Items tagged with law enforcement
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| Albania grapples with cannabis, a hurdle to EU accession [21.06.2017] | As Albania gears up for elections, one huge challenge facing the Balkan country has been low on the campaign agendas: the scourge of its cannabis fie ... |
| Wrecking to ‘revitalise’: São Paulo expels drug users and razes buildings, claiming public safety [16.06.2017] | On May 21, 500 civil and military police descended on the downtown neighbourhood where, since the late 1990s, hundreds to thousands of crack-cocaine ... |
| Jeff Sessions personally asked Congress to let him prosecute medical marijuana providers [13.06.2017] | Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asking congressional leaders to undo federal medical marijuana protections that have been in place since 2014, acco ... |
| Support users, don't punish them: Ex-AFP boss' radical ideas to beat the drug trade [13.06.2017] | For over half a century governments in Australia have relied heavily on law enforcement to curb the drug trade and reduce drug use. But despite huge ... |
| Pot legislation does not fail Canada’s youth. A criminal record does [10.06.2017] | The Canadian Medical Association Journal released an editorial criticizing the government’s approach to the protection of youth in the proposed Canna ... |
| Police time and money go to pot [19.05.2017] | In 2015-2016, 259 165 people were arrested for drug-related crimes, according to the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) crime statistics. The poli ... |
| Why are abuse claims in Cambodia’s war on drugs being ignored? [17.05.2017] | On New Year’s Day, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen launched a six-month crackdown on the drug scourge that he said had become an increasing grievanc ... |
| Baltimore homicide detectives to begin investigating drug overdoses [02.05.2017] | Baltimore Police have begun investigating overdoses in an effort to trace drugs back to dealers, joining a wave of Maryland law enforcement agencies ... |
| It’s time to kick our addiction to the war on drugs [25.04.2017] | As New Jersey Governor Chris Christie takes the lead in crafting the Trump administration’s response to the opioid crisis, he and his colleagues need ... |
| Tough marijuana position from national prosecutors could influence Trump policy [25.04.2017] | A federal group of prosecutors in the United States has criticized efforts at the US state level to legalize marijuana for medicinal and recreational ... |
| Canada and eight US states have done it. Why can't NSW legalise cannabis? [24.04.2017] | In Australia the long arm of the law still has a long reach, waging a war on drugs. Last year, there were more than 26,000 criminal incidents of cann ... |
| Charge Rodrigo Duterte with mass murder, lawyer tells The Hague [24.04.2017] | Filipino lawyer Jude Josue Sabio asked the International Criminal Court in The Hague to charge President Rodrigo Duterte and 11 other Philippine offi ... |
| Officers rue the return of US 'war on drugs' [18.04.2017] | Attorney General Jeff Sessions likes to reminisce about the aggressive law enforcement of the 80s and 90s and recently labelled cannabis "only slight ... |
| Police describe kill rewards, staged crime scenes in Duterte's drug war [18.04.2017] | The Philippine police have received cash payments for executing drug suspects, planted evidence at crime scenes and carried out most of the killings ... |
| Legalization plan doesn’t include amnesty for past marijuana-convictions: Liberals [17.04.2017] | The federal plan to legalize recreational marijuana does not include the general amnesty for past pot convictions some would like to see, says Public ... |
| Some Arab governments are rethinking harsh cannabis laws [12.04.2017] | The Moroccan authorities look at the issue from the other direction. Though the government bans the production of cannabis, its growth is tolerated i ... |
| The DEA chief will ‘have to check’ whether DEA lets drugs into communities on purpose. (It does) [11.04.2017] | Federal law allows informants, like those employed by the DEA, to engage in “otherwise illegal activity” as part of an investigation. Those activitie ... |
| How Jeff Sessions wants to bring back the war on drugs [08.04.2017] | When the Obama administration reduced harsh prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, rave reviews came from across the political spectrum. Civ ... |
| Toronto pot shop raids: Huge success or costly attack? [07.04.2017] | Shut down, Mayor John Tory told marijuana shop owners, or face “whatever enforcement mechanisms” the city can muster to extinguish the “wildfire” spr ... |
| Thousands dead: the Philippine president, the death squad allegations and a brutal drugs war [02.04.2017] | “Throw them in the ocean or the quarry. Make it clean. Make sure there are no traces of the bodies.” The words are shocking. That they allegedly came ... |
| Why SA should follow Portugal and decriminalise drug use [17.03.2017] | The war on drugs in South Africa, as in the US, has in no way reduced the supply or the demand of drugs. And without a doubt it’s led to an increase ... |
| How British weed growers are avoiding prosecution [15.03.2017] | The United Kingdom Cannabis Social Clubs (UKCSC) have recently launched a system that, in theory, would help you battle a court case if your grow was ... |
| Morocco and Cannabis [10.03.2017] | This policy briefing discusses whether or not the aim of reducing cannabis cultivation is realistic or beneficial for Morocco, what it would actually ... |
| Durham police will give addicts heroin to inject in 'shooting galleries' [05.03.2017] | Heroin addicts will be given supplies to inject in specially designated “shooting galleries” under radical plans to tackle drug-related crime in Durh ... |
| Philippines police plant evidence to justify killings in drug war, says report [02.03.2017] | Human Rights Watch has accused Philippines police of falsifying evidence to justify unlawful killings in the government’s war on drugs that has cause ... |
| 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 ... |
| A rare survivor of a Philippine drug raid takes the police to court [10.02.2017] | As the only known survivor of a so-called buy-bust operation, Mr. Morillo has provided a chilling first-person account that challenges the government ... |
| In Duterte’s footsteps, Hun Sen launches a drug war [09.02.2017] | Cambodia’s newly launched war on drugs is in full swing, with nearly 3,000 people arrested in the campaign’s first month of crime-busting. Authoritie ... |
| Drug control policy fuels social unrest in northern Morocco [08.02.2017] | For the past three months, the Rif region in northern Morocco has been experiencing widespread protests and social unrest following the death of Mouh ... |
| Marijuana legalization must include justice reform [31.01.2017] | Across the US, we routinely take a pledge that ends in “with liberty and justice for all.” Yet that fundamental promise has been broken in six of the ... |
| Boulder DA Stan Garnett named to group that will advise Trump administration on pot [30.01.2017] | The National District Attorney's Association created a policy group featuring 14 district attorneys from across the country who will issue advisement ... |
| Families of slain Filipinos file Supreme Court challenge to Rodrigo Duterte’s drugs war [26.01.2017] | Families of alleged drugs suspects killed by Philippine police petitioned the Supreme Court on Thursday to force police to disclose evidence linking ... |
| Albania: Europe's cannabis paradise [02.01.2017] | Despite all its promises, the Albanian government under Prime Minister Edi Rama has not managed to significantly reduce poverty in the country. Unemp ... |
| The growing movement for marijuana amnesty [22.12.2016] | With an estimated $7 billion in sales in 2016 and potentially exponential growth due to recent ballot initiatives on recreational use, the legal mari ... |
| 'They are slaughtering us like animals' [06.12.2016] | I had come to document the bloody and chaotic campaign against drugs that President Rodrigo Duterte began when he took office on June 30: since then ... |
| Medical marijuana is legal in California. Except when it’s not [21.11.2016] | California’s multibillion-dollar marijuana industry, by far the nation’s largest, is crawling out from the underbrush after voters opted to legalize ... |
| Donald Trump’s attorney general pick could destroy the recreational pot industry [21.11.2016] | Attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is a fervent foe of marijuana legalization. But if he were confirmed as President-elect Trump’s ... |
| Pusher Street: Christiania’s problem child [07.11.2016] | Christiania’s Pusher Street has been through a rough summer. During June and July police carried out a series of raids, removing booths and arresting ... |
| Obama: Federal prohibition not ‘tenable’ after state marijuana votes [04.11.2016] | President Obama says that federal laws banning marijuana will likely have to change if new states vote to legalize the drug on Tuesday. “The good new ... |
| Found in the dark [20.10.2016] | Some 400 people were charged with being “found in the dark” in Yangon, Myanmar in the first five months of 2015 alone. The charge carries a prison te ... |
| How our tax dollars are used to fund opposition to marijuana legalization, in a clear violation of ethics [19.10.2016] | This year the pharmaceutical, alcohol and prison food industries have all weighed in to oppose marijuana legalization initiatives across the country. ... |
| These British police forces have stopped arresting drug users [18.10.2016] | People caught carrying personal amounts of drugs, including cocaine and heroin, are being diverted away from the criminal justice system in what coul ... |
| Police arrest more people for marijuana use than for all violent crimes — combined [12.10.2016] | On any given day in the United States, at least 137,000 people sit behind bars on simple drug-possession charges, according to a report released by t ... |
| Duterte’s war on drugs: bitter lessons from Thailand’s failed campaign [28.09.2016] | The body count from Philippine President Duterte’s “war on drugs” is growing by the day; more than 3,000 casualties leading to broad international co ... |
| Marijuana arrests fall to lowest level since 1996 [25.09.2016] | Arrests for simple marijuana possession in the United States fell to nearly a two-decade low last year, according to new statistics released Monday b ... |
| Paradise lost: does Copenhagen’s Christiania commune still have a future? [22.09.2016] | In recent years the cannabis in Christiania trade has evolved. Once led by small-time dealers, it is now controlled by large, multinational organisat ... |
| Review ganja laws [22.09.2016] | The Government of Barbados will have to face the fact that more and more Barbadians, particularly young people, are open to the decriminalization of ... |
| Stop and search still targets black people, police watchdog says [20.09.2016] | Police stops of black people are still at an “eye-watering” level compared with white people, the official police watchdog said and promised a fresh ... |
| Duterte’s fiercest critic booted from committee investigating killings [19.09.2016] | Accused of bias after she allowed a self-confessed hitman to link Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to over a thousand murders, Senator Leila De L ... |
| Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to extend drug war as 'cannot kill them all' [18.09.2016] | Rodrigo Duterte has asked for a six-month extension for his war on drugs, saying there are too many people involved in the narcotics trade and he "ca ... |
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