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The Future of Cannabis in the Caribbean
Side event at the 64th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Two years after the presentation of the 2018 CARICOM report “Waiting to Exhale - Safeguarding our future through responsible socio-legal policy on Marijuana” at the CND, this years’ side event the or ...
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Stimulant drug use in Latin America and Asia
Users, markets and harm reduction approaches
Problematic use of stimulant drugs, with a particular focus on smokeable cocaine and methamphetamine, still lack of specific technical guides for effective health and social interventions. This sessi ...
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Supply side harm reduction
Evidence shows that most drug control measures taken to limit the supply of plants used for illicit purposes are not only ineffective in reducing the total amount of drugs available on the global dru ...
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Cannabis and the Conventions: UNGASS and Beyond
Cannabis is clearly the elephant in the room at UNGASS
Conference Room B, United Nations Headquarters, April 20, 2016With an increasing number of jurisdictions enacting or contemplating reforms creating legal access to cannabis for purposes other than exclusively "medical and scientific," tensions regarding the dru ...
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Cannabis Science and Policy Summit 2016
New York City, April 17-18, 2016With California and other states likely to vote on full cannabis legalization, decisions made in 2016 may well shape the future of cannabis policy for a generation or more. Scientists, policy thinker ...
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The Heemskerk Declaration
Final declaration of the Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants
In a global meeting small scale farmers of cannabis, coca and opium from 14 countries in Heemskerk, the Netherlands, discussed their contribution to the United Nations General Assembly Special Sessio ...
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Supporting the process towards UNGASS 2016
Cartagena (Colombia), November 22-24, 2015The Cartagena Dialogue – organized by four governments and four civil society organizations, with the participation of 79 official and non-governmental delegates from three continents – was designed ...
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Civil society urges EU leadership on drug policy ahead of UNGASS
“Budapest Group” releases recommendations on EU engagement at 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS)
Budapest, July 21, 2015The Budapest Group is a network of European NGOs working in the field of drug policy reform, including Harm Reduction International, the Global Drug Policy Program of the Open Society Foundations (OS ...
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Exploring the land-drugs nexus
Land is one of the key factors of production in the drug economy
European Development Days, June 4, 2015"For many communities in Myanmar who grow opium, for them opium is not the problem, it is the solution to their problems," said local project consultant, Tom Kramer, from the Transnational Institute. ...
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Caribbean Drug Policy Dialogue 2015 San Juan (Puerto Rico)
San Juan (Puerto Rico), April 23-25, 2015Focusing on the Caribbean region, the thirteenth Informal Drug Policy Dialogue in Latin America, was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from 23-25 April 2015, at the initiative of TNI (Transnational Inst ...
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