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Nederland wietland ingehaald door Uruguay
NOS Op 3 (The Netherlands)
Thursday, August 1, 2013
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Wij hebben het er al jaren over, Uruguay doet 't gewoon: wiet wordt er legaal. Niet alleen de verkoop, ook de productie. Daarmee is Uruguay het eerste land ter wereld waar wiet legaal is, en zijn wij onze koppositie een beetje kwijt... -
I disagree with Pope Francis: the War on Drugs should be ended
No Catholic should contradict the Pope, but drug legalisation would save lives
Fr Alexander Lucie-SmithCatholic Herald (UK)
Friday, July 26, 2013
No Catholic should contradict the Pope, and it is certainly not the job of Catholic theologian to tell the Pope that he is wrong. Nevertheless, I am on record as saying that I want all drugs, with no exceptions, to be legalised, regulated and taxed, whereas the Holy Father in Brazil, has this to say, as reported in the Guardian: -
Morocco considers the legalisation of marijuana cultivation
Keen to boost the economy and pacify a restive nation, politicians want to decriminalise cultivation of marijuana
The Independent (UK)
Monday, July 29, 2013
Legalisation of cannabis would allow farmers in Morocco to sell to the government for medicinal and industrial purposes rather than to drug traffickers. That could boost exports and help reduce a trade deficit that widened to a record 197 billion dirhams last year, about 23 per cent of gross domestic product. It could also help pacify inhabitants of a historically restive region. -
Uruguay's marijuana bill faces olitical, economic obstacles
Uruguay is poised to become the first country on the planet to regulate the production, sale and distribution of marijuana
Geoffrey RamseyIn Sight Crime
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Uruguay is pushing to legalize marijuana. If Uruguay's proposal to regulate the production, sale and distribution of marijuana is properly implemented and overcomes political and economic hurdles, it could be the most important drug regulation experiment in decades. The marijuana bill, which faces a lower house vote on July 31, could provide a model for countries looking for alternatives to the world’s dominant drug policy paradigm. -
Mexico could legalize marijuana in five years: former president
Reuters (US)
Friday, July 19, 2013
Mexico could legalize marijuana within the next five years, stripping brutal drug cartels of a major source of income, former President Vicente Fox said on Friday. Fox, who battled the powerful cartels while president between 2000 and 2006, has since become a staunch advocate of reforming Mexico's drug laws, arguing that prohibition has helped create the criminal market that sustains the gangs. -
Cardoso Endorses Uruguay’s ‘Regulacion Responsable’
Former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso publicly announced his support for Uruguay’s marijuana regulation bill
July 13-19, 2013
In an op-ed first published in Mexico’s El Universal and Brazil’s O Globo on Tuesday, Cardoso praised the proposal’s potential to take away profits which fuel illcit drug trafficking networks, saying it was “worthy of serious consideration.”
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Kenyan farmers fear UK khat ban
BBC News (UK)
Friday, July 12, 2013
A decision by the UK government to ban the stimulant khat later this year is facing fierce resistance in Kenya from those farming the mildly narcotic leaves for export. Local leaders are not happy with the UK's decision to reclassify khat as a class C drug. The local MP, Kubai Kiringo, tells me Kenya could reconsider its ties to Britain if the UK does not drop the ban. "We feel bitter and short-changed. We want the home secretary to revise her decision," he says. (See also: Harmless habit or dangerous drug?) -
Guatemala Minister of Foreign Affairs presents results of OAS General Assembly meeting, focused on drug policy, to full house at UN Headquarters in New York
International Drug Policy Consortium IDPC
Thursday, July 4, 2013
It was nearly standing room only Monday at UN Headquarters in New York, for a presentation of the Organization of American States’ reports on “The Drug Problem in the Americas” and the Declaration of Antigua Guatemala, “For a Comprehensive Policy against the World Drug Problem in the Americas,” adopted during the 43rd Regular Session of the Organization of American States General Assembly in La Antigua, Guatemala from 4 to 6 June 2013. -
Outcast: Egypt's growing addiction problem
Care for those addicted to drugs is woefully inadequate in Egypt, adding to the problem
Al Ahram (Egypt)
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Assistant professor of psychology at the American University in Cairo (AUC) Mona Amer says that a number of factors lead to drug abuse in Egypt. These include a number of "macro" factors such as the availability of drugs, the cultural environment which promotes or condones its use, and mainstream culture, in addition to some "micro" factors such as peer pressure, and more individual factors like curiosity, boredom and seeking escape. Post-revolution Egypt’s changing social structure, together with urbanisation and crippling unemployment rates, are other major factors contributing to addiction. Tramadol was upgraded in severity to "scheduled drug" last year, meaning that users must get have a doctor’s prescription. -
Lib-Dem minister Ed Davey reignites Coalition row over drug laws
Joseph WattsLondon Evening Standard (UK)
Saturday, June 21, 2013
A coalition split opened up today after Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary Ed Davey suggested crime barons were “making billions” due to failing drug laws. He is unconvinced the “war on drugs” has been won and ministers should debate whether certain substances could be decriminalised, he said.
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