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Why is Asia divided on a green light for medical marijuana?
Thursday, 17 December 2020The issue of cannabis legalisation around the world was once again thrust into the spotlight following a vote by the United Nations’ Commission on Narcotic Drugs to reclassify it as one that is less ...
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Special Report: Burner phones and banking apps
Thursday, 03 December 2020U.S. law enforcement officials say Chinese “money brokers” represent one of the most worrisome new threats in the war on drugs. Small cells of Chinese criminals have upended the way narcotics cash is ...
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A massive Asian drug bust has stirred a fentanyl mystery
Wednesday, 10 June 2020As the UNODC put it, this was “one of the largest and most successful counternarcotics operations” in Asia’s history. Myanmar’s army and police, which conducted the raids, are naturally pleased. But ...
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Is Southeast Asia's drug trade too big to control?
Tuesday, 19 May 2020Police in Myanmar this week announced the largest synthetic drug seizure on record in Southeast Asia. Between February and April, security forces seized more than 200 million tablets of methamphetami ...
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Estonia won its war on fentanyl, then things got worse
Thursday, 26 March 2020For nearly two decades Estonia battled a fentanyl epidemic so severe its overdose death rate was almost six times the European average. Once fentanyl landed, heroin disappeared. After Estonian police ...
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Human Rights and drug policy
Wednesday, 01 January 2020The Transnational Institute (TNI) has always believed in the need to find global answers to global problems, been a strong defender of multilateralism and an advocate of a well-functioning United Nat ...
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Beijing says US legalization of marijuana is a 'threat to China'
Monday, 17 June 2019Beijing's leading drug enforcement body has blamed the legalization of marijuana in Canada and parts of the United States for a spike in the amount of drugs smuggled into the country, describing it a ...
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China nominates Hong Kong occupy-era police chief for UN post
Wednesday, 05 June 2019China nominated a former Hong Kong police chief to lead the UN’s drug crimes division, the first time it has sought a global post since detaining Interpol’s chief last year. The effort to install And ...
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'Chinese Ecstasy' drug linked to 125 deaths has arrived in Britain, NCA warns festival goers
Sunday, 02 June 2019A new ecstasy-like drug produced in China that has been linked to at least 125 deaths is feared to have spread to Britain, the National Crime Agency has warned in an alert to summer festival-goers. T ...
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Asia emerging as new frontier for Canadian cannabis players
Thursday, 30 May 2019As cannabis companies eye expansion in European and South American markets, Asia is poised to be a new frontier for some major Canadian pot players. Despite being the world’s most populous continent, ...
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China cashes in on the cannabis boom
Monday, 06 May 2019China has made your iPhone, your Nikes. Now, it wants to grow your cannabis. Two of China’s 34 regions are quietly leading a boom in cultivating cannabis to produce cannabidiol, or CBD, the nonintoxi ...
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Mania for China’s hemp-related companies prompts stock regulator to crack down
Sunday, 07 April 2019Chinese cannabis-related stocks have been getting way too high this year for Beijing’s taste, prompting a crackdown to control the investor mania. Marijuana growth and consumption is illegal in China ...
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A budding trade: Industrial cannabis is booming in China
Thursday, 04 April 2019The hemp plant has a history in China. It was probably twisted into the world’s first rope there around 2,800BC. Since its cooler sister, marijuana, became legal for recreational use in Canada and ma ...
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Methamphetamine use in Myanmar, Thailand, and Southern China: assessing practices, reducing harms
Friday, 15 February 2019Over the past decade, methamphetamine use has grown more popular in Myanmar, Thailand and Southern China. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with individuals who use methamphetamine, this briefin ...
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Fears grow that Ketamine use by young is on the rise in England
Monday, 04 February 2019Public Health England has expressed concern that increasing numbers of young people are using ketamine as a Guardian analysis of government data shows the number of police seizures of the drug increa ...
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Trump says China will curtail fentanyl. The U.S. has heard that before
Monday, 03 December 2018China vows to stem the supply of the powerful opioid fentanyl flowing into the United States. It pledges to target exports of fentanyl-related substances bound for the United States that are prohibit ...
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Green gold rush: Thailand, Malaysia race to legalise medical marijuana
Monday, 12 November 2018Asia has the toughest penalties against drug use and trafficking but the legal landscape is shifting in several countries where cannabis once deemed ruinous to young lives, is emerging as a lucrative ...
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Time for a truce in Asia’s war on drugs
Saturday, 03 November 2018Global attitudes on narcotic drugs are changing, but the shift has come too late for those caught up in Asia’s past decade of misguided and often lethal anti-drug campaigns. Over the past ten years, ...
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Global cannabis industry eyes China for production and investment
Friday, 02 November 2018The global cannabis industry is targeting China for production and investment, while the country’s investors are warming up to the idea of placing their money in the fast-growing market. Legal cannab ...
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Trump administration plans U.N. meeting to ramp up the international drug war
Tuesday, 18 September 2018The Trump administration will open a week of high-level meetings at the United Nations General Assembly in New York with a drug policy event featuring President Donald Trump. Invites to the event are ...
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China says United States domestic opioid market the crux of crisis
Monday, 25 June 2018China’s drug control agency said the United States should do more to cut its demand for opioids to tackle the use of synthetic drug fentanyl, but it vowed to step up cooperation after Chinese product ...
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We went undercover in a Chinese MDMA factory
Tuesday, 29 May 2018We want to understand why MDMA is today so cheap, so pure, and so abundant across the UK and the EU. Since 2012, pills have doubled or tripled in strength and now have to be taken in halves if you wa ...
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Beijing asks Canada to help stem flow of illicit marijuana to China
Monday, 30 April 2018Chinese officials have been quietly grilling Canada about illicit marijuana flowing to their country, prompting Ottawa to agree to work with them on the problem, an internal federal memo reveals. The ...
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Hong Kong drug firm’s shares rise after it brings in Chinese hemp producer to explore medical uses of cannabis
Thursday, 22 February 2018Shares in Hong Kong pharmaceutical company Meilleure Health International Industry Group soared by as much as 35 per cent on Thursday after it issued 312 million new shares to top Chinese hemp produc ...
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US turns to Trump targets – UN, China and Mexico – for help in opioid crisis
Sunday, 07 January 2018The president declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency, with most recent government estimates suggesting the more than 64,000 fatal overdoses in 2016 outnumber the total number of America ...
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Time to shed medieval mindsets as we wage war on marijuana
Saturday, 06 January 2018It seems an eternity ago that two top High Court judges called for the decriminalisation of cannabis in Hong Kong, arguing that enforcement legislation was outdated and good citizens were finding the ...
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Green gold: how China quietly grew into a cannabis superpower
Sunday, 27 August 2017Thanks to government support and a long tradition, China has quietly become a superpower in hemp production and research. This growth has in part been made possible by government-funded scientists wh ...
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What’s the deal with cannabis in Hong Kong?
Saturday, 01 July 2017The use or sale of cannabis is banned in Hong Kong under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, which came into effect in 1969. Any person who cultivates any plant of the genus cannabis faces a HK$100,000 fi ...
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World Cannabis Day: ‘Flying leaves’ defy stigma to soar to new heights
Friday, 21 April 2017Ironically, in Asia where cannabis cultivation first began, cannabis laws remain the strictest. China will probably be the last country to relax such laws because of its painful history with drug use ...
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Deaths involving fentanyl rise as curbing illicit supply proves tough
Thursday, 17 November 2016To get in front of production, the State Department and a group of U.S. senators asked the United Nations in October to add to the list of tightly controlled substances two key ingredients used to ma ...
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Ketamine should be kept off worldwide illegal drugs list, doctors say
Friday, 02 September 2016The powerful tranquiliser ketamine should be kept off a worldwide illegal drugs list despite it being abused by clubbers, doctors are arguing. They say it should always be treated as a medicine and n ...
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How Canada got addicted to fentanyl
Thursday, 07 April 2016The supply chain for illicit fentanyl begins in China, but the problems Canada is experiencing start right here at home: No other country in the world consumes more prescription opioids on a per-capi ...
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Not just a party drug: no ketamine means no surgery in some developing countries
Thursday, 03 March 2016My supply of ketamine is under threat. I’m not a recreational drug taker. I’m an anaesthetist, and for me ketamine is medicine. In rural hospitals in Nigeria, injecting the drug is essential for preg ...
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The Ketamine Connection
Friday, 10 July 2015For decades, ketamine was only manufactured by pharmaceutical companies. Technically, it was too complicated to be made by amateur chemists. But in the past five years, that has changed. Chinese drug ...
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The new drug warriors
Friday, 01 May 2015The war on drugs is edging towards a truce. Half of Americans want to lift the ban on cannabis. America’s change of heart has led many to wonder if the UN conventions might be reformed to legalise so ...
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Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives and UNGASS 2016
Tuesday, 28 April 2015As the world prepares for the 2016 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016), an increasing number of countries around the world now find the regi ...
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China’s marijuana surprise
Tuesday, 11 November 2014An economic stir is happening in China, but it’s in an industry you might not expect. With more than half of the 600 relevant patents filed with the World Intellectual Property Office now owned by Ch ...
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Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives on counternarcotics regimes and UNGASS 2016
Wednesday, 15 October 2014The approaching 2016 UNGASS and the meetings that will follow provide an important opportunity to reexamine the existing regime and improve global drug policy through robust policy evaluations and im ...
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Call for end to anti-drug aid for regimes with death penalty
Saturday, 29 December 2012Human rights groups have urged the UK government to heed the recommendations of an influential parliamentary committee that has told the government to stop funnelling money into anti drug-trafficking ...
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The Death Penalty for Drug Offences
Monday, 19 November 2012Executions for drug offences have escalated in countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia against a trend towards abolition globally, reveals a new Harm Reduction International (HRI) report The Death Pe ...
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How International Aid for Drug Enforcement Fuels Human Rights Abuses
Tuesday, 02 October 2012It is increasingly clear that there is a fundamental lack of oversight of how international aid – provided by the US, Europe and the United Nations to poorer countries – is used to pursue anti-drug e ...
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Partners in Crime
Wednesday, 20 June 2012Millions of dollars in international aid for drug enforcement is spent in countries with extremely poor human rights records and with little or no accountability for the resulting abuses, according t ...
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From Golden Triangle to Rubber Belt?
Wednesday, 01 July 2009In the Kokang and Wa regions in northern Burma opium bans have ended over a century of poppy cultivation. The bans have had dramatic consequences for local communities. They depended on opium as a ca ...
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The ATS Boom in Southeast Asia
Thursday, 15 January 2009In the 1990s, Southeast Asia experienced a boom in the production and consumption of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS), in particular methamphetamines (meth). At the same time, the region has seen a ...
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Rewriting history
Sunday, 01 June 2008The world today is not any closer to achieving the ten-year targets set by the 1998 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs. These goals were “eliminating or significantly reducing the ...
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Closed to Reason
Thursday, 21 February 2008A report published in March 2007 by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Open Society Institute Public Health Program, strongly criticises the INCB. It accuses the Board of becoming 'an obstac ...
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