Items tagged with law enforcement

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As the mayor of Amsterdam, I can see the Netherlands risks becoming a narco-state [05.01.2024] In the Netherlands, we used to look on the international “war on drugs” with a certain amount of disdain. Its solutions were prohibition, criminalisa ...
Barcelona city council threatens to shut down cannabis social clubs [04.01.2024] The Barcelona City Council is considering tightening regulations on access to cannabis social clubs. The concept of cannabis social clubs has drawn n ...
After 50 years, a Danish commune is shaken from Its utopian dream [05.12.2023] Founded in 1971 by squatters on an abandoned military base, Christiania was devised as a post-’60s anarchistic utopia, where people could live outsid ...
‘Prohibition is failing’ [15.11.2023] Former Australian Federal Police boss Mick Palmer has said the prohibition of cannabis use “is not just failing, it is causing real harm” as he descr ...
Spain’s confusing cannabis policies spark similar problems faced by US states [12.11.2023] “For some years, there was the possibility to regulate and keep it in the hands of those who aren’t crime-related,” said Óscar Parés, deputy director ...
Nurses condemn the arrests of safe supply providers [31.10.2023] With drug poisoning (overdose) now the leading cause of death in British Columbia, there remains an urgent need to invest in and scale up safe supply ...
DULF organizers arrested for operating safe drug compassion club [26.10.2023] Vancouver police have arrested drug policy activists Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum after executing search warrants on the Drug User Liberation Front of ...
Cannabis in Canada: Debunking myths about the real impacts of legalization [09.10.2023] Before Canada legalized recreational cannabis in October 2018, there was considerable debate about its potential effects. Some predicted it would tri ...
Christiania plan could push drug crime into other parts of Copenhagen: MP [07.09.2023] A government plan to shut down the Christiania ‘Pusher Street’ cannabis market and double drug penalties in the zone risks pushing crime into other p ...
Christiania hash sellers could get prison as ‘permanent closure’ announced for Pusher Street market [06.09.2023] The new law will target a specially designated zone in which fines for possession will be doubled even for a first offence. Any subsequent offence wi ...
Instant fines for drug possession in Belgium: €1,000 for cocaine [06.08.2023] More than a thousand immediate fines were levied in Belgium for possession of drugs during July alone, mainly at festivals, according to Justice Mini ...
Court: Swiss police can’t seize small amounts of cannabis for personal use [25.07.2023] The possession of small quantities of cannabis, if for personal use rather than re-sale, is already not treated as a criminal offense in Switzerland. ...
State and city reach agreement to close down Pusher Street [27.06.2023] Pusher Street is no ordinary thoroughfare. For decades, it has housed numerous stalls selling cannabis to the public in open view. During that time, ...
Mayor looking to shut down Pusher Street permanently [04.05.2023] Mayor Sophie Hæstorp Andersen is indicating that she wants to completely shut down Pusher Street due to the violence associated with the illegal cann ...
How did Sweden end up with its zero-tolerance attitude to drugs? [03.05.2023] Johan Wicklén, a prize-winning journalist for Sweden's public broadcaster SVT, published a book on the history of Swedish drugs policy titled Vi ger ...
Singapore executes man for cannabis trafficking [25.04.2023] Singapore executed a man accused of coordinating a cannabis delivery, despite pleas for clemency from his family and protests from activists. The Uni ...
Australia spends billions ‘failing to police’ cannabis that earns black market $25bn a year, Greens say [17.03.2023] Australia’s cannabis industry could be earning the black market $25bn a year and, rather than policing it, we could be gaining revenue from it by leg ...
Willful blindness: INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation [14.03.2023] In its report for 2022, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the “independent, quasi-judicial expert body” that monitors the implementat ...
America has lost the War on Drugs. Here’s what needs to happen next [22.02.2023] For a forgotten moment, at the very start of the United States’ half-century long war on drugs, public health was the weapon of choice. Before long, ...
Legalising cocaine would stem drug violence, Belgian criminologist suggests [21.01.2023] After an 11-year-old girl died recently due to a shooting incident in Merksem, politicians have stressed that tackling narco-terror is a top priority ...
Marijuana law reached peak absurdity in 2022 [24.12.2022] Banning a plant with hundreds of industrial and medical uses was never going to work out well, but 2022 saw marijuana prohibition reach peak absurdit ...
Decriminalising cannabis could save Australian taxpayers $850m a year, report finds [08.12.2022] Australia is not keeping pace with global best practice cannabis policy, a report from the public health research organisation the Penington Institut ...
Czech Republic on the way to legalizing cannabis [02.11.2022] Tourists in Prague may get the impression that the Czech capital is also the cannabis capital of Europe. From stickers to posters, the iconic leaf of ...
What's the deal with those ‘Dispenseroo’ weed adverts across London? [15.09.2022] Cannabis dealers who stuck hundreds of unauthorised adverts on London's Tube trains say they are now swamped with orders and have more guerrilla mark ...
The reality of legal weed in California: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths [08.09.2022] Proposition 64, California’s 2016 landmark cannabis initiative, sold voters on the promise a legal market would cripple the drug’s outlaw trade, with ...
Is Austria set to legalise cannabis use? [19.05.2022] Austria has a very complex system when it comes to its drug laws and regulations, but in short: no, cannabis is not legal in the alpine country. Peop ...
Street dealers dealt with in Amsterdam anti-drug campaign [23.04.2022] As tourists return in full force to the Amsterdam red light district, Amsterdam city council has met them with police action and a campaign warning v ...
Amsterdam to ban coffeeshops selling weed to tourists [12.04.2022] Mayor Femke Halsema plans to go through with a ban on coffeeshops selling weed to tourists in Amsterdam, she said in a letter to the city council. Ac ...
Dutch police busted fewer cannabis plantations, drug labs last year [04.04.2022] The police busted and dismantled fewer synthetic drug labs and cannabis plantations last year, latest figures show. The number of discovered drug lab ...
The Tenderloin suffers under another inhumane crackdown [30.03.2022] In December, San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a state of emergency in the Tenderloin (TL), a neighborhood which has long been home to some o ...
In Malta, confusion over cannabis law after doctor arrested for drug dealing [24.03.2022] Malta has been rocked by the arrest of a local doctor, Andrew Agius, for distributing cannabis mere months after the island became the first in Europ ...
Cannabis law still reflects discriminatory practices: Andrew Bonello [17.03.2022] The reform enacted by the Maltese government in 2021 Act No. LXVI to establish the Authority on the Responsible Use of Cannabis and to amend various ...
Sadiq Khan drug ‘decriminalisation’ plan ‘does not go far enough’, say experts [05.01.2022] Sadiq Khan’s proposed plan to end the prosecution of young people caught with cannabis in three London boroughs “does not go far enough”, according t ...
D.A. Chesa Boudin joins critics of Breed’s Tenderloin crackdown to protest plan [20.12.2021] District Attorney Chesa Boudin joined other elected officials and activists to criticize Mayor London Breed’s plan to flood San Francisco’s Tenderloi ...
S.F. Mayor Breed declares state of emergency in the Tenderloin [18.12.2021] San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a state of emergency in the Tenderloin, allowing city officials to bypass some bureaucratic hurdles as they ...
‘We will give up ganja cultivation if MSP is guaranteed for agriculture produce,’ say Odisha villagers [23.11.2021] Despite knowing that they could be penalised under provisions of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, for growing cannabis, vil ...
Germany moves to legalise cannabis in economy-boosting bid after Merkel departure [18.11.2021] The political parties known as the "traffic light" coalition are pushing for a change in legislation meaning the sale of cannabis will be legal for c ...
Radical relook at drug policies puts human rights into equation [09.11.2021] A “radically innovative” new analysis of global drug policies has laid bare the full impact repressive drug laws and their implementation have on mil ...
You’ll never have a drug-free society, expert warns UK [07.11.2021] The Home Office should climb off its “high horse of oppression and prohibition” and stop pursuing the “fantasy” of a drug-free society, the chair of ...
The pros, cons and unknowns of legal cannabis in Canada 3 years later [24.10.2021] The legalization of cannabis in Canada just had its third anniversary, which means it's time for the federal government to review and possibly tweak ...
Graft, drug trafficking threaten Albania's chances of joining EU [04.10.2021] Researcher Fatjona Mejdini states that the drug problem had its roots in 1991, when Albania went from an isolated communist dictatorship straight to ...
UK drug laws used as tool of systemic racism, says ex-No 10 adviser [29.09.2021] Britain’s drug laws are racist and cause “high levels of mental health harm” among black people, a former No 10 race adviser has said. Simon Woolley ...
Autistic man set out of home ‘after growing single cannabis plant’ [18.06.2021] The mayor of a town in North Brabant has been accused of acting too harshly after allegedly setting an autistic man out of his home when he was disco ...
Tough local drug law enforcement ‘making innocent people homeless’ [14.05.2021] Tough anti-drug enforcement is making innocent citizens and children homeless, according to ombudsmen in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague. Each yea ...
Generations of Albanians lived off cannabis production. Can they stop? [12.04.2021] Large-scale cannabis cultivation in Albania dates to the early 1990s, not long after the fall of the country’s Communist dictatorship, when the parlo ...
Colombia’s cartels target Europe with cocaine, corruption and torture [11.04.2021] At 5am on a chilly Tuesday morning last month, 1,600 police officers and balaclava-wearing special forces, bristling with arms and battering rams, we ...
Christiania residence ban an abuse of power, contends Danish Institute for Human Rights [31.03.2021] Christoffer Badse, the head of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, has accused the government of abusing its power with the continuance of its res ...
Met may change stop and search tactics on cannabis possession [18.03.2021] The Metropolitan police could change how it deals with cannabis possession amid concerns stop and search powers damage community relations, and yield ...
Tunisia slashes 30-year jail terms for pot-smoking trio [10.03.2021] A court significantly reduced 30-year jail terms for three Tunisians convicted of smoking cannabis, in a case that sparked debate in the country abou ...
House OKs bill that presumes drug suspects guilty until proven innocent [02.03.2021] The House of Representatives passed a bill providing for legal presumption on who is considered an importer, financier, or protector of illegal drugs ...

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