like for women who use drugs in Myanmar? This primer maps out the gendered dynamics of drug policy in Myanmar ...

The shortcomings and side effects of substance scheduling

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 14:38:27 +0000

Substance scheduling is a central function of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and a longstanding pillar of international and national drug policies. Despite the continued reliance on scheduling, the ...

The green wave hits Europe: Recent cannabis regulation initiatives in Europe

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:30:24 +0000

The War on Drugs and the denial of indigenous rights

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:31:21 +0000

As a colonial construct, the global drug control regime has undermined the rights of indigenous peoples (including the right to self determination, and to practice and revitalize their cultural tradi ...

The Future of Cannabis in the Caribbean

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 15:49:43 +0000

Two years after the presentation of the 2018 CARICOM report “Waiting to Exhale - Safeguarding our future through responsible socio-legal policy on Marijuana” at the CND, this years’ side event the or ...

A Sustainable Future for Cannabis Farmers

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:56:45 +0000

Learn how lessening the barriers for small farmers while raising them for large companies can help to steer legal cannabis markets in a more sustainable and equitable direction based on principles of ...

Position Paper of the Fair Trade Cannabis Working Group in the Caribbean

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 14:47:44 +0000

The Position Paper "For inclusive business models, well designed laws and fair(er) trade options for small-scale traditional cannabis farmers” produced by The Fair(er) Trade Cannabis Working Group ai ...

Rescheduling cannabis at the UN level

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:01:23 +0000

Following its first-ever critical review of cannabis, in January 2019 the World Health Organization's Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) issued recommendations to reschedule cannabis and cann ...

A World with Drugs: Legal Regulation through a Development Lens

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:17:04 +0000

Drugs are a development issue. Let’s stop pretending that they’re not. The so-called ‘war on drugs’ has been undermining progress towards development goals for decades. It has fuelled violence and co ...

Cannabis Regulation and Development

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 17:26:29 +0000

Significant policy shifts have led to an unprecedented boom in medical cannabis markets, while a growing number of countries are moving towards the legal regulation of adult non-medical use. This tre ...

Smokable cocaine markets in Latin America and the Caribbean

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:39:38 +0000

The smokable cocaine market was established decades ago, and is definitely not a new phenomenon. Rather than disappear, it is undergoing a slow expansion: from constituting a rather localized and iso ...

Human Rights and drug policy

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 08:22:49 +0000

The Transnational Institute (TNI) has always believed in the need to find global answers to global problems, been a strong defender of multilateralism and an advocate of a well-functioning United Nat ...

The UN Drug Control Conventions

Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:10:54 +0000

For more than ten years, TNI’s Drugs & Democracy programme has been studying the UN drug control conventions and the institutional architecture of the UN drug control regime. As we approach the 2016 ...

UN Common Position on drug policy

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 15:44:28 +0000

In November 2018, the UN System CEB adopted the ‘UN system common position supporting the implementation of the international drug control policy through effective inter-agency collaboration’, expres ...

Regulating Drugs: Resolving Conflicts with the UN Drug Control Treaty System

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:06:42 +0000

There are good reasons to legally regulate drugs markets, rather than persist with efforts to ban all non-medical uses of psychoactive substances. Regulated cannabis and coca markets are already a re ...

The Challenges of Medicinal Cannabis in Colombia

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:13:50 +0000

In July 2016, the Colombian government enacted Law 1787, which regulates the use of medicinal cannabis and its trade in the country. With this decision and a series of subsequent resolutions, Colombi ...