Items tagged with prohibition
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| Doctors say UK drug policy should focus more on health [15.01.2013] | Although illicit drug use has been declining in the UK, long-term problem drug use and drug-related deaths are not decreasing, says the British Medic ... |
| The 1971 Misuse of Drugs act was the stupidest and most ineffective ever passed [14.01.2013] | Yet another parliamentary group has pronounced in favour of drugs decriminalisation. It still won’t happen. What is baffling is the intransigence of ... |
| Racism's hidden history in the war on drugs [02.01.2013] | The first anti-drug law in the US was a local law in San Francisco passed in 1875, outlawing the smoking of opium and directed at the Chinese. Mariju ... |
| As US states legalise marijuana, is this the end of the drugs war? [10.11.2012] | Last week was a momentous week, the beginning of the end, perhaps, of a national depravity – the "war on drugs". The voters of Colorado and Washingto ... |
| U.S. vote may be beginning of the end for War on Drugs [05.11.2012] | "Exactly 80 years ago (in 1932), Colorado voters approved a ballot measure to appeal alcohol prohibition, and that came before it being repealed by t ... |
| Global drug policies need radical reform, says report [23.10.2012] | The global war on drugs has failed and international policy requires radical reform to remove outmoded, unscientific thinking, according to a major n ... |
| 75 years of racial control: happy birthday marijuana prohibition [27.09.2012] | As we approach the 75th anniversary of marijuana prohibition in the United States on October 1, it is important to remember why marijuana was deemed ... |
| Drug use is an issue for society, not the criminal justice system [10.09.2012] | There is no reliable evidence that tougher criminal sanctions deter drug use or offending. On the contrary, criminalisation worsens the health and we ... |
| After 33 years, I can no longer ignore the evidence on drugs [07.06.2012] | "As a 33-year police practitioner who was commissioner of the Australian Federal Police during the 'tough on drugs' period, I fully understand the co ... |
| Time for open, informed debate on drug policy [18.04.2012] | Latin American leaders have said recently that the West’s "war on drugs" has failed, and a new book from the International Institute for Strategic St ... |
| Drugs war 'a failure' that bred criminals [02.04.2012] | Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, is among a group of prominent Australians who said the ''war on drugs'' is a failure. ''The prohibition of illici ... |
| The Prohibition of Illicit Drugs is Killing and Criminalising our Children [02.04.2012] | It is time to reopen the national debate about drug use, its regulation and control. In June 2011 a prestigious Global Commission stated that the 40- ... |
| The War On Drugs Hurts Businesses and Investors [29.02.2012] | “The drug war is weakening state institutions, infiltrating judicial systems and undermining rule of law,” all of which is bad for business, César Za ... |
| Rick Ross, '80s Crack Kingpin, Would Rather Have Sold Pot [11.01.2012] | A leading distributor of crack cocaine in the 1980s would have preferred to have been a pot dealer, but was unable to find enough supply, he told The ... |
| Nieuwe publicatie van het Transnational Institute raadt de regering af khat te verbieden [11.01.2012] | De engelstalige briefing Chewing over Khat Prohibition rekent af met de effectiviteit van een ban, zoals is gebleken uit andere Europese landen. Prob ... |
| Chewing over Khat prohibition [10.01.2012] | In the context of a fast changing and well documented market in legal highs, the case of khat (Catha edulis) provides an interesting anomaly. It is f ... |
| How well do international drug conventions protect public health? [07.01.2012] | The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961 aimed to eliminate the illicit production and non-medical use of cannabis, cocaine, and opioids, an a ... |
| The great debate that no one's talking about [03.12.2011] | Scientists, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors and directors of public prosecution are pleading for change but no political party will touch th ... |
| It's time to end the phoney war on drugs [29.11.2011] | We are supposedly engaged in a "war on drugs." What war on drugs? A phoney war, because it provokes that which it proclaims to repress. Take three co ... |
| Dr. Evan Wood: There is nothing conservative about supporting marijuana prohibition [28.11.2011] | Imagine an extremely expensive government policy proven to be completely ineffective at achieving its stated objectives. Consider also that whenever ... |
| The global war on drugs has failed [21.11.2011] | To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the Beckley Foundation published a public letter calling for a new a ... |
| The war on drugs and the shameful silence of our politicians [13.11.2011] | In a parliamentary debate in the House of Commons, David Cameron said: "I ask the Labour government not to return to retribution and war on drugs. Th ... |
| Juan Manuel Santos: 'It is time to think again about the war on drugs' [13.11.2011] | Santos spelled out the radical ideas which he hopes will create a fresh approach. He said: "A new approach should try and take away the violent profi ... |
| How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime [11.11.2011] | This contradicts one of the central tenets of the War on Drugs, which is that the psychopharmacological effects of drug use lead to criminal behavior ... |
| The long shadow line: History and the war on drugs [09.10.2011] | Tobacco rose and fell and rose and fell in a 400-year smoking spree that established a pattern for the trade in all addictive substances. Beginning w ... |
| World Drug Day 2011 - Counting the Costs of the War on Drugs! [05.09.2011] | Anniversaries are always good to catalyize drug policy reform activities – and 2011 is very special anniversary. It is the 50th anniversary of the Si ... |
| 'Legal highs' prevalence makes ban policy 'ridiculous' [03.09.2011] | New "legal highs" are being discovered at the rate of one a week, outstripping attempts to control their availability and exposing what some experts ... |
| Mexico's Narco-Epiphany: Is Calderón Suggesting the U.S. Legalize Drugs? [30.08.2011] | The central statistic of Mexico's violent drug war – 40,000 gangland murders in the past five years – is repeated so often it almost fails to alarm u ... |
| The Drug War Is the Inevitable Result of Capitalism Gone Mad; Ciudad Juarez Is All of Our Futures [21.06.2011] | War, as I came to report it, was something fought between people with causes, however crazy or honourable: like between the American and British occup ... |
| The Drug War Must End: More Evidence from Thailand [21.06.2011] | Only weeks after the Global Commission on Drug Policy called for the end of the drug war, new video testimony from Thailand reinforces why this is a ... |
| Russia's punitive drug laws [18.06.2011] | Life is especially difficult for the 6 million drug addicts living in Russia because methadone is banned, and they are reluctant to use the few avail ... |
| Four Decades Later, It's Time to Scrap the Dead-End Drug War [17.06.2011] | I recently returned from the desert city of Durango, Mexico, where forensic officials are still trying to identify some 240 corpses discovered this y ... |
| On 40th Anniversary Of War On Drugs, Cops Decry Obama's Drug Policy [15.06.2011] | Forty years after President Richard Nixon first declared a war on drugs, the officers who fought in it are calling for a truce. Former law enforcemen ... |
| Elected Officials, VIPs and Grassroots Slam Drug War on 40th Anniversary [14.06.2011] | June 17 will mark forty years since President Richard Nixon, citing drug abuse as "public enemy No. 1," officially declared a "war on drugs." A trill ... |
| Russia defies growing consensus with declaration of 'Total War on Drugs' [08.06.2011] | "Sending more people to prison will not reduce drug addiction or improve public health," said Anya Sarang, president of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation, ... |
| More Calls For A Drug War Cease-Fire [06.06.2011] | Tomorrow marks the 79th anniversary of the beginning of the end of the U.S. prohibition on alcohol. On that day in 1932 John D. Rockefeller Jr., a vo ... |
| The Saturday interview: Richard Branson [04.06.2011] | "I've seen the war on drugs and I've not been impressed," says Richard Branson. "Thousands of people are being killed in Mexico because of the demand ... |
| The drug war comes full circle [03.06.2011] | The most striking name on the list is that of Kofi Annan. As secretary general of the United Nations in 1998, Kofi Annan presided over a special Unite ... |
| War on drugs not working, says global commission [02.06.2011] | The global war on drugs has failed and governments should explore legalising marijuana and other controlled substances, according to a commission tha ... |
| Drug laws and bans on legal highs 'do more harm than good' [14.05.2011] | The UK's "outdated" drug laws could be doing more harm than good and are failing to recognise that banning some "legal highs" may have negative conse ... |
| Drug laws 'may make matters worse' [31.03.2011] | Police efforts to fight drug gangs tend to lead to more violence and an increase in murders, according to a new international study. The authors, wri ... |
| Drug Lords Celebrate the Drug War at the UN! [29.03.2011] | When the United Nations adopted the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961, most people did not expect that 50 years later nobody will celebrate ... |
| The War on Drugs - Count the Costs and Explore the Alternatives [23.03.2011] | The war on drugs creates massive costs, resulting from the enforcement-led approach that puts organised crime in control of the trade. It is time to ... |
| Fifty Years of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs: A Reinterpretation [19.03.2011] | This year marks the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, signed on 30 March 1961. 73 countries were represente ... |
| Drug War Anniversary a Time for Reflection and Action [11.02.2011] | Some anniversaries provide an occasion for celebration, others a time for reflection, still others a time for action. This June will mark forty years ... |
| The development of international drug control [01.02.2011] | The emergence of more pragmatic and less punitive approaches to the drugs issue may represent the beginning of change in the current global drug cont ... |
| Latin American statesmen question drugs war strategy [27.01.2011] | Three former Latin American presidents have declared the US-led “war on drugs” a failure and called for new strategies focusing on treatment to repla ... |
| Towards a new drug policy [25.01.2011] | What are the benefits and risks of eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana possession for personal use? What are the risks and benefits of disti ... |
| Ending the futile war on drugs [27.12.2010] | The war on drugs is a lost war, and 2011 is the time to move away from a punitive approach in order to pursue a new set of policies based on public h ... |
| The only winner in the 'war on drugs' [02.12.2010] | The outcome of this militarisation of drugs policy has been overwhelmingly negative. Military involvement in such an irregular war was not only unrea ... |
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