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			<title>Willful blindness: INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ 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 ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 13:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Germany: Flirting with Plan B?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Two articles published this week, in Der Tagesspiegel and LTO, throw cold water on expectations that the European Commission could give green light to Germany’s ‘Interpretationslösung’ to justify its ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 20:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>German cannabis regulation on thin ice</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The German government has released its ‘Eckpunktepapier’, a concept note laying out the key points to shape the regulation of the recreational cannabis market. Presenting the key points at a press co ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 20:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Statement on the UN Common Position and Task Team</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Between 12 - 16 April 2021, the 64th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) took place in Vienna. Here you can find the statement by the Institute for Policy Studies / Transnational Ins ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>A new EU Drug Strategy is being repared by the German presidency</title>
			<link>https://undrugcontrol.info/en/weblog/item/9939-a-new-eu-drug-strategy-is-being-repared-by-the-german-presidency</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) sent an open letter to the members of the Horizontal Working Party on Drugs (HDG) to reject the EU Drugs Agenda. The German EU presidency is now in cha ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2020 21:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Switzerland set to launch cannabis pilot projects 2021</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ In September 2020, the Swiss parliament adopted a modification to the Federal Act on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances. The change provides a legal framework for a pilot project that would see le ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>The EU should not fight drugs but reduce harms</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The European Commission has published its new EU drug strategy (now called the Drugs Agenda), which is part of a wider Security Union strategy entitled “Delivering on a Security Union: initiatives to ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>The war on drugs is a war on human rights</title>
			<link>https://undrugcontrol.info/en/weblog/item/9730-the-war-on-drugs-is-a-war-on-human-rights</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[ One of the most appalling aspects of the war on drugs is that it can legitimise not just human rights abuses, but a complete rejection of human rights as a principle. The degree to which this pervers ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2020 13:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Parliament of Ghana passes historic new drug law, paving the way for a West African approach</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ On Friday, 20th March, the Parliament of Ghana passed the Narcotics Control Commission Bill into law. This brought great excitement to many who have been following the legislative process since 2015, ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 14:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>The ‘deja vú’ of aerial crop spraying in Colombia</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ At the end of 2019 the government of Iván Duque presented a draft decree to resume the spraying of drug crops used for illicit purposes. It argued that spraying is the only instrument to curb the inc ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 07:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Growers' voices at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ From 16 to 18 October 2019, representatives of member states, intergovernmental organisations, and civil society attended the 6th Intersessional Meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. On 17 Oct ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Nowhere to hide</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Traditionally, the UN and governments have measured progress in drug policy in terms of flows and scale; principally the numbers of people arrested, hectares of drug crops eradicated and the amounts  ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>INCB stronger than ever before on decriminalisation, capital punishment &amp; extrajudicial killings</title>
			<link>https://undrugcontrol.info/en/weblog/item/9228-incb-stronger-than-ever-before-on-decriminalisation-capital-punishment-extrajudicial-killings</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The INCB dedicated one of its latest series of Alerts, from June 2019, to the issue of ‘State responses to drug-related criminality’, covering decriminalisation, proportionate sentencing, the death p ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Medical cannabis moving ahead in Thailand, but who stands to benefit?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ 25th December of 2018 was a historical day for cannabis enthusiasts in Thailand. The (interim) Parliament voted, 166-to-0, to pass new amendments to the country’s Narcotics Act. These legislative cha ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2019 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Migrants and traditional use</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ For the past several years, Fundación ICEERS, with the support of allied organisations such as the Transnational Institute (TNI), has been assisting in the legal defense of people with a migrant back ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Major UN report condemns punitive drugs policies</title>
			<link>https://undrugcontrol.info/en/weblog/item/9065-major-un-report-condemns-punitive-drugs-policies</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A new report from the United Nations System Coordination Task Team describes punitive drug policies as “ineffective in reducing drug trafficking or in addressing non-medical drug use and supply”. It  ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2019 12:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>The UN Chief Executives Board unanimously endorses decriminalisation of people who use drugs</title>
			<link>https://undrugcontrol.info/en/weblog/item/9064-the-un-chief-executives-board-unanimously-endorses-decriminalisation-of-people-who-use-drugs</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The Chief Executives Board of the UN, representing 31 UN agencies, has adopted a common position on drug policy that endorses decriminalisation of possession and use. This comes just days before a ke ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2019 11:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>UN drugs watchdog still in denial over cannabis</title>
			<link>https://undrugcontrol.info/en/weblog/item/8974-un-drugs-watchdog-still-in-denial-over-cannabis</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Today, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) – the UN watchdog on compliance with the international drug control conventions – has released its latest position on cannabis which largely wa ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Tramadol: Three cheers for the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ In November 2018, the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) held its 41st meeting in Vienna. The ECDD is a committee that operates under the auspices of the World Health Organisation (WHO), and  ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 13:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Drug law reform comes to Mexico</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Last month, Mexico’s Supreme Court handed down two decisions that effectively overturned Mexico’s longstanding ban on the personal use of marijuana. The Court affirmed the power of the individual—rat ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2018 14:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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