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CND 2015 Side Event: E-Book of Authorities
E-Book of Authorities launched at 2015 CND to support international drug policy debates and negotiations
The “E-Book of Authorities” is a civil society-led project to catalogue agreed UN statements and language on a selection of key topics. It aims to show the extent of existing international support for evidence-based drug policies, and to support international drug policy discussions, debates and negotiations.Visit the E-Book of Authorities
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Drug policy innovations in the Americas
13:15 to 14:45, Mozart Room, VIC Restaurant, UN - Vienna
In recent years, the Americas have been at the forefront of calls for a meaningful review of traditional approaches to drug control based on tough law enforcement and incarceration. The region has borne many of the costs of this approach, including enduring prison overcrowding, violence, and the proliferation of organised criminal organisations. Past policies have caused considerable health and social harms as well. Forced crop eradication programmes have only contributed to cycles of poverty and punitive responses to drug consumption have expanded in lieu of public health approaches.Side Event "Drug policy innovation in the Americas"
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The IISS Cartagena Dialogue: The Trans-Pacific Summit
Cartagena (Colombia), 6-8 March 2015
The IISS Cartagena Dialogue focused on the developing relations between the Latin American states of the ‘Pacific Alliance’ and key countries from the Asia-Pacific.
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Exploring the Land-Drugs Nexus
New York, 19-21 October 2014
This conference will explore the nexus between land and drugs.Download Conference Agenda (PDF, 127KB)
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International Impacts of the U.S. Trend towards Legal Marijuana
Washington D.C., October 17, 2014
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For decades, the United States has been a champion of the global drug control treaty system, which limits the use of marijuana exclusively to medical and scientific purposes, and obligates governments to punish and even criminalize recreational marijuana activity. But American attitudes toward marijuana policy are shifting: voters in Colorado and Washington approved ballot initiatives to legalize regulated recreational marijuana in 2012, and recent polls suggest that the majority of Americans think marijuana use should be legalized. -
Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives on counternarcotics regimes and UNGASS 2016
Washington, DC, 16 October 2014
The approaching 2016 UNGASS and the meetings that will follow provide an important opportunity to reexamine the existing regime and improve global drug policy through robust policy evaluations and improvements.
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V Latin American and I Central American Conference on Drug Policy
San José, Costa Rica, 3-4 September 2014
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In this edition, the 5th Latin American and 1st Central American Conference on Drug Policy aims to be a platform for discussion and elaboration of solution-oriented proposals. The production and use of drugs is a complex phenomenon, with multiple manifestations according to the historical moment, cultural environment, economic model, the particular circumstances of a country, the different significances assigned by subjects, as well as the actual differences between substances. Nevertheless, it is reduced and homogenized as the “drug problem”, as if it was a uniform, unhistorical phenomenon. -
Mind Your Eye 2014
Aruba, 31 May 2014
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This year the Mind Your Eye conference will deal with the impact the drug problem has on businesses and on security, as well with alternatives to deal with the drug problem. -
Global Experiences with Harm Reduction for Stimulants and New Psychoactive Substances
Expert Seminar
Vatican City, 20 May 2014
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The objective of this seminar is to compare the findings on innovative tools for the prevention of problematic cocaine use patterns, with experiences with harm reduction measures for stimulants in other regions of world. -
Monitoring and evaluating Uruguay’s new law regulating cannabis
57th Session of the CND, March 18, 2014
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This side event will be an opportunity for Uruguay’s National Drugs Board to present the country’s new legislation, and open constructive debates on the implications of such policy at the national and international level. See the CNDblog for a report of the proceedings.
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