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  • Why is Asia divided on a green light for medical marijuana?

    Thursday, 17 December 2020

    The 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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    malaysia | scheduling | nepal | singapore | indonesia | india | china | russia | thailand | medical cannabis | WHO | UN drug control
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  • Special Report: Burner phones and banking apps

    Thursday, 03 December 2020

    U.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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    crime | china | money laundering | US drug policy | mexico
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  • A massive Asian drug bust has stirred a fentanyl mystery

    Wednesday, 10 June 2020

    As 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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    crime | fentanyl | china | methamphetamine | drug markets | law enforcement | burma | UNODC | US drug policy
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  • Is Southeast Asia's drug trade too big to control?

    Tuesday, 19 May 2020

    Police 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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    precursors | drug trade | fentanyl | china | heroin | methamphetamine | thailand | money laundering | burma | UNODC
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  • Estonia won its war on fentanyl, then things got worse

    Thursday, 26 March 2020

    For 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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    estonia | tramadol | drug trade | fentanyl | china | NPS | heroin | methamphetamine | drug markets | harm reduction
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  • Human Rights and drug policy

    Wednesday, 01 January 2020

    The 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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    peyote | extrajudicial killings | cambodia | philippines | iran | china | russia | thailand | law enforcement | compulsary detention | conventions | CND | UNODC | human rights | INCB | UN drug control | colombia
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  • Beijing says US legalization of marijuana is a 'threat to China'

    Monday, 17 June 2019

    Beijing'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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    death penalty | china | legalization | human rights | cannabis | US drug policy
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  • China nominates Hong Kong occupy-era police chief for UN post

    Wednesday, 05 June 2019

    China 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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    china | UNODC | UN drug control
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  • 'Chinese Ecstasy' drug linked to 125 deaths has arrived in Britain, NCA warns festival goers

    Sunday, 02 June 2019

    A 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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    drug checking | china | NPS | ecstasy | UK
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  • Asia emerging as new frontier for Canadian cannabis players

    Thursday, 30 May 2019

    As 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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    singapore | china | cannabis industry | thailand | canada | medical cannabis | cannabis
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  • China cashes in on the cannabis boom

    Monday, 06 May 2019

    China 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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    hemp | china | cannabis industry | cannabinoids | cannabis
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  • Mania for China’s hemp-related companies prompts stock regulator to crack down

    Sunday, 07 April 2019

    Chinese 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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    hemp | china | cannabis industry | medical cannabis
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  • A budding trade: Industrial cannabis is booming in China

    Thursday, 04 April 2019

    The 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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    hemp | china | cannabis industry | medical cannabis
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  • Methamphetamine use in Myanmar, Thailand, and Southern China: assessing practices, reducing harms

    Friday, 15 February 2019
    Methamphetamine use in Myanmar, Thailand, and Southern China: assessing practices, reducing harms

    Over 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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    china | methamphetamine | thailand | burma | mild stimulants | kratom | harm reduction
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  • Fears grow that Ketamine use by young is on the rise in England

    Monday, 04 February 2019

    Public 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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    china | drug markets | ketamine | UK
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  • Trump says China will curtail fentanyl. The U.S. has heard that before

    Monday, 03 December 2018

    China 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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    opioids | fentanyl | china | US drug policy
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  • Green gold rush: Thailand, Malaysia race to legalise medical marijuana

    Monday, 12 November 2018

    Asia 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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    malaysia | nepal | asean | india | china | thailand | medical cannabis | legalization | cannabis
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  • Time for a truce in Asia’s war on drugs

    Saturday, 03 November 2018

    Global 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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    extrajudicial killings | asean | singapore | vietnam | philippines | indonesia | china | thailand | law enforcement | compulsary detention | burma | human rights
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  • Global cannabis industry eyes China for production and investment

    Friday, 02 November 2018

    The 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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    patents | hemp | china | cannabis industry | cannabinoids | medical cannabis | cannabis
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  • Trump administration plans U.N. meeting to ramp up the international drug war

    Tuesday, 18 September 2018

    The 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 | UN drug control | US drug policy
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  • China says United States domestic opioid market the crux of crisis

    Monday, 25 June 2018

    China’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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    opioids | fentanyl | china | US drug policy
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  • We went undercover in a Chinese MDMA factory

    Tuesday, 29 May 2018

    We 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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    precursors | crime | china | ecstasy | UK | netherlands
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  • Beijing asks Canada to help stem flow of illicit marijuana to China

    Monday, 30 April 2018

    Chinese 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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    opioids | fentanyl | china | law enforcement | canada | cannabis
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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 2018

    Shares 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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    hemp | china | cannabis industry | medical cannabis
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  • US turns to Trump targets – UN, China and Mexico – for help in opioid crisis

    Sunday, 07 January 2018

    The 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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    opioids | fentanyl | china | UN drug control | US drug policy | mexico
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  • Time to shed medieval mindsets as we wage war on marijuana

    Saturday, 06 January 2018

    It 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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    china | law enforcement | cannabis | decriminalization
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  • Green gold: how China quietly grew into a cannabis superpower

    Sunday, 27 August 2017

    Thanks 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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    patents | hemp | china | cannabis industry | medical cannabis | cannabis
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  • What’s the deal with cannabis in Hong Kong?

    Saturday, 01 July 2017

    The 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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    china | law enforcement | sentencing | cannabis | decriminalization
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  • World Cannabis Day: ‘Flying leaves’ defy stigma to soar to new heights

    Friday, 21 April 2017

    Ironically, 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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    patents | hemp | china | medical cannabis | cannabis
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  • Deaths involving fentanyl rise as curbing illicit supply proves tough

    Thursday, 17 November 2016

    To 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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    dark net | fentanyl | china | heroin | drug markets | UN drug control | US drug policy | reclassification | mexico
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  • Ketamine should be kept off worldwide illegal drugs list, doctors say

    Friday, 02 September 2016

    The 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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    china | ketamine | UN drug control | reclassification
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  • How Canada got addicted to fentanyl

    Thursday, 07 April 2016

    The 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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    opioids | fentanyl | china | heroin | canada
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  • Not just a party drug: no ketamine means no surgery in some developing countries

    Thursday, 03 March 2016

    My 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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    china | ketamine | WHO | CND | reclassification
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  • The Ketamine Connection

    Friday, 10 July 2015

    For 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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    china | methamphetamine | ketamine
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  • The new drug warriors

    Friday, 01 May 2015

    The 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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    china | russia | brownfield doctrine | ketamine | conventions | CND | UNODC | prohibition | human rights | UN drug control | proportionality
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  • Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives and UNGASS 2016

    Tuesday, 28 April 2015

    As 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 | russia | sweden | 2016 UNGASS | thailand | colorado | burma | netherlands | regulation | cannabis | UN drug control | US drug policy | uruguay | mexico
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  • China’s marijuana surprise

    Tuesday, 11 November 2014

    An 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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    patents | hemp | china | medical cannabis | cannabis
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  • Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives on counternarcotics regimes and UNGASS 2016

    Wednesday, 15 October 2014

    The 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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    china | russia | 2016 UNGASS | prohibition | UN drug control
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  • Call for end to anti-drug aid for regimes with death penalty

    Saturday, 29 December 2012

    Human 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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    pakistan | iran | china | UK | human rights
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  • The Death Penalty for Drug Offences

    Monday, 19 November 2012
    The Death Penalty for Drug Offences

    Executions 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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    pakistan | indonesia | iran | china | human rights | proportionality
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  • How International Aid for Drug Enforcement Fuels Human Rights Abuses

    Tuesday, 02 October 2012

    It 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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    iran | china | law enforcement | UNODC | human rights | UN drug control
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  • Partners in Crime

    Wednesday, 20 June 2012
    Partners in Crime

    Millions 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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    vietnam | laos | cambodia | indonesia | iran | china | compulsary detention | human rights
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  • From Golden Triangle to Rubber Belt?

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009
    From Golden Triangle to Rubber Belt?

    In 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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    china | law enforcement | eradication | opium | burma | alternative development
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  • The ATS Boom in Southeast Asia

    Thursday, 15 January 2009
    The ATS Boom in Southeast Asia

    In 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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    vietnam | laos | cambodia | china | methamphetamine | drug markets | thailand | ATS | burma
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  • Rewriting history

    Sunday, 01 June 2008
    Rewriting history

    The 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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    china | 1998 UNGASS | opium | UNODC | UNGASS | coca | UN drug control
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  • Closed to Reason

    Thursday, 21 February 2008
    Closed to Reason

    A 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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    extrajudicial killings | china | russia | thailand | civil society | HIV/AIDS | conventions | human rights | INCB | harm reduction
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