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How does a Cannabis Social Club work?
A visit to Trekt Uw Plant in Antwerp
Balázs Mészáros & Lena Oddball (HCLU)Monday, February 18, 2013
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What was originally a small group of friends, has become a feasible alternative to the cannabis black market in the north of Belgium. Our guest author guides us through Antwerp’s cannabis social club. Belgium legalised the possession and use of small amounts of cannabis for personal use a decade ago. Since that time, smokers can not only carry up to 3 grams in public but can also legally grow one plant per person at home. -
Insite - Not Just Injecting, But Connecting
The only legally-operating injecting facility in North America
Peter Sarosi, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU)Thursday, January 17, 2013
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Last year the HCLU’s video advocacy group travelled to Vancouver, to make a film about Insite, the only legally-operating injecting facility in North America. When we arrived at Hastings Street, in Vancouver's downtown Eastside, where Insite is located, we were taken aback by the magnitude of the street drug scene we found there.Schijnheilig bezwaar van Nederland tegen het kauwen van coca bladeren
Nederland keert zich tegen het herintreden van Bolivia in het VN verdrag met een voorbehoud die het traditionele gebruik van coca toe staat in het land
Martin Jelsma Tom BlickmanTransnational Institute (TNI)
Vrijdag, 11 januari 2013
De Nederlandse regering heeft bij de Verenigde Naties bezwaar aangetekend tegen de herintreding van Bolivia in het Enkelvoudig Verdrag inzake verdovende middelen uit 1961. Bolivia was vorig jaar uitgetreden en wil opnieuw toetreden met een voorbehoud die het traditionele inheemse gebruik van coca in het land een internationale legale dekking geeft.> Zie ook: Wij zijn schijnheilig over coca kauwen, NRC Handelsblad Opinie, 17 januari 2013
READ MORE...Objections to Bolivia's reservation to allow coca chewing in the UN conventions
The United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy and Canada notified their objections
Tom BlickmanFriday, January 4, 2013
Sweden joined the United States and the United Kingdom in objecting to the re-accession of Bolivia to the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs after Bolivia had denounced the convention and asked for re-accession with a reservation that allows for the traditional age-old ancestral habit of coca chewing in the country. Italy and Canada also objected, but the objection of Sweden is particularly disturbing.Foglia di coca, la congiura degli ipocriti, versione in italiana
READ MORE...Portugal: Ten years after decriminalization
Drug use did not skyrocket in the years following decriminalization
Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU)Monday, November 26, 2012
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In 2001, a small European country, Portugal, took a brave step, changing its drug policies and refocussing its efforts away from arresting and criminalising drug users, towards smart public health interventions. How did the political establishment of a Catholic-Conservative country come to such an agreement about decriminalization? How does the system work? Is it effective?UN International Guiding Principles on Alternative Development: Part II
Coletta YoungersWednesday, November 21, 2012
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The International Guiding Principles on Alternative Development approved last week at an international meeting in Lima, Peru, represents a lost opportunity to promote equitable economic development in some of the world’s poorest regions. The final document on the Guiding Principles bears little resemblance to the document that was originally drafted in November 2011 in Thailand by a group of more than 100 governmental and non-governmental experts.An opportunity lost
Guiding Principles on Alternative Development and the ICAD Conference in Lima Peru
Pien MetaalMonday, November 19, 2012
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At the International Conference on Alternative Development (ICAD), held in Lima from 14 to 16 November, the Peruvian Government supported by the UNODC claimed that currently in Peru the surface planted with alternative development crops is superior to the amount of coca, used for the production of cocaine. Allegedly, the 80 thousand hectares with cocoa and coffee have successfully replaced an illicit economy, or prevented it to establish itself.The will of the voters
Colorado and Washington have put legal marijuana on the map
John WalshTuesday, November 13, 2012
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Now that the voters in Colorado and Washington have approved marijuana legalization initiatives, attention has turned quickly to questions surrounding implementation—and in particular to speculation over how the federal government might react. This is entirely understandable, since it is no secret that the newly approved state initiatives conflict with federal law.Disproportionate penalties for drug offenses in Mexico
Study shows that federal resources are dedicated to the investigation, prosecution, and conviction of minor drug-related cases
Catalina Pérez Correa Kristel MucinoMonday, November 12, 2012
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The story of the Mexican drug war has generally focused on the violence perpetrated by drug cartels and the apparent inability to bring so many criminals to justice. Unfortunately—while it’s true many have evaded justice—there remain many more people who use drugs and those with very low levels of involvement in the drug trade, who have been swept up in recent crackdowns.Victims of the Latin American war on drugs make the case for reform
Kristel MucinoSaturday, November 10, 2012
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Latin American drug policies have made no dent in the drug trade; instead they have taken a tremendous toll on human lives. In 2009, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) embarked on an ambitious project to document the real impact of Latin America’s “war on drugs” and to show its human cost through the video testimonies of the victims themselves.Page 10 of 26
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Balancing Treaty Stability and Change
Inter se modification of the UN drug control conventions to facilitate cannabis regulation
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The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition
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