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Latin American leaders chart course for drug policy debate
Coletta YoungersInternational Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
Wednesday, June 19, 2013This year’s annual General Assembly meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS), which brings together the hemisphere’s foreign ministers, marked a milestone in the Latin American drug policy debate. For the first time, the drug policy issue was the primary theme of a hemispheric meeting and, in a closed-door meeting of the foreign ministers, a process was laid out for continuing the discussion, culminating in a Special Session of the General Assembly to be held in 2014.
Latin American leaders chart course for drug policy debate
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Deficiencies in financial oversight enable money laundering
After nearly 25 year of failed efforts, experts still ponder how to implement an anti-money laundering regime that works
Tom BlickmanWednesday, May 15, 2013
READ MORE...In July 1989, the leaders of the economic powers assembled at the G7 Paris summit decided to establish a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to counter money laundering as an effective strategy against drug trafficking by criminal ‘cartels’. However, since the inception of the international anti-money laundering (AML) regime there is a growing awareness that the regime is not working as well as intended.
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Cannabis to substitute crack
A step by step rehabilitation
Tom Blickman Amira ArmentaMonday, April 22, 2013
READ MORE...The mayor of Bogota has recently proposed a pilot scheme with crack cocaine addicts to explore the substitution of crack made of cocaine base paste (or bazuco as it is called in Colombia) by marijuana. The substitution treatment plan will include 15 problematic users from the marginalized Bronx area who are already receiving health assistance of the CAMAD operating in that sector of the city. The treatment will last approximately eight months, after which the results will be evaluated.
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Drug policy must return to focus on public health, SPP panelists say
School of Public Policy (Central European University)
Budapest, April 11, 2013
READ MORE...Global drug policy must move away from stigmatizing and criminalizing users and focus on the public health issues at stake, panelists concluded at the third drug policy debate hosted by CEU’s School of Public Policy and the Open Society Foundations’ Global Drug Policy Program on April 11. Panelists expressed hope that the current momentum in this direction will result in significant changes at the United Nations drug policy summit slated for 2016.
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Addicted to punishment
Penalties in the war on drugs more severe than for murder and rape
Rodrigo UprimnyTuesday, April 9, 2013
READ MORE...Over the past several decades, Latin America has seen penalties for drug crimes—even low-level selling—skyrocket. And in many Latin American countries, non-violent drug offenses receive significantly longer sentences than many violent crimes, such as homicide and rape. A new study of criminal legislation explores this phenomenon in seven Latin American countries (Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, and Argentina).
The present continuous of cannabis clubs in Catalonia
The complexity of the issue and the lack of specific regulations mean that cases unprotected by the law still keep appearing
Sustainable Drug Policies CommissionSaturday, 30 March, 2013
READ MORE...The exponential proliferation of the number of associations, clubs and other groups that distribute cannabis among their members and create new spaces for socialising, has surprised even the most optimistic advocates of more reasonable drug policies. In a short time, and in spite of those in government, civil society has provided a response to a problem that realpolitik has been unable to tackle.
Drug policy reform is breaking through at the international level
Alternative models are being introduced and leaders are demanding an international debate
Kasia Malinowska-SempruchMonday, March 25, 2013
READ MORE...Change is in the air ... But the pace could be quickened a bit. While the international policymaking body on drugs has long been stuck in neutral, there are signs that alternative voices are finally breaking through. This year's UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs featured some progress though its modest advances are only remarkable by comparison to a dismal past.
Statement at the 2013 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)
We cannot afford to miss the opportunity to take stock of the negative consequences of the current system
Friday, March 15, 2013
READ MORE...Ann 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 of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an integrated and balanced strategy to counter the world drug problem.
Is the INCB dangerous to your health?
Five ways the UN's drug watchdog fails on health and human rights
Daniel Wolfe, director of the International Harm Reduction Development Program, Open Society FoundationsTuesday, March 5, 2013
READ MORE...In 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 of experts charged with monitoring compliance with international drug control treaties, but the report's drug war bias and egregious omissions makes us wonder who is judging the judges.
How does a Cannabis Social Club work?
A visit to Trekt Uw Plant in Antwerp
Balázs Mészáros & Lena Oddball (HCLU)Monday, February 18, 2013
READ MORE...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.
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