Tag: regulation
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A French economist argues for the legalization of cannabis
Tuesday, 02 August 2011University of Paris economist Pierre Kopp wants to legalize marijuana for entirely economic reasons. Kopp tells Le Monde : "For economists, the public good is that which minimizes the cost to society ...
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Marijuana bill officially introduced to Congress by Ron Paul, Barney Frank
Thursday, 23 June 2011Marijuana laws should be set at the state, not federal, level, Reps. Ron Paul and Barney Frank argued in a bill they introduced Thursday. The goal of the bill, HR 2306 or the Ending Federal Marijuana ...
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Global Commission on Drug Policy Report
Thursday, 02 June 2011The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and 4 ...
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Taking Drugs Seriously
Tuesday, 17 May 2011Since first coming to public prominence at the end of 2009, legal highs have posed a major challenge to existing legal and legislative structures designed to deal with drugs. With the market in manuf ...
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Options for regulating new psychoactive drugs
Sunday, 01 May 2011This paper is intended to provide the basis for a discussion of policy options in dealing with new psychoactive substances that show signs of popularity and of harmfulness within a wider project bein ...
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The future of Dutch cannabis policy
Monday, 14 March 2011The municipality of the Dutch city of Utrecht recently announced two scientific experiments on cannabis policy. One experiment will be to set up a closed club model for adult recreational cannabis us ...
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Dutch city wants to grow cannabis in a cooperative
Friday, 11 March 2011The Dutch city of Utrecht wants cannabis smokers to grow their own marijuana in a cooperative, a move which would go against the Netherlands' drive to discourage soft drug use. It also would be illeg ...
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Happy toking
Thursday, 10 February 2011This week’s Economist-YouGov poll contains some exciting news for devotees of the weed. A huge majority of Americans, more than two to one once don’t knows have been excluded, support the legalisatio ...
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Personalities urge new ways to tackle drug abuse
Tuesday, 25 January 2011A group set up by former Latin American leaders and personalities including Virgin chief Richard Branson on Monday recommended that consumers of illicit drugs should not be treated as criminals. The ...
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Cannabis social clubs in Spain
Monday, 24 January 2011Cannabis social clubs (CSC) are noncommercial organisations of users who get together to cultivate and distribute enough cannabis to meet their personal needs without having to turn to the black mark ...
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Non-residents in the Netherlands and access to coffee-shops
Thursday, 16 December 2010Under the 1976 Law on opium (Opiumwet 1976), the possession, dealing, cultivation, transportation, production, import and export of narcotic drugs, including cannabis and its derivatives, are prohibi ...
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Ex-minister Bob Ainsworth: Make drugs legally available
Thursday, 16 December 2010Bob Ainsworth, a Home Office minister under Tony Blair, said successive governments' approaches had failed, leaving criminal gangs in control. The MP wants to see a system of strict legal regulation, ...
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David Nutt: 'The government cannot think logically about drugs'
Monday, 06 December 2010If someone were to invent a perfectly safe ecstasy pill, what would be done about it? It's the sort of scenario clubbers like to speculate about, usually at around 6am, a little the worse for wear af ...
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Liberal Dutch marijuana policy taking another hit?
Thursday, 18 November 2010The new conservative Dutch government wants to force the country's marijuana cafes to become "members only" clubs, a move that would effectively block foreigners from buying the drug. If the idea eve ...
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A hunger strike divides Switzerland
Wednesday, 17 November 2010Imprisoned cannabis farmer Bernard Rappaz has been on hunger strike for more than 80 days in protest at a prison sentence he considers too high. Doctors have refused orders from the authorities to fo ...
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What should we do about cannabis?
Tuesday, 09 November 2010No serious commentator doubts that cannabis is potentially damaging to the user. Like tobacco, it is typically smoked and thus shares the potential for lung disease. Like alcohol, it affects reaction ...
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New Report: U.S. Government Data Demonstrates Failure of Cannabis Prohibition
Thursday, 07 October 2010The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP) today released a new research report, Tools for debate: U.S. federal government data on cannabis prohibition, that demonstrates the clear f ...
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US Federal Government Data on Cannabis Prohibition
Thursday, 07 October 2010The report reviews 20 years of data from US government funded surveillance systems on government drug control spending, cannabis seizures and cannabis arrests, in order to assess the impact of enforc ...
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The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition
Wednesday, 29 September 2010The CATO report estimates that legalizing drugs would save roughly $41.3 billion per year in government expenditure on enforcement of prohibition. Of these savings, $25.7 billion would accrue to stat ...
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License cannabis sales, expert says
Tuesday, 14 September 2010Policymakers should consider allowing the licensed sale of cannabis for recreational use, says one of the UK's leading researchers of the drug. Professor Roger Pertwee is to make the call in a speech ...
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Weary of drug war, Mexico debates legalization
Sunday, 12 September 2010A debate about legalizing marijuana and possibly other drugs — once a taboo suggestion — is percolating in Mexico, a nation exhausted by runaway violence and a deadly drug war. The debate is only lik ...
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California's Prop 19, on legalizing marijuana, could end Mexico's drug war
Sunday, 05 September 2010On Nov. 2, Californians will vote on Proposition 19, deciding whether to legalize the production, sale and consumption of marijuana. If the initiative passes, it won't just be momentous for Californi ...
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East African discourses on khat and sex
Wednesday, 01 September 2010The study aims to review and analyse the varied East African discourses on the effects of khat use on libido, fertility, transmission of HIV, prostitution and rape. Khat is associated, by consumers a ...
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Cannabis in Mexico
Friday, 27 August 2010In August 2010, Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared that he would support a national debate on the issue of legalisation, reversing his previous stance on the subject. However, he underscored ...
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Kerlikowske draws the wrong conclusions
Monday, 16 August 2010In "Has the time come to legalize drugs?" Andres Oppenheimer, the influential opinion maker about Latin American affairs at the Miami Herald, describes how the debate about cannabis regulation "is ra ...
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Thinking the unthinkable
Thursday, 12 August 2010Since marijuana provides the Mexican gangs with up to half their income, taking that business out of their hands would change the balance of power in the drug war. Californians will vote in November ...
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Has the time come to legalize drugs?
Thursday, 12 August 2010Legalization of drugs -- long an issue championed mainly by fringe groups -- is rapidly moving to the mainstream in Latin America. Last week's surprise statement by former Mexican President Vicente F ...
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Ex-Mexico president calls for legalizing drugs
Monday, 09 August 2010Former President Vicente Fox is joining with those urging his successor to legalize drugs in Mexico, saying that could break the economic power of the country's brutal drug cartels. Fox's comments, p ...
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The problem is more than just the substances, it's the prohibition itself
Monday, 09 August 2010Maria Lucia Karam, a retired Brazilian judge, argues that drugs should be legalised - but regulated. Every country that has provided a glimpse of what a regulated future might look like has experienc ...
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Marijuana Legalization Gaining Favor in Mexico
Sunday, 08 August 2010"I don't think that marijuana legalization will be a panacea on drug violence in Mexico," said David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego. "But legalization co ...
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Why the US and Latin America could be ready to end a fruitless 40-year struggle
Sunday, 08 August 2010Mexico's president Felipe Caldéron is the latest Latin leader to call for a debate on drugs legalisation. And in the US, liberals and right-wing libertarians are pressing for an end to prohibition. F ...
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De “no hay alternativa” a “enséñenme la salida”
Friday, 06 August 2010Aun cuando tarde, siempre será bienvenida la disposición presidencial para admitir la necesidad de un debate largamente pospuesto en su administración: la de los verdaderos resultados de su “guerra c ...
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Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
Friday, 06 August 2010The current international system of drug control has focused on creating a drug-free world, almost exclusively through use of law enforcement policies and criminal sanctions. Mounting evidence, howev ...
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An alternative to the war on drugs
Saturday, 17 July 2010Stephen Rolles argues that we need to end the criminalisation of drugs and set up regulatory models that will control drug markets and reduce the harms caused by current policy. Non-medical drug mark ...
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A good chew or good riddance
Thursday, 15 July 2010The article reviews the status of khat, the most recent plant based psychoactive substance to reach a global market, and considers policy making processes in general and the framework of drug control ...
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Altered State?
Wednesday, 07 July 2010To learn more about the possible outcomes of marijuana legalization in California, RAND researchers constructed a model based on a series of estimates of current consumption, current and future price ...
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Ending drug prohibition: the ultimate austerity measure
Tuesday, 18 May 2010The ban on recreational drugs promotes crime and is bad for public health. Austerity measures to cut public spending are a hot topic for debate everywhere in Europe. In the Netherlands, where a new p ...
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Former ministers: legalise all drugs!
Tuesday, 18 May 2010'Save the country, legalise drugs.' Under this striking banner, two former Dutch government ministers (for foreign affairs and health) are launching their revolutionary plan. They estimate that more ...
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The changing use and misuse of khat
Friday, 07 May 2010Within the last decade the hitherto little known psychoactive substance of khat has emerged as a regional and international issue. In the Horn of Africa khat production has spurred an economic boom, ...
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Budgetary benefits of cannabis regulation
Tuesday, 20 April 2010In the United States the discussion on the pros and cons of regulating cannabis is well advanced. The national television news programme CNBC has dedicated a website, Marijuana & Money, to the issue. ...
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MP: Approval for city ‘coffee shop’ plan unlikely
Friday, 15 January 2010The Copenhagen City Council’s plan to set up shops selling cannabis as a way to remove the market from the control of gangs is not likely to be embraced enthusiastically in parliament, according to a ...
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Blueprint for Regulation
Sunday, 01 November 2009There is a growing recognition around the world that the prohibition of drugs is a counterproductive failure. However, a major barrier to drug law reform has been a widespread fear of the unknown—jus ...
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Illicit drugs policy through the lens of regulation
Sunday, 01 November 2009The application of regulatory theory to the problem of illicit drugs has generally been thought about only in terms of ‘command and control’. The international treaties governing global illicit drug ...
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Regulating khat
Sunday, 01 November 2009The regulation of khat, one of the most recent psychoactive drugs to become a globally traded commodity, remains hotly contested within different producer and consumer countries. As regimes vary, it ...
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Marijuana's journey to legal health treatment
Sunday, 16 August 2009In 2001, Canada became the first country to adopt a formal system to regulate the medicinal use of marijuana — the Marijuana Medical Access Regulations. The policy allowed people suffering from termi ...
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Legal Responses to New Psychoactive Substances in Europe
Thursday, 19 February 2009This paper starts from the premise that, when a new psychoactive substance appears on the licit/illicit market in a country in Europe, legislators need to choose whether to bring it under control of ...
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Dutch mayors call for growing marijuana
Sunday, 23 November 2008The Dutch government should licence the growing and supply of marijuana to the country’s 700 or so coffee shops that sell cannabis, according to a group of around 30 Dutch mayors. This is the conclus ...
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Local councils support tolerant cannabis policy
Tuesday, 18 November 2008Most of the Dutch local councils that have so-called coffee shops which sell marijuana say they have no problem with the current policy of tolerating these outlets, according to a survey by NRC Hande ...
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Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate
Monday, 01 September 2008Despite cannabis being the most widely used illegal drug, and therefore the mainstay of the ‘war on drugs’, it has only ever held a relatively marginal position in international drug policy discussio ...
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Cannabis dreams drift away
Monday, 07 April 2008Following decades of rising cannabis use and talk of liberalisation, Switzerland had appeared poised to become the marijuana capital of Europe. The country still boasts some of the highest rates of c ...
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