Items tagged with decriminalization
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| Criminologist refutes cannabis-related crime increase claims [07.04.2013] | Criminologist Professor Alex Stevens has refuted media reports that reducing penalties for cannabis possession has led to increased drug use, crime a ... |
| The present continuous of cannabis clubs in Catalonia [29.03.2013] | The exponential proliferation of the number of associations, clubs and other groups that distribute cannabis among their members and create new space ... |
| 'This is working' [26.03.2013] | Twelve years ago, Portugal eliminated criminal penalties for drug users. Since then, those caught with small amounts of marijuana, cocaine or heroin ... |
| Shafer Commission Report on Marijuana and Drugs, issued 40 years ago, was ahead of its time [22.03.2013] | Forty years ago, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse said in its final report: "A coherent social policy requires a fundamental alter ... |
| Drop charges over ecstasy, police urged [21.03.2013] | Ecstasy users should not be charged by police, former Labor health minister Neal Blewett said during a provocative keynote address to the peak police ... |
| Duped by dope [21.03.2013] | Germany's law-enforcement and legal apparatus devotes enormous resources to fighting illegal narcotics. But users are always a step ahead, and lawmak ... |
| A case for use of resources [16.03.2013] | Barbados High Court Judge Randall Worrell shocked Barbadians when he suggested laws here should be reviewed to decriminalize drug use and possession ... |
| Norway mulls decriminalising heroin smoking [28.02.2013] | The Norwegian government it wants to decriminalise the inhalation of heroin, a method considered less dangerous than injecting it, to reduce the numb ... |
| Marijuana legalization may be unstoppable [28.02.2013] | US Attorney General Eric Holder told America to expect a decision "soon" on how he'll respond to the recent legalization of pot by Colorado and Washi ... |
| Towards a ceasefire [22.02.2013] | Partial reforms have their limits. Most drug crime is not cannabis-related. Moving from punishment to harm reduction may help drug users, but it leav ... |
| Mayor Bloomberg makes a small step toward a rational policy on marijuana [19.02.2013] | In his final state of the city address as Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, announced that anyone caught in possession of marijuana would no long ... |
| How does a Cannabis Social Club work? [18.02.2013] | What was originally a small group of friends, has become a feasible alternative to the cannabis black market in the north of Belgium. Our guest autho ... |
| Les Cannabis Social Clubs forcent la loi [15.02.2013] | Ils sont chefs d’entreprises, éducateurs spécialisés, universitaires, produisent eux-mêmes le cannabis qu’ils fument, et entendent «renverser la proh ... |
| Decriminalise heroin and cocaine says Belfast drugs worker [14.02.2013] | One of Northern Ireland's most senior drugs workers has said that class A drugs like heroin should be decriminalised, regulated and made available on ... |
| New York City plans to stop booking, arraigning many low-level marijuana suspects [14.02.2013] | Many people arrested on low-level marijuana-possession charges in the nation’s largest city will no longer be booked and held hours for arraignment, ... |
| New drug bill 'to decriminalise ecstasy' in Colombia [30.01.2013] | Colombia's Justice Minister, Ruth Stella Correa, has said a new drugs bill would decriminalise personal use of synthetic drugs, such as ecstasy. The ... |
| Davos 2013: Soros calls for new strategy on drugs [23.01.2013] | George Soros has called for an end to the West's "war on drugs". Soros has thrown his weight behind a push by Guatemalan President Perez Molina, who ... |
| Towards a Safer Drug Policy [14.01.2013] | For forty years the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 has formed the corner stone of drug policy in Britain. The emergence of new psychoactive substances (‘le ... |
| Make legal highs available for sale, government urged [14.01.2013] | The least harmful new "legal highs" should be made readily available for sale under strictly regulated conditions rather than being immediately banne ... |
| Decriminalise drugs – it would reduce the level of harm in Britain [13.01.2013] | The all-party parliamentary group on drug policy reform undertook an inquiry into the implications of the arrival of "legal highs" – a new substance ... |
| Roadmaps for Reforming the UN Drug Conventions [30.12.2012] | The three UN Drug Conventions of 1961, 1971 and 1988 currently impose a ‘one-size-fits-all’ prohibitionist approach to drug policy throughout the wor ... |
| Les coopératives de cannabis sans but lucratif aspirent à la légalité [25.12.2012] | L'autoculture de cannabis croît et se multiplie. C'est la tendance observée par l'Observatoire français des drogues et des toxicomanies (OFDT) qui dé ... |
| How to do drugs right [24.12.2012] | Recently, two states in the US, Washington and Colorado, liberalised their narcotics laws and decriminalised recreational marijuana. India though, is ... |
| For medicinal use only? [17.12.2012] | The Czech Republic already has one of the world’s most liberal approach to recreational drug possession. And it will get more liberal still: beginnin ... |
| Nick Clegg and David Cameron clash over drug law reforms [14.12.2012] | Divisions between David Cameron and Nick Clegg over Britain's "war on drugs" emerged on Friday after the Liberal Democrat leader said that current po ... |
| David Cameron urged to take 'now or never' step on drugs reform [09.12.2012] | David Cameron should urgently set up a royal commission to consider all the alternatives to Britain's failing drug laws, including decriminalisation ... |
| Portuguese drug policy shows that decriminalisation can work [09.12.2012] | The Home Affairs Select Committee in the United Kingdom report on drug policy draws on lessons from Portugal’s decriminalisation of drug possession a ... |
| Portugal: Ten years after decriminalization [26.11.2012] | In 2001, a small European country, Portugal, took a brave step, changing its drug policies and refocussing its efforts away from arresting and crimin ... |
| Marijuana decriminalization law brings down juvenile arrests in California [25.11.2012] | Marijuana is one of the primary reasons why California experienced a stunning 20 percent drop in juvenile arrests in just one year, between 2010 and ... |
| Victims of the Latin American war on drugs make the case for reform [09.11.2012] | Latin American drug policies have made no dent in the drug trade; instead they have taken a tremendous toll on human lives. In 2009, the Washington O ... |
| Taking the initiative on legal marijuana [05.11.2012] | Two years ago, California’s bid to legalize marijuana—Proposition 19—achieved great notoriety in Latin America, but ultimately fell short at the ball ... |
| Bogotá’s medical care centres for drug addicts (CAMAD) [31.10.2012] | In September 2012, the mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, launched the first centre for drug addicts in the Bronx, a marginalised city-centre neighbourh ... |
| Portugal progresses toward integrated cannabis regulation [25.10.2012] | In recent years there has been much talk of the so-called “Portuguese model,” based on an initiative that led to the use of illicit drugs being decri ... |
| Could drug decriminalization save Brazil’s slums? [24.10.2012] | Brazil has been struggling with drug violence for years. The problem got so bad that the country passed a law in 2006 to distinguish between dealers ... |
| It's drugs politics, not drugs policy, that needs an inquiry [16.10.2012] | What should be researched is not drugs policy but drugs politics, the hold that taboo has on those in power, and the thrall that rightwing newspapers ... |
| France’s Minister of Education favours cannabis decriminalisation [15.10.2012] | Speaking on radio France Inter, Vincent Peillon said, "This is a major issue. I now see almost every night on television reports of illicit trafficki ... |
| Decriminalise drug use, say experts after six-year study [15.10.2012] | A six-year study of Britain's drug laws by leading scientists, police officers, academics and experts has concluded it is time to introduce decrimina ... |
| B.C. favours sensible marijuana policy [05.10.2012] | Last week, delegates at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention voted in support of the decriminalization and taxation of marijuana. This vote wa ... |
| Amidst deep concern for Thailand's drug policies, some space for open debate [27.09.2012] | On 17th September, 2012, IDPC together with the Transnational Institute (TNI) held a high-level seminar in Bangkok co-hosted with the Thai Ministry o ... |
| B.C. municipal leaders vote to work toward decriminalizing marijuana [26.09.2012] | British Columbia’s municipal politicians, sensing shifting emotional attitudes towards marijuana and a possible major new revenue source, voted to lo ... |
| Pot decriminalization debated by B.C.'s municipal leaders [23.09.2012] | Former B.C. attorney general Geoff Plant said the debate comes as Washington looks at a tax and regulation plan, and this is an opportunity for a coo ... |
| Cannabis consumption to be liberalised [20.09.2012] | Despite dogged opposition by conservatives, parliament has approved a proposal to impose a fine on consumers of small amounts of cannabis instead of ... |
| Fix to B.C.’s ‘drug problem’ is easy: legalize marijuana [20.09.2012] | With three western American states mulling legalized marijuana and the Union of B.C. Municipalities set to debate it, a new group wants the province ... |
| Drug use is an issue for society, not the criminal justice system [10.09.2012] | There is no reliable evidence that tougher criminal sanctions deter drug use or offending. On the contrary, criminalisation worsens the health and we ... |
| Legal use of cannabis, ecstasy for over-15s backed by state medical body [10.09.2012] | A report by a group of prominent Australians that recommends Australia rethink its criminalisation of illicit drugs has been backed by the Victorian ... |
| Once a model, crisis imperils Portugal's drug programme [13.08.2012] | Portugal's famously liberal drug policy has been held up as a model for other countries - Norway is considering adopting parts of it and countries as ... |
| Chilean president signs drug prevention law into effect [12.08.2012] | President Sebastián Piñera signed the new Drug and Alcohol Prevention Act into law on Monday, which sets up an educational program to warn schoolchil ... |
| “In Portugal, We Fight the Illness, Not the People Who Suffer from It” [30.07.2012] | Portugal’s anti-drug policies have been gaining international visibility since this country's 2001 decision to eliminate all criminal penalties for p ... |
| Conservatives seek punishment for drug-using politicians in Chile [29.07.2012] | In the face of a renewed discussion on the possible decriminalization of marijuana in Chile, conservative politicians called for the revival of a con ... |
| Chilean senator's confession heats debate on legalising marijuana [26.07.2012] | Marijuana remains an illegal substance in Chile, but there are a growing number of shops in the country which sell cannabis products. A recent admiss ... |
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