Items tagged with cannabis and conventions
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| State Department’s permissive reading of international drug treaties is ‘good sign’ for marijuana rescheduling, lawyer says [07.11.2023] | Recent comments by a U.S. State Department official to a United Nations (UN) drug commission are being seen by some legal experts as “a good sign” fo ... |
| Proposals for regulated cannabis market may end up in European Court, says official [30.05.2023] | The introduction of a legal, regulated cannabis market in the Czech Republic may end up in the European Court of Justice, said drug policy coordinato ... |
| Legalise it? Czechia moving closer to regulated cannabis but obstacles remain [25.04.2023] | The Czech cabinet recently approved drug policies that include introducing a strictly regulated cannabis market. The details of the plan are still be ... |
| Legal cannabis plans breach international law – State Council [16.03.2023] | Luxembourg's plans to allow residents to grow four cannabis plants at their home have been thrown into question after the country's de-facto upper ch ... |
| Willful blindness: INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation [14.03.2023] | In its report for 2022, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the “independent, quasi-judicial expert body” that monitors the implementat ... |
| Lauterbach wants to present new proposal [14.03.2023] | Germany's Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is sticking to his legalisation plans. In the coming weeks, he will present a proposal for cannabis legalis ... |
| Willful Blindness: INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation [14.03.2023] | In its Report for 2022, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the “independent, quasi-judicial expert body” that monitors the implementat ... |
| Is legalisation a human rights imperative? [01.03.2023] | Does the cannabis legalisation planned by the German government's traffic lights coalition violate European law and relevant UN agreements? While Bav ... |
| EU is skeptical about legalizing cannabis [22.12.2022] | Health Minister Lauterbach's prestige project is one of the few issues on which the traffic light parties in Germany agree. But they are meeting with ... |
| German cannabis regulation on thin ice [28.10.2022] | The German government has released its ‘Eckpunktepapier’, a concept note laying out the key points to shape the regulation of the recreational cannab ... |
| Germany: Lauterbach outlines cannabis legalization plan [26.10.2022] | German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach presented his plans on the legalization of cannabis. He said that Germany's drug policy had to be renewed beca ... |
| Could Germany’s impending cannabis legalization prop up Canada’s flagging producers? [18.09.2022] | First-mover advantage: It’s a phrase long used by Canadian cannabis companies that have spent billions of dollars to accelerate their international s ... |
| Germany’s move to legalise cannabis slows over fears of clash with EU laws [12.09.2022] | Legal hurdles are slowing down German plans to allow the controlled distribution of cannabis among adults, with fears that a badly crafted law to leg ... |
| Britain blocks Bermuda’s cannabis legislation [06.09.2022] | Bermuda’s governor Rena Lalgie announced that the United Kingdom has blocked the Bermuda government’s controversial bid to legalize the use and produ ... |
| Towards a ‘human rights-based’ drug policy [27.07.2022] | In 2018, Malta became one of the first European countries to fully decriminalise cannabis for medicinal purposes; followed up by a broader reform to ... |
| What about the UN? Coming down off that high [12.06.2022] | Thailand is the first country in Southeast Asia to delist the cannabis plant from the government's Category 5 narcotics list, following the publicati ... |
| Government tight-lipped over UK cannabis law talks [06.06.2022] | Ministers are refusing to say if there were any breakthroughs on the stand-off with London over the Government’s flagship cannabis legislation during ... |
| Governor reserves assent on cannabis legalisation Bill [13.05.2022] | A decision by Rena Lalgie, the Governor, to reserve assent on the Government’s controversial flagship cannabis legislation plunged Bermuda into uncha ... |
| Minister denies talks being held with Britain on cannabis law [29.04.2022] | A Cabinet minister has denied that behind the scenes talks with London are the reason for a delay in sending controversial legislation on legalising ... |
| A House of Cards [29.04.2022] | In a recently published report, ‘High compliance, a lex lata legalization for the non-medical cannabis industry’, Kenzi Riboulet-Zemouli claims to ha ... |
| Cannabis legislation passes 18-6, setting up constitutional face-off [26.03.2022] | It will be legal to grow and sell cannabis in Bermuda – if controversial legislation passed in the House of Assembly gets Royal Assent from the Gover ... |
| The green wave hits Europe: Recent cannabis regulation initiatives in Europe [15.03.2022] | |
| Burt: Bermuda has ‘no intention’ of tailoring laws to fit UK cannabis conventions [22.11.2021] | Bermuda’s Government had “no intention” of tailoring its laws licensing cannabis production to fit with the UK’s conventions allowing the drug for me ... |
| Burt refuses to confirm warning from Governor over cannabis law [24.02.2021] | Premier David Burt refused to confirm whether he had held any discussions with the Governor on cannabis regulations approved by the House of Assembly ... |
| Morocco votes ‘Yes’ in historic UN vote on cannabis [02.12.2020] | The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) met to vote on several rescheduling recommendations on cannabis. Morocco provided an important “yes” vote t ... |
| Global vote on cannabis as medicine expected to be delayed again [01.03.2020] | The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was set to hold a significant vote to reclassify cannabis as a medicine, a historic change to i ... |
| In major shift, UN drug chief questions whether control treaties involving cannabis are out of date [27.02.2020] | The president of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is questioning whether the agency’s decades-old drug conventions are outdated given ... |
| Details revealed of Luxembourg joint-a-day weed plan [24.02.2020] | Luxembourg plans to allow people to buy 30 grammes of cannabis per month – enough for anywhere between one to three joints a day – according to detai ... |
| The UN Drug Control Conventions [31.12.2019] | For more than ten years, TNI’s Drugs & Democracy programme has been studying the UN drug control conventions and the institutional architecture of th ... |
| Cannabis : un projet de loi à finaliser en janvier [23.12.2019] | Le ministre de la Santé, Étienne Schneider, est décidé à soumettre courant janvier au Conseil de gouvernement un projet de loi pour légaliser le cann ... |
| Canada's cannabis policy makes it an international rebel on drug treaties [20.12.2019] | While many Canadians have focused on the supply problems and overly optimistic business projections that have marred Ottawa's marijuana legalization ... |
| La légalisation du cannabis récréatif dans les limbes [04.12.2019] | Si l'usage thérapeutique du cannabis est déjà entré dans une phase de test, son emploi «à des fins récréatives» n'est pas encore à l'ordre du jour de ... |
| UN Common Position on drug policy [01.12.2019] | In November 2018, the UN System CEB adopted the ‘UN system common position supporting the implementation of the international drug control policy thr ... |
| Regulating Drugs: Resolving Conflicts with the UN Drug Control Treaty System [29.11.2019] | There are good reasons to legally regulate drugs markets, rather than persist with efforts to ban all non-medical uses of psychoactive substances. Re ... |
| ACT dope laws ‘flout UN treaty statutes’ [28.10.2019] | The UN narcotics agency has warned that the ACT Labor government’s move to legalise cannabis in the national capital had put Australia in violation o ... |
| How Canada's cannabis legalization is shaping laws elsewhere [17.10.2019] | Ever since Canada became the first major country to legalize marijuana for adults a year ago, other nations have been paying attention. The small Sou ... |
| A global revolution in attitudes towards cannabis is under way [29.08.2019] | Uruguay paved the way when it legalised cannabis in 2013. But it is the reform in Canada, a G7 member, that has done most to heighten international t ... |
| Luxembourg legal pot plan violates UN rules [24.07.2019] | Luxembourg met a possible hurdle in legalising cannabis as a parliamentary question brought to light that the current plans are in violation of inter ... |
| Légalisation du cannabis : le Luxembourg enfume l’ONU [20.06.2019] | La volonté du Grand-Duché de légaliser le cannabis récréatif est clairement opposée à l’engagement pris pour limiter l’usage de cette substance à des ... |
| What is required for Jamaica to export its hi-grade ganja [11.02.2019] | Jamaica’s decriminalisation of ganja in 2015 brought with it many expectations, one being the ability to export its hi-grade herb. With a relatively ... |
| Legalization of recreational marijuana will result in international sanctions – PM [30.11.2018] | St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) cannot legalize marijuana for recreational purposes without facing sanctions internationally. And persons who say ... |
| Connecting the dots... [26.10.2018] | How can we resolve the tensions between current drug control policies and states’ human rights obligations? The international human rights framework ... |
| Russia warns Canada cannabis legalization will lead to increased trafficking [23.10.2018] | Russia has denounced Canada's cannabis legalization, calling it "unacceptable" and contrary to international laws, and saying it will lead to increas ... |
| Taking stock of a decade of failed drug policies [22.10.2018] | Ten years ago, UN member states set themselves a target ‘to eliminate or reduce significantly and measurably’ the illicit cultivation, production, tr ... |
| Canada's legalization of marijuana could hurt farmers in poorer countries [17.10.2018] | For decades poor farmers in countries like Jamaica and Morocco have risked the wrath of governments to grow cannabis as a cash crop. But as Canada be ... |
| UN drugs board slams Canada cannabis legalization [17.10.2018] | After recreational marijuana became legal in Canada, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) slammed the decision in a statement calling the ... |
| IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2017 [08.10.2018] | In the approach to the 2019 Ministerial Segment and its review of international drug control, the INCB’s Annual Report for 2017 is arguably of specia ... |
| Seek drug reform within international law: Tom Blickman [01.10.2018] | Dating back to the latter part of 1800s, precisely in 1894-95, the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission consisting of medical experts of Indian and British o ... |
| Caricom Commission: Marijuana laws too draconian [08.07.2018] | The Caricom Regional Commission on Marijuana has labelled existing regional marijuana laws as draconian and one which carries with it inappropriate c ... |
| Russia cites UN body to blast Canada’s cannabis legalization [28.06.2018] | Opponents of the Trudeau government’s plan to legalize marijuana in Canada are getting some unexpected if, perhaps, unwelcome support from the Russia ... |
| INCB hearing on the use of cannabis for medical and non-medical purposes [07.05.2018] | The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) held a meeting with civil society representatives on the “the use of cannabis for medical and non-me ... |
| In bid to intimidate Canada on cannabis regulation, INCB is reckless and wrong [04.05.2018] | On May 1, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland appeared before the Canadian Senate’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International T ... |
| Withdrawing from drug treaties over legal pot would be a ‘mistake’: Freeland [01.05.2018] | Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is defending the Liberal government’s decision not to withdraw from three international drug treaties, whi ... |
| Senate Foreign Affairs Cmte won’t have time to examine how cannabis bill will affect international treaties [09.04.2018] | The Senate committees are under a ‘tight timeline' to review the cannabis bill, and Conservatives say they could save major cannabis amendments for t ... |
| Canada’s next steps on cannabis and the UN drug treaties [29.03.2018] | Ever since the introduction of Bill C-45, questions have been swirling concerning Canada’s position relative to the UN drug control conventions: conv ... |
| Balancing Treaty Stability and Change [22.03.2018] | Legal tensions are growing within the international drug control regime as increasing numbers of member states move towards or seriously consider leg ... |
| Regulating Cannabis in Accord with International Law: Options to Explore [16.03.2018] | As a growing number of countries move towards legal regulation for non-medical cannabis, governments are pushing the boundaries of the three UN drug ... |
| Cannabis Regulation and the UN Drug Control Treaties [07.03.2018] | Significant cannabis policy reforms are taking place that pose considerable challenges to the international legal framework for drug control, and beg ... |
| Uruguay leads world in cannabis regulation but US law intrudes [28.02.2018] | Uruguay was the first country in the world to fully regulate the cannabis market and so break free from a global prohibitionist regime that has preva ... |
| If the U.S. legalizes marijuana, what happens to its international drug treaties? [10.01.2018] | When Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a Barack Obama-era federal policy that allowed recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington, he di ... |
| Yes, legalizing marijuana breaks treaties. We can deal with that [11.12.2017] | Buzzing in the background of Canada’s debate on cannabis legalization is the issue of the three UN drug control treaties, and what to do with them. T ... |
| Guyana to host consultations on marijuana use [03.11.2017] | Guyana will host a consultation on the use of marijuana as part of the efforts by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments to conduct in-depth resea ... |
| IDPC contribution for the pre-review of CBD and Tramadol at the 39th WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence [01.11.2017] | The Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) of the World Health Organization (WHO) will hold its 39th meeting from 6th to 10th November 2017 in Ge ... |
| IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2016 [30.09.2017] | The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Annual Report for 2016 is, as usual, a mixed bag of high quality data and sometimes doubtful politic ... |
| Uruguay sets path for Canada on marijuana legalization within international treaties [06.06.2017] | Uruguay‘s envoy to Ottawa says his small South American country has opened up some breathing room for marijuana legalization within international tre ... |
| Ottawa urged to withdraw from UN drug treaties ahead of pot legalization [02.06.2017] | Opposition parties and international legal experts are calling on Ottawa to say what it plans to do about three UN drug treaties that pose a conundru ... |
| Ganja lobby wrong [15.05.2017] | The Ministry of Health (MoH) of Jamaica has indicated that it has begun taking steps to change the schedule class of marijuana to effect amendments t ... |
| Seiveright urges ganja farmers to look beyond ‘so so weed’ [19.01.2017] | Delano Seiveright, a director of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), says that ganja growers should look beyond farming “so so weed” in seeking t ... |
| Cannabis and Cannabis Resin [13.10.2016] | The scheduling under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs assumes a scientific justification. However, cannabis and cannabis resin have never been ... |
| Canada faces choice on international drug treaties over legalized pot [02.10.2016] | As Canada moves forward with its plan to legalize marijuana, government officials have at least one international conundrum to sort out: what to do a ... |
| Dr Gandhi to move Bill to legalise recreational drugs [12.07.2016] | Patiala MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi said that he was working on an amendment to Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS) Act 1985 of India to leg ... |
| UNGASS 2016: A Broken or B-r-o-a-d Consensus? [05.07.2016] | A special session of the General Assembly took place in April revealing a growing divergence in the global drug policy landscape. Difficult negotiati ... |
| Cannabis Regulation and the UN Drug Treaties [16.06.2016] | As jurisdictions enact reforms creating legal access to cannabis for purposes other than exclusively “medical and scientific,” tensions surrounding t ... |
| New Report Offers Strategies for Regulating Cannabis in Ways that Uphold and Modernize International Law [16.06.2016] | As an increasing number of jurisdictions consider whether and how to legalize and regulate access to cannabis, tensions are growing between these ini ... |
| Legal cannabis cultivation would cut violent crime: report [30.05.2016] | Legalizing cannabis cultivation and trade could reduce violent crime related to illegal cultivation and could therefore protect human rights, accordi ... |
| Canada's marijuana legalization plan flouts 3 UN drug conventions [16.05.2016] | The federal government's plan to legalize marijuana contravenes Canada's adherence to the UN drug control conventions, according to a commentary in t ... |
| Rethinking the global war on drugs [25.04.2016] | The U.S. is in the untenable position of violating the existing treaties — now that four states have legalized the sale of recreational marijuana. Th ... |
| TNI at UNGASS 2016: reports from New York [20.04.2016] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) attended the 30th session of the UN General Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem in New York from the ... |
| Cannabis and the Conventions: UNGASS and Beyond [19.04.2016] | With an increasing number of jurisdictions enacting or contemplating reforms creating legal access to cannabis for purposes other than exclusively "m ... |
| Weed and the UN: Why international drug laws won't stop legalization [19.04.2016] | Under the outcome document for UNGASS that was drafted by diplomats in Vienna and formally adopted at UN headquarters in New York, weed still remains ... |
| Trouble in Europe's pot paradise [18.04.2016] | Though the Dutch have struck a compromise with international treaties that shows great results for reducing harm for drug users, the approach has lar ... |
| Cannabis Science and Policy Summit 2016 [16.04.2016] | With California and other states likely to vote on full cannabis legalization, decisions made in 2016 may well shape the future of cannabis policy fo ... |
| Canada on drugs at the UN: Standing up for a long-overdue policy shift [12.04.2016] | The applause persisted until the chair of the session eventually gavelled it to an end. The occasion? Canada’s statement at the UN Commission on Narc ... |
| Will UNGASS 2016 be the beginning of the end for the ‘war on drugs’? [16.03.2016] | In April 2016, the UN will dedicate, for the third time in its history, a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) to discuss global ... |
| The history of cannabis and international control [02.03.2016] | This timeline draws on The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition, a report that described the history of international control, how cannabis was i ... |
| UNGASS 2016: Prospects for Treaty Reform and UN System-Wide Coherence on Drug Policy [29.02.2016] | This paper explores key lessons from the 1990 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Drug Abuse (UNGASS 1990) and the 1998 Special ... |
| The Heemskerk Declaration [20.01.2016] | In a global meeting small scale farmers of cannabis, coca and opium from 14 countries in Heemskerk, the Netherlands, discussed their contribution to ... |
| Legalizing pot in Canada will run afoul of global treaties, Trudeau warned [04.01.2016] | The Liberal government will have to do substantial work on the international stage before it can follow through on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pr ... |
| Govt urged to secure share of international ganja market [15.11.2015] | President of the Westmoreland Hemp and Ganja Farmers Association Ras Iyah is urging the Government of Jamaica to "align" with other countries to secu ... |
| Oregon marijuana legalization challenges US drug policy [02.10.2015] | Oregon joined Colorado and Washington in implementing a commercial cannabis market. Alaska, which also legalized marijuana through a ballot initiativ ... |
| The White House blacklisted Bolivia for growing coca while US states sell legal weed [15.09.2015] | The US has "decertified" Bolivia over what it calls a failure to comply with the UN drug control conventions, despite recent data showing the country ... |
| Decriminalise cannabis; consider its commercial benefits - Akrasi-Sarpong [28.07.2015] | Yaw Akrasi-Sarpong, Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board, called for an open debate with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), to join in ... |
| Lib Dem leadership candidate Norman Lamb calls for cannabis legalisation [31.05.2015] | The Liberal Democrat leadership candidate Norman Lamb has called for the UK to legalise, regulate and tax the sale of cannabis. The former care minis ... |
| Jamaica to lead charge to change int'l treaties on marijuana [17.03.2015] | Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Anthony Hylton, says Jamaica intends to lead a charge in the United Nations to effect changes to the i ... |
| UN drugs body warns US states and Uruguay over cannabis legalisation [03.03.2015] | The United Nations has renewed its warnings to Uruguay and the US states of Colorado and Washington that their cannabis legalisation policies fail to ... |
| US official cautions Jamaica on ganja legalisation [29.01.2015] | The U.S. Government has signalled discomfort with Jamaica's move to decriminalise marijuana for specific uses. According to assistant secretary, Will ... |
| Illegal drugs laws: Clearing a 50-year-old obstacle to research [26.01.2015] | The United Nations drug control conventions of 1960 and 1971 and later additions have inadvertently resulted in perhaps the greatest restrictions of ... |
| Has the US just called for unilateral interpretation of multilateral obligations? [17.12.2014] | These are interesting times for drug law reform, which, as it gathers pace, is asking important questions of international law. A UN General Assembly ... |
| Drug control body concerned by pot legalization in some U.S. states [03.12.2014] | The head of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) monitoring compliance with international drug control conventions expressed concern abou ... |
| «Das Cannabis-Verbot bringt nichts» [01.12.2014] | In Deutschland hat der Schildowerkreis, eine Vereinigung von mehr als 100 Strafrechtsprofessorinnen und Strafrechtsprofessoren, vor zwei Wochen das V ... |
| Fatal attraction: Brownfield's flexibility doctrine and global drug policy reform [18.11.2014] | State-level cannabis reforms, which gathered steam this month, have exposed the inability of the United States to abide by the terms of the legal bed ... |
| The UN really wishes that voters in Alaska and Oregon hadn’t legalized weed [13.11.2014] | The director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Yury Fedotov, said that state-level marijuana legalization initiatives in the U.S. are ... |
| A top UN official is not happy about US states legalizing weed [13.11.2014] | The UN's top narcotics official said on Wednesday that recent votes by US states to legalize marijuana have put America in deeper violation of the in ... |
| U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [12.11.2014] | Moves by some U.S. states to legalize marijuana are not in line with international drugs conventions, the U.N. anti-narcotics chief said, adding he w ... |
| How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is making the world a better place [16.10.2014] | No pressure, Colorado and Washington, but the world is scrutinizing your every move. That was the take-home message of an event today at the Brooking ... |
| Marijuana legalization is an opportunity to modernize international drug treaties [14.10.2014] | Two U.S. states have legalized recreational marijuana, and more may follow; the Obama administration has conditionally accepted these experiments. Su ... |
| La légalisation du cannabis est inévitable selon un expert en politique des drogues [24.07.2014] | La légalisation du cannabis fait peu à peu son chemin dans le monde, suscitant un débat politique qui dure depuis l'an dernier au Maroc. Après que l’ ... |
| Scheduling in the international drug control system [13.06.2014] | While often viewed as an obscure technical issue, the problem of scheduling lies at the core of the functioning of the international drug control sys ... |
| Going to pot: legalised cannabis edges nearer in west after US states end ban [22.05.2014] | Legalisation of cannabis is making slow but unstoppable progress across much of the developed world, many experts believe, following the end of prohi ... |
| Internationaal recht en cannabis [14.05.2014] | Voor het rondetafelgesprek over het rapport: ‘Internationaal recht en cannabis’ op 15 mei 2014 voor de Vaste Commissie voor Veiligheid en Justitie in ... |
| Uruguay not a ‘pirate’ [17.04.2014] | The Uruguayan government has made a controversial move to regulate the production and sale of cannabis, believing that this will help in the fight ag ... |
| The Transnational Institute interviewed by The Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum [20.03.2014] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) released a new report this month called The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition’. This report will be presente ... |
| New report: UN stuck in denial over cannabis regulation [10.03.2014] | The current trend towards legal regulation of the cannabis market has become irreversible and requires an urgent dialogue by UN member states on the ... |
| 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 ... |
| INCB speaks out against death penalty [05.03.2014] | UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) unprecedented condemnation of the use of death penalty for drug-related offences is welcome if long ... |
| Time for UN to open up dialogue on drug policy reform and end counter-productive blame-game [03.03.2014] | As the UN International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) launches its annual report on Tuesday, 4 March, amidst an unprecedented crisis in the internat ... |
| INCB vs Uruguay: the art of diplomacy [17.12.2013] | International tensions over Uruguay’s decision to regulate the cannabis market reached new levels when Raymond Yans, president of the International N ... |
| 'Stop lying': Uruguay president chides UN official over marijuana law [14.12.2013] | Uruguay’s president has accused the head of the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, of lying and double standards, after ... |
| Uruguay's Prez rips into UN official over marijuana law: 'Stop lying' [12.12.2013] | Uruguay's President Mujica shot back at the president of the International Narcotics Control Board, a U.N. agency, for saying that his administration ... |
| Expert Seminar: Costs and benefits of cannabis regulation models in Europe [30.10.2013] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) organized an expert seminar on Costs and Benefits of Cannabis Regulation Models in Europe in Amsterdam, The Netherl ... |
| The 2013 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [31.05.2013] | Reflections 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 th ... |
| The drug policy reform agenda in the Americas [30.04.2013] | Latin America has emerged at the vanguard of efforts to promote debate on drug policy reform. For decades, Latin American governments largely followe ... |
| Life after cannabis prohibition: The city announces its ambitions [15.03.2013] | The tide is turning against the criminalisation of cannabis. Copenhagen wants to join the movement with a three-year trial to decriminalise the drug. ... |
| Cannabis and the 1961 Convention [12.03.2013] | Over the past years, there have been some soft and hard defections on cannabis control. It is now time to discuss alternatives that are based on fact ... |
| Ex-DEA heads, U.N. panel urge feds to nullify Wash., Colo. pot laws [05.03.2013] | Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs warned the federal government that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new l ... |
| The great experiment [23.02.2013] | A whiff of change is in the air regarding drug control policy. Officials in two American states, Colorado and Washington, are pondering how to implem ... |
| Towards a ceasefire [22.02.2013] | Partial reforms have their limits. Most drug crime is not cannabis-related. Moving from punishment to harm reduction may help drug users, but it leav ... |
| INCB President voices concern [15.11.2012] | The President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, has voiced grave concern about the outcome of recent referenda in th ... |
| U.S. marijuana vote may have snowball effect in Latin America [07.11.2012] | Voters in Colorado and Washington state who approved the recreational use of marijuana Tuesday sent a salvo from the ballot box that will ricochet ar ... |
| Governing The Global Drug Wars [23.10.2012] | Since 1909 the international community has worked to eradicate the abuse of narcotics. A century on, the efforts are widely acknowledged to have fail ... |
| The International Drug Control Treaties [31.07.2012] | The way the world looks at drug control is changing. There has been a growing awareness of the issue for the past decade, as well as increasing publi ... |
| Cannabis regulation in Uruguay: "Someone has to be first ..." [17.07.2012] | Uruguay may be poised to become the first country to opt for a state controlled and legally regulated cannabis market for medical as well as recreati ... |
| Drug policy reform in practice [14.08.2009] | The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with the ... |
| Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15.03.2009] | This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 2 ... |
| An Overview of Cannabis Policy [31.10.2008] | On October 2, 2008, the Beckley Foundation launched in the House of Lords its Global Cannabis Commission Report, an authoritative guide to the effect ... |
| Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate [01.09.2008] | 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 margin ... |
| Costa in Amsterdam [02.06.2008] | The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Costa, recently visited Amsterdam on 24 April. Accompanied by some officials of the Net ... |
| Cannabis resolutions at the 2008 CND [29.03.2008] | At the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in March 2008 in Vienna three resolutions on cannabis were tabled. They were all clearly against 'lenient p ... |
| The INCB and cannabis [02.03.2008] | Where legal ambiguities and disagreement persist around cannabis policies, the INCB continues to make narrow legal interpretations of what is allowed ... |
| Invitational Conference Cannabis Policy [12.12.2007] | TNI co-signed a letter that was sent to the Dutch Prime Minister and relevant parliamentary commissions, stressing the need for an active Dutch invol ... |
| "Achterdeur open U" [09.02.2006] | Het Nederlandse cannabisbeleid verkeert al decennia in een internationaalrechtelijke schemerzone, stelt Martin Jelsma van het Transnational Institute ... |
| Global Trends. Lessons from Vienna [20.06.2003] | Martin Jelsma analysed the 2003 UNGASS mid-term review and drew some important conclusions for the 10-year review in 2008: "Alliances have to be cons ... |
| Cannabis control [01.03.2003] | Cannabis like other illicit drugs is so-called ‘controlled drug’. A closer look makes clear that these drugs are in fact far from being ‘controlled’. ... |
| European Cannabis Policies Under Attack [01.04.2002] | A strong attack against the European practice of 'leniency' regarding cannabis use and possession took place at the United Nations Commission on Narc ... |
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