Items tagged with opium
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| Prohibited Plants [18.08.2022] | Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and m ... |
| Women and Drugs in Myanmar [06.04.2022] | What’s the role and position of women in opium cultivation areas in Myanmar? What is life like for women who use drugs in Myanmar? This primer maps o ... |
| New regime, same old drug myths in Myanmar [07.09.2021] | In the late 1980s as well as in Myanmar today, the military (or Tatmadaw) and the police could hardly be described as anti-drug crusaders. On the con ... |
| The War on Drugs and the denial of indigenous rights [09.08.2021] | As a colonial construct, the global drug control regime has undermined the rights of indigenous peoples (including the right to self determination, a ... |
| Legalization advocates hope to end Mexico’s drug war [12.12.2020] | A determined political movement to end the war on drugs has taken shape across Europe and North America. Harm reduction advocates say lives can be sa ... |
| Farmers in western Makwanpur return to marijuana farming due to pandemic-induced poverty [11.09.2020] | Farmers in rural municipalities in western Makwanpur district have started cultivating marijuana since the harvest in their maize and millet fields t ... |
| The coronavirus has gutted the price of coca. It could reshape the cocaine trade [09.06.2020] | As a farmer eking out a living in Peru’s central jungle, Rubén Leiva grew one cash crop that seemed immune from global cycles of booms and busts. But ... |
| The UN Drug Control Conventions [31.12.2019] | For more than ten years, TNI’s Drugs & Democracy programme has been studying the UN drug control conventions and the institutional architecture of th ... |
| Growers' voices at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs [25.11.2019] | From 16 to 18 October 2019, representatives of member states, intergovernmental organisations, and civil society attended the 6th Intersessional Meet ... |
| When poppies don’t pay [24.06.2019] | “Then and there, I went to sell it, because I needed the money,” sing Los Armadillos, a band from La Sierra in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The pop ... |
| How to legalize every drug [22.05.2019] | As Canada continues to work out the kinks of legalizing cannabis—and jurisdictions around the world follow suit—harm reduction advocates and drug pol ... |
| Making the desert bloom: Cheap solar panels boost the Afghan poppy crop [16.05.2019] | Solar panels are transforming the landscape of southern Afghanistan. Only 12% of the country is suitable for growing permanent crops, mostly in the v ... |
| UN report on Myanmar opium crop criticized [06.03.2019] | The recently-released "Myanmar Opium Survey 2018" by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) distorts reality, accuses ethnic rebels wh ... |
| A Distortion of Reality [05.03.2019] | After decades of fighting between the central government and various ethnic armed organisations in Myanmar, the links between drugs and conflict have ... |
| Drug policy in India: Key developments since the UNGASS 2016 [20.02.2019] | This paper outlines the key drug policy developments in India since the UNGASS Outcome Document was adopted in 2016, which highlights health and huma ... |
| Struggling to compete with fentanyl, Mexico’s poppy farmers ask for legalization [04.02.2019] | Guerrero is Mexico’s third-poorest state and the center of its opium industry. If the state of 3.5 million were an independent country, it would be t ... |
| Mexico’s war on drugs failed [30.11.2018] | Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, once a firm proponent of the war on drugs, urged contemporary lawmakers to “give the benefit of the doubt t ... |
| Connecting the dots... [26.10.2018] | How can we resolve the tensions between current drug control policies and states’ human rights obligations? The international human rights framework ... |
| Report says the UN's global 'war on drugs' has been a failure [22.10.2018] | The United Nations' drug strategy of the past 10 years has been a failure, according to a major report by the International Drug Policy Consortium (I ... |
| Taking stock: A decade of drug policy [22.10.2018] | ‘Taking stock: A decade of drug policy’ evaluates the impacts of drug policies implemented across the world over the past decade, using data from the ... |
| Mexico president-elect says will look at legalizing some drugs [08.10.2018] | Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that he would consider legalizing certain drugs as part of a broader strategy to fight pove ... |
| Should Punjab government legalise opium? Here's what leaders have to say [03.10.2018] | Consuming opium and poppy husk is not considered bad in Punjab. It is called 'kali nagini ' (black female serpent) and people from all walks of life ... |
| Seek drug reform within international law: Tom Blickman [01.10.2018] | Dating back to the latter part of 1800s, precisely in 1894-95, the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission consisting of medical experts of Indian and British o ... |
| Andhra Pradesh's north eastern hilly belt fast becoming cannabis capital of India [02.09.2018] | Paderu is the main town in the area and the cannabis produced in the entire belt is popularly called Paderu ganja. This region is quickly becoming th ... |
| The Chitta economy: How the business of drugs works in Punjab [01.09.2018] | In the last few years, while the business and economy in the state kept sliding, the drugs trade flourished. With addicts turning peddlers and severa ... |
| Gandhi’s plea to legalise soft drugs gains support [30.08.2018] | MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi’s demand for legalising soft drugs, including poppy husk, opium and marijuana, is gaining ground. Earlier, the idea was endor ... |
| Mexico’s new president has a radical plan to end the drug war [15.08.2018] | Since the military took to the streets to fight the increasingly powerful and violent cartels producing and trafficking drugs north to consumers in t ... |
| Poppy husk smuggling up in Barmer, but no excise case registered in 10 years [12.07.2018] | Smuggling of doda post (lanced poppy husk) is on the rise in Barmer district after government supply of the narcotic was banned from April 2016, but ... |
| More drugs, more deaths, more damage... [26.06.2018] | In 2012, Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, referred to current drug control efforts as something akin to riding a stationary bicycle. "One kee ... |
| U.S. has been quietly helping Mexico with new, high-tech ways to fight opium [15.04.2018] | In the past few opiate-soaked years, U.S. officials say, nearly all the heroin coursing through American cities has come from one place: Mexico. “The ... |
| Poppies, opium, and heroin [01.03.2018] | Poppy cultivation in Mexico and Colombia is part of a local economy geared almost exclusively toward the illegal market abroad: it is driven by deman ... |
| Legal marijuana cuts violence says US study, as medical-use laws see crime fall [14.01.2018] | The introduction of medical marijuana laws has led to a sharp reduction in violent crime in US states that border Mexico, according to new research. ... |
| On the hunt for poppies In Mexico — America's biggest heroin supplier [14.01.2018] | Mexico's southwestern Guerrero state is now the top source of heroin for the American drug epidemic, which resulted in more than 64,000 overdose deat ... |
| How the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan [09.01.2018] | After fighting the longest war in its history, the US stands at the brink of defeat in Afghanistan. How could this be possible? How could the world’s ... |
| Heroin is driving a sinister trend in Afghanistan [30.10.2017] | Afghanistan has long been one of the world's biggest producers of opium and the Taliban has made a lucrative business from taxing and providing secur ... |
| Mexico opens up its heroin fight to U.S., U.N. observers [07.04.2017] | For the first time in at least a decade, Mexico's army is allowing the United States and the United Nations to observe opium poppy eradication, a ste ... |
| Advocacy group calls for reform of Burma’s drug laws and policies [17.02.2017] | The Drug Policy Advocacy Group (DPAG) has called for a reform of Burma’s drug laws, demanding new policies focusing on the rehabilitation of drug use ... |
| The new opium wars [01.02.2017] | Are pharmaceutical companies based in advanced economies the right ones to soothe the developing world’s pains? The International Narcotics Control B ... |
| Why the Parliament must carefully consider a private members’ bill to decriminalise natural drugs [03.11.2016] | In the coming session of the Parliament of India, Dharam Vira Gandhi, a member of parliament from Patiala, will table a private member’s bill to amen ... |
| Bill for legalised supply of opium, marijuana cleared for Parliament [01.11.2016] | A proposed legislation to legalise and start regulated supply of traditional intoxicants such as opium and cannabis is likely to be placed in front o ... |
| The Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP) [27.10.2016] | The voices of affected communities involved in the cultivation of coca leaf, opium poppy and cannabis plants are lacking in the global debate on drug ... |
| Will Myanmar’s economy ever kick its opium habit? [26.08.2016] | A recent report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates Myanmar had 55,000 hectares of poppies under cultivation in 2015, m ... |
| Legalise soft drugs like marijuana, opium to wean away addicts: Punjab MP [17.08.2016] | Suspended Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP from Patiala Dr Dharamvira Gandhi wants the Centre to legalise the use of drugs like opium and marijuana to discou ... |
| Dr Gandhi to move Bill to legalise recreational drugs [12.07.2016] | Patiala MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi said that he was working on an amendment to Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS) Act 1985 of India to leg ... |
| High hopes: Punjab's Swaraj Party wants to decriminalise opium & cannabis [01.07.2016] | The Swaraj Party has advocated decriminalisation of organic drugs, such as poppy husk, opium and cannabis, by bringing out a suitable amendment in th ... |
| The opium bulbs of Myanmar: drug crop or lifeline for poor farmers? [21.06.2016] | An estimated 133,000 households in Myanmar, mainly found in impoverished, remote regions, last year grew poppies across 55,500 hectares (about 137,00 ... |
| New agreement brings no end to war on drugs in ASEAN [26.04.2016] | The outcome of the UN General Assembly Special Session on drugs in New York resulted in an outcome document that brings little new to the table. Nang ... |
| Rajasthan: Opium husk ban from April 1 puts addicts, customs in a fix [01.04.2016] | A comprehensive ban on the sale of doda post, or poppy husk, from April 1 brings to a close an important chapter of Rajasthan’s social and political ... |
| Scholars, politicians kick off debate on legalising drug sale [05.02.2016] | With less than a year before the Assembly elections, several civil society activists, scholars and politicians — for the first time — have joined han ... |
| Opium poppy farmers reject crop ban, war on drugs [25.01.2016] | Opium poppy farmers from Myanmar attending an international conference on “prohibited plants” have rejected a ban on growing their crops and urged an ... |
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