• Les Cannabis Social Clubs partent en fumée

    Dépénalisation. La justice a prononcé la dissolution de la structure fédérant les coopératives de producteurs
    Libération (France)
    Mercredi, 20 juin 2013

    dominique-broc-trialLes Cannabis Social Clubs (CSC) sont en plein bad trip. Ces coopératives d’autoproducteurs avaient lancé en mars une vaste opération de désobéissance civile, sommant le gouvernement «de prendre ses responsabilités» sur la dépénalisation de la marijuana. Le tribunal de grande instance de Tours a prononcé, hier, la dissolution de la structure fédérant l’ensemble des Cannabis Social Clubs français. Ses membres ont désormais l’interdiction de se réunir.

  • What Long-Term Recovery Looks Like From Prison

    Two decades into my sentence and one decade clean, I'm embarking on a drug program with 130 other men who are close to release. No one wants to come back here. But the route to recovery is harder behind bars.
    Seth Ferranti
    The Fix (US)
    Sunday, June 16, 2013

    prison-recove-1I am near the end of a 25-year mandatory minimum sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense. I’m currently spending my 20th consecutive summer away from my loving wife and family.

  • Words Behind Walls

    Cameron Douglas
    The Huffington Post (US)
    Tuesday, June 11, 2013

    CameronDouglasWell, let me start by saying that I appreciate the opportunity to share some of my thoughts and feelings with you. I hope maybe in some way, this gives you a little window into my reality and more importantly, into my heart. So, here I sit at my little table in the belly of the beast, writing to you. I have spent close to two of my four years of incarceration in solitary confinement.

  • Latin American Nations Debate Legalizing Pot

    Josh Harkinson
    Mother Jones (US)
    Monday, June 10, 2013

    oas-1At last week's annual summit of the Organization of American States, Latin American leaders distanced themselves from the United States' drug policies and agreed to consider the widespread legalization of marijuana.

  • What is Different in the Drug Policy Debate in the Americas?

    Juan Carlos Garzón Vergara
    Project Syndicate (US)
    Sunday, June 9, 2013

    logo-PSAfter four decades of the monologue of the “war on drugs”, the Americas open the door for the debate, breaking the taboo to discuss new approaches to dealing with this problem. This does not mean that there is a consensus regarding the alternatives and even less that the legalization or decriminalization are just around the corner. This means that governments around the continent are willing to have an open debate ...

  • Declaration of Antigua Guatemala “For a comprehensive policy against the world drug problem in the Americas"

    (Adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 6, 2013)
    Thursday, June 6, 2013

    43AG-OEA-1The Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Heads of Delegation of the Member States of the Organizations of American States (OAS) gathered in Antigua, Guatemala, at the forty-third regular session of the OAS General Assembly;

    Read the Declaration: Declaration of Antigua Guatemala

  • In Mexico, guilty till proven innocent

    Maureen Meyer
    CNN (US)
    Wednesday, June 5, 2013

    meyer-mexico-prison-story-top-1The case of Yanira Maldonado brought international attention once more to the innocent people getting caught in Mexico's drug war. Maldonado, a U.S. citizen and mother of seven children, was released late last week after spending more than a week in a prison in Nogales, Mexico, accused of trying to transport marijuana aboard a bus.

  • "Le kif ne tue pas, la faim si": dans le Rif, la culture du cannabis reste vitale

    Malgré les efforts pour réduire les surfaces, cette agriculture est toujours présente car elle fait partie de la culture des habitants
    AuFait (Morocco)
    Mercredi, 5 juin 2013

    "Le kif ne vous tue pas, la faim si", résume Aberrahmane Hamoudani, ancien maire d'Issaguen, une petite ville du Rif: dans cette région pauvre du nord du Maroc, la culture du cannabis reste vitale pour la population, en dépit des efforts du gouvernement pour l'éradiquer. Pour le parlementaire Noureddine Mediane, le gouvernement devrait clairement ouvrir "un dialogue sur cette agriculture". Elle "est une réalité, qu'on le veuille ou non", argue-t-il.

  • Paris drugs shooting gallery given the go-ahead

    France 24 (France)
    Thursday, May 30, 2013

    Drug users in Paris will be able to inject themselves in a secure and monitored environment after a site near the city’s busy Gare du Nord was agreed by the city authorities. The drug consumption room would be open “by the autumn” and, once functioning, will provide free needles to drug users in a sterile environment monitored by healthcare professionals. The project is aimed at reducing the number of people taking drugs in the street, in common areas of apartment buildings and other areas such as car parks.

  • The most embarrassing graph in American drug policy

    Wonkblog
    The Washington Post (US)
    Wednesday, May 29, 2013

    embarrassing-drug-graphLaw enforcement strategies have utterly failed to even maintain street prices of the key illicit substances. This figure shows that street drug prices fell by roughly a factor of five between in 1980 and 2008. Meanwhile the number of drug offenders locked up in our jails and prisons went from fewer than 42,000 in 1980 to a peak of 562,000 in 2007. We have remarkably little evidence that the billions of dollars spent on supply-side interdiction have much impact.

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