And The Results Are Staggering On July 1st, 2001, Portugal decriminalized every imaginable drug, from marijuana, to cocaine, to heroin. Some thought Lisbon would become a drug tourist haven, others predicted usage rates among youths to surge. Eleven years later, it turns out they were both wrong. Over a decade […]
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Stop The Drug War To Fight AIDS
The war on drugs is a failure and immediate, major reforms of the global drug prohibition regime are needed to halt the spread of HIV infection and other drug war harms. Today we launched a new Global Commission on Drug Policy report with a livestreamed conference from London, calling for […]
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David Nutt Reveals The Truth About Drugs
Professor David Nutt discusses his book Drugs – Without the Hot Air, and argues that society’s prohibition of psychedelic substances is preventing groundbreaking science.
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Drug Policy and Democracy in Central America
A View from Guatemala Secretary Fernando Carrera discussed recent proposals made by Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina regarding drug legalization.
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Is Drug War Driven Mass Incarceration the New Jim Crow?
By Bill Frezza Once in a great while a writer at the opposite end of the political spectrum gets you to look at a familiar set of facts in a new way. Disconcerting as it is, you can feel your foundation shift as your mind struggles to reconcile this new […]
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The War on Drugs survey – what do you think?
By Richard Branson One minute survey: We believe it is time to end the criminalisation and stigmatising of drug users to more effectively combat drug use and drug related crime. Criminal syndicates should face the law and jail time but people with drug problems need health care, not prison! We […]