Given the total lack of empirical literature describing the effectiveness of compassion clubs as an overdose prevention initiative, the project was subjected to evaluation throughout its operation. Herein we report on the impact of DULF compassion club enrolment on non-fatal overdose rates amongst program participants, and thereby seek to contribute to the literature specific to compassion clubs and non-prescriber-based models of safe supply.
Germany’s parliament has passed a law allowing individuals and voluntary associations to grow and hold limited quantities of cannabis, making it the latest in a small group of countries and jurisdictions to legalise the drug, at least in part.
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19 government officials and high level experts from around the world describe in great detail the misery, the ineptitude, the corruption and the many other horrors we inflict on ourselves and the whole world via an eternal belief in the policy of drug prohibition.
“I was removed from my position as Chief Advisor of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) in October 2009. A decade later, UK drug policy has done nothing but go backwards. We are currently in a worse position now than we were 10 years ago. However, there is a path to a brave new world. Back in 2009, I was making it clear to the UK Government that the evidence that we had back then was that cannabis was less harmful than both alcohol or tobacco. ” – Professor David Nutt
https://drugscience.org.uk/groundhog-decade-not-brave-new-world/
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The founder of Drug Policy Alliance argues that the current laws are a waste of money and ultimately harmful
More and more Americans agree that people with drug problems “deserve treatment, not punishment,” that “we can’t incarcerate our way out of the drug problem,” and that it’s a waste of taxpayer resources to keep locking up people whose only offense is possessing drugs for their own use.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/united-states-decriminalize-drug-possession-nadelmann-760001/