Drug Policy , Question of the Week

Size of Illegal Drug Market

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Drug Policy Question of the Week – 3-12-12 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 3-12-12. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3787 Question of the Week: What is the size of the global illegal drug market? A 1994 report from the United Nations called “the […]

Events

’Occupy UNODC Vienna 2012

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With the slogan ’Occupy UNODC Vienna 2012’ the critics of current drug policies based on three UN Conventions will unite during the forthcoming annual meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Fifty years after the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs was launched, the global war on drugs has […]

Announcements , Events

The War on Drugs : Versus Debate : 13th March, 7pm GMT

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Julian Assange and Richard Branson; Russell Brand and Misha Glenny; Geoffrey Robertson and Eliot Spitzer. Experts, orators and celebrities who’ve made this their cause – come and see them lock horns in a new Intelligence2/Google+ debate format. Some of our speakers will be on stage in London, others beamed in […]

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The War on Drugs survey – what do you think?

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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 […]

Law Enforcement & Prisons , Question of the Week

Race and Prison

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Drug Policy Question of the Week – 2-28-12 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 2-28-12. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3770 Question of the Week: How many people of color are under the control of the U.S. corrections system? In its analysis of racial […]

Drug Policy , Question of the Week

Celebrity Overdose

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Drug Policy Question of the Week – 2-21-12 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 2-21-12. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3759 Question of the Week: Why have there been so many reports of celebrity overdoses? From Heath Ledger, to Michael Jackson, to Amy Winehouse, […]