Tag: INCB
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UN drugs body warns US states and Uruguay over cannabis legalisation
Tuesday, 03 March 2015The United Nations has renewed its warnings to Uruguay and the US states of Colorado and Washington that their cannabis legalisation policies fail to comply with the international drug treaties. The ...
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Drug control body concerned by pot legalization in some U.S. states
Wednesday, 03 December 2014The head of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) monitoring compliance with international drug control conventions expressed concern about the moves by U.S. states to legalize marijuana. ...
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IDPC response to the 2013 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board
Thursday, 14 August 2014
The publication of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Report for 2013 took place in the context of major shifts in the drug policy landscape. Uruguay became the world’s first country to ...
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Scheduling in the international drug control system
Friday, 13 June 2014
While often viewed as an obscure technical issue, the problem of scheduling lies at the core of the functioning of the international drug control system. Scheduling – the classification of a substanc ...
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Global drug policy is still deadly and ineffective
Monday, 02 June 2014If you actually read the treaties, while they do set firm limitations on the legal, "non-medical" or "non-scientific" sale of schedule drugs — limits that Uruguay, Colorado and Washington ignored whe ...
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Uruguay not a ‘pirate’
Thursday, 17 April 2014The Uruguayan government has made a controversial move to regulate the production and sale of cannabis, believing that this will help in the fight against drug-related crime and in dealing with publi ...
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The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition
Monday, 10 March 2014
The cannabis plant has been used for spiritual, medicinal and recreational purposes since the early days of civilization. In this report the Transnational Institute and the Global Drug Policy Observa ...
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INCB speaks out against death penalty
Wednesday, 05 March 2014UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) unprecedented condemnation of the use of death penalty for drug-related offences is welcome if long overdue. The bigger question is whether INCB’s co ...
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UN: cannabis law changes pose 'very grave danger to public health'
Tuesday, 04 March 2014The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has launched a counter-offensive against moves to liberalise drug laws around the world, warning that cannabis legalisation poses a grave danger to pu ...
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Time for UN to open up dialogue on drug policy reform and end counter-productive blame-game
Monday, 03 March 2014As the UN International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) launches its annual report on Tuesday, 4 March, amidst an unprecedented crisis in the international drug control regime, leading drug policy ref ...
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INCB vs Uruguay: the art of diplomacy
Tuesday, 17 December 2013International tensions over Uruguay’s decision to regulate the cannabis market reached new levels when Raymond Yans, president of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), accused Uruguay of ...
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'Stop lying': Uruguay president chides UN official over marijuana law
Saturday, 14 December 2013Uruguay’s president has accused the head of the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, of lying and double standards, after the official claimed the country did not consult ...
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Uruguay's Prez rips into UN official over marijuana law: 'Stop lying'
Thursday, 12 December 2013Uruguay's President Mujica shot back at the president of the International Narcotics Control Board, a U.N. agency, for saying that his administration refused to meet with the agency’s officials befor ...
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Heroic Uruguay deserves a Nobel peace prize for legalising cannabis
Wednesday, 11 December 2013The response of the UN's International Narcotics Control Board to Uruguay's new drug regime has been to incant futile bromides. According to its chief Raymond Yans cannabis regulation would "endanger ...
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The US incapacity to enforce federal drug laws - and the global consequences
Thursday, 31 October 2013The US drug policy is changing, pitting states against federal law. This essay explores this inner friction of contradictory drug legislation, and what it may mean for the international drug control ...
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IDPC response to the 2012 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Despite its unprecedented nature within the history of the international drug control regime, and regardless of warnings to the contrary, the Plurinational State of Bolivia’s withdrawal from the 1961 ...
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The 2013 Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Friday, 31 May 2013Reflections upon this year’s CND are mixed. On the one hand, some states went further than ever before in openly challenging the current regime on the grounds that, after a century, it needs modernis ...
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Statement at the 2013 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)
Friday, 15 March 2013Ann Fordham of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) delivered the NGO Statement to CND Plenary under Item 8: Preparations for the high-level review of the implementation by Member States o ...
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Crack down on cannabis, world body tells U.S.
Wednesday, 13 March 2013The United States must not turn a blind eye to the recreational use of cannabis in states that liberalize drug laws, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said, urging the country to live ...
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Ex-DEA heads, U.N. panel urge feds to nullify Wash., Colo. pot laws
Tuesday, 05 March 2013Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs warned the federal government that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new laws legalizing recreational marijuana use, and a U ...
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Is the INCB dangerous to your health?
Monday, 04 March 2013In what has become a chilling annual exercise, the UN's drug watchdog the International Narcotics Control Board released its annual report today. The INCB describes itself as a "quasi-judicial" group ...
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Bolivians demand the right to chew coca leaves
Sunday, 13 January 2013A major international row with wide-ranging implications for global drugs policy has erupted over the right of Bolivia's indigenous Indian tribes to chew coca leaves, the principal ingredient in coca ...
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INCB President voices concern
Thursday, 15 November 2012The President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, has voiced grave concern about the outcome of recent referenda in the United States of America that would allow the no ...
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Governing The Global Drug Wars
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Since 1909 the international community has worked to eradicate the abuse of narcotics. A century on, the efforts are widely acknowledged to have failed, and worse, have spurred black market violence ...
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Fact Sheet: Coca leaf and the UN Drugs Conventions
Tuesday, 09 October 2012
Version in PDF 1. An ECOSOC mandated study published in 1950 as the Report of the Commission of Enquiry on the Coca Leaf, recommends to suppress “the harmful habit of chewing coca” within a few years ...
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Cannabis regulation in Uruguay: "Someone has to be first ..."
Tuesday, 17 July 2012Uruguay may be poised to become the first country to opt for a state controlled and legally regulated cannabis market for medical as well as recreational purposes, including cultivation and distribut ...
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IDPC Response to the 2011 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board
Saturday, 30 June 2012
The response to the Board’s Annual Report for 2011 is organised under 5 inter-related headings: issues surrounding the Board’s homage to the Hague Opium Convention; the flaws within its thematic chap ...
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The 2012 Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Sunday, 29 April 2012The year 2012 marks the centenary of the international drug control system and the first instance of a state being moved to denounce formally any of the UN drug control treaties. The 55th session of ...
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When the UN Won't Condemn Torture You Know Something's Very Wrong
Wednesday, 04 April 2012When the UN's drugs watchdog, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), was asked recently about its official position on torture carried out in the name of drug enforcement, one would have e ...
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INCB’s tortured logic
Monday, 02 April 2012On several recent occasions, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has refused to offer an opinion on sanctions that violate international law, such as the death penalty. The following is ...
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Narcotics watchdog turns blind eye to rights abuses
Wednesday, 28 March 2012In a world where drug offences are punishable with the death penalty, torture or arbitrary detention, we must ask how far States can go to enforce the global prohibition on drugs. According to the so ...
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Letter to the International Narcotics Control Board on Capital Punishment for Drug Offences
Wednesday, 14 March 2012On several recent occasions, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has refused to offer an opinion on sanctions that violate international law – even if those sanctions are imposed in orde ...
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Commanding general confidence?
Sunday, 11 March 2012
This note provides an overview of human rights and international law concerns raised by the 2011 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board. These include questionable legal reasoning ...
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Towards revision of the UN drug control conventions
Thursday, 08 March 2012
Recent years have seen a growing unwillingness among increasing numbers of States parties to fully adhere to a strictly prohibitionist reading of the UN drug control conventions; the 1961 Single Conv ...
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The Limits of Latitude
Wednesday, 07 March 2012
Faced with a complex range of drug related problems, a growing number of nations are exploring the development of nationally appropriate policies that shift away from the prohibition-oriented approac ...
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A Regretful Spirit
Tuesday, 28 February 2012The terms used in the preface to the 2011 INCB annual report leave no doubt as to the illness afflicting this UN body: a (deep) regret is running through its old veins. Yet again, its poison is direc ...
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The UN International Narcotics Control Board Releases 2011 Annual Report
Tuesday, 28 February 2012The UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), which monitors implementation of the global drug treaties, has trained its fire on Bolivia, this time accusing the country of threatening the in ...
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Response of Bolivia to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)
Thursday, 23 February 2012In a letter to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) the Government of Bolivia rejects the judgments made by the independent agency of the United Nations after a visit in December 2011 and ...
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Chewing over Khat prohibition
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
In the context of a fast changing and well documented market in legal highs, the case of khat (Catha edulis) provides an interesting anomaly. It is first of all a plant-based substance that undergoes ...
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Evo does not convince the INCB on coca chewing
Friday, 16 December 2011The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, yesterday asked inspectors of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) of the United Nations to support his petition to decriminalize coca leaf chewing ...
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U.S. wanted Vancouver's supervised injection site closed
Friday, 30 September 2011A diplomatic cable shows U.S. officials opposed the Insite supervised injection site in Vancouver and wanted the federal and municipal governments to shut it down. The reference to Vancouver-based In ...
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La Bolivia sotto Inquisizione
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Martin Jelsma (Transnational Institute, Amsterdam) racconta per la rubrica di Fuoriluogo sul Manifesto del 20 luglio 2011 la crociata contro la Bolivia avviata dall'INCB dell'ONU. L’articolo in versi ...
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Bolivia drops out of UN drug pact to protect its coca chewers
Monday, 18 July 2011Bolivia has presented a denunciation to the UN that seals its resignation from the United Nations 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which bans chewing the coca leaf. The denunciation responds ...
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Bolivia’s legal reconciliation with the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
Monday, 11 July 2011
On 29 June 2011, the Bolivian government denounced the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs as amended by the 1972 Protocol, indicating its intention to re-accede with a reservation allowing for ...
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Treaty guardians in distress
Monday, 11 July 2011Just when you start to see glimmers of hope that the troubled UN drug control system is opening up for a change process, its principal guardian the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) does i ...
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INCB Regrets Bolivia’s Denunciation of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
Tuesday, 05 July 2011The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) regrets the decision by the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to denounce the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by ...
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Annual report of the International Narcotics Control Board: Corruption, human rights and OST
Thursday, 03 March 2011The International Narcotics Control Board yesterday presented its annual report for 2010. Every year the Board selects a thematic issue of focus, dedicating its opening chapter to that issue. This ye ...
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INCB Report: mixed thoughts
Wednesday, 02 March 2011Today the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) released its annual report. I’ve been following the Board for many, many years now, have often criticized its narrow interpretation of the treat ...
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The need for increased transparency
Friday, 29 October 2010The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) remains one of the least transparent and most secretive of UN bodies. It meets in secret, and while agendas can now be found on the INCB’s website, no ...
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The Vienna Declaration
Tuesday, 29 June 2010The Vienna Declaration is a statement seeking to improve community health and safety by calling for the incorporation of scientific evidence into illicit drug policies. We are inviting scientists, he ...
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