Looking at the Effects of Bill Clinton’s Signature Drug War Project By Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle The United States has been trying to suppress Colombian coca production and cocaine trafficking since at least the time of Ronald Reagan, but the contemporary phase of US intervention in Colombia in […]
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HIV Shoots Up
British Medical Journal On Harm Reduction Strict laws on the criminalisation of drug use and drug users are fuelling the spread of HIV and other serious harms associated with the criminal market and should be reviewed, say experts. In this video, epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani and other leading commentators describe which […]
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An Alternative To The War On Drugs
By Stephen Rolles, senior policy analyst Stephen Rolles argues that we need to end the criminalisation of drugs and instead set up regulatory models that will control drug markets and reduce the health and social harms caused by current policy
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New Poll Shows 70% Support For Legal Regulation Of Cannabis
Poll commissioned by LDDPR demonstrates public are ready for drugs discussion Three other drugs: Magic Mushrooms, Amphetamines, and Mephedrone show a majority in favour of legalisation and regulation, whilst 3 in 10 people would prefer the state regulate rather than prohibit heroin supply. These poll results demonstrate that the public […]
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Prison Reform And The Cost Of Drug Prohibition
The Adam Smith Institute Blog The decriminalization of drugs has the potential to save the British taxpayer money, and simultaneously improve the security and health of the general public. By Karthik Reddy, Guest blogger Faced with the dire need to restore discipline to British public finances and a rising rate […]
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Why I Support the Vienna Declaration
As support for the Vienna Declaration grows we will be profiling signatories and members of our writing committee here and in our blog. Check back regularly for updates and to learn more about who is supporting evidence-based drug policy, and why.
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Marijuana Law Reform Is a Civil Rights Issue
By Alice Huffman, President of the California NAACP “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” said the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1967 when he spoke out against the Vietnam War. At the time, he was roundly criticized by friend and foe alike for […]
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Racist Enforcement of Marijuana Laws
Prison jail Hands on Bars 60 x 85DPA has released a report that documents widespread race-based disparities in the enforcement of low-level marijuana possession laws in California. The report finds that African Americans are arrested for marijuana possession at double, triple or even quadruple the rate of whites. Read the report (PDF).