• Español
  • English
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • rss
  • Español
  • English
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • rss
TNI D&D
  • Home
  • About us
    • About us
    • People
    • Partners
    • Researchers
    • Contact us
    • In the media
    • Newsletter
  • Newsroom
    • Press contacts
    • Press releases
    • Resources
    • Drugs in the news
  • Issues
    • Drug policy debate in the Americas
    • Decriminalization
    • Proportionality of sentences
    • Harm reduction
    • Reclassification of substances
    • Safer crack use
    • Human rights
    • Regulation
    • Unscheduling the coca leaf
    • Ending the war on drugs
    • Alternative development
    • Cannabis
    • Producers of Crops
    • Law enforcement
    • ATS, Mild stimulants & NPS
    • European Drug Policy
    • Money Laundering
  • UN Drug
    Control
    • Conventions
    • UNODC
    • CND
    • INCB
    • UNGASS
  • Country
    information
    • Drug Law Reform on the Map
    • Central America
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Costa Rica
    • Latin America
      • Argentina
      • Bolivia
      • Paraguay
      • Brazil
      • Chile
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Peru
      • Uruguay
      • Venezuela
    • Mexico
    • Caribbean
      • Jamaica
      • Belize
    • Afghanistan
  • Events
    • Expert Seminars
    • Informal Policy Dialogues
    • Public Events
    • Judges for Law Reform
  • Publications
    • Drug Policy Briefings
    • Drug Law Reform
    • Legislative Reform Series
    • The Human Face
    • Drugs & conflict
    • Drugs and the Law (CEDD)
      • Systems overload
    • Drug Markets and Violence
  • Weblog

 

Tag: regulation

Search / Filtering
Text Search
Filters changed, please click to submit when done
All ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
0123456789
Results 1401 - 1450 of 1454
Page 29 of 30
  • A French economist argues for the legalization of cannabis

    Tuesday, 02 August 2011

    University of Paris economist Pierre Kopp wants to legalize marijuana for entirely economic reasons. Kopp tells Le Monde : "For economists, the public good is that which minimizes the cost to society ...

    Labels
    legalization | regulation | cannabis
    Read more...
  • Marijuana bill officially introduced to Congress by Ron Paul, Barney Frank

    Thursday, 23 June 2011

    Marijuana laws should be set at the state, not federal, level, Reps. Ron Paul and Barney Frank argued in a bill they introduced Thursday. The goal of the bill, HR 2306 or the Ending Federal Marijuana ...

    Labels
    regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
    Read more...
  • Global Commission on Drug Policy Report

    Thursday, 02 June 2011
    Global Commission on Drug Policy Report

    The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and 4 ...

    Labels
    global commission | regulation | UN drug control | proportionality | reclassification | harm reduction | decriminalization
    Read more...
  • Taking Drugs Seriously

    Tuesday, 17 May 2011
    Taking Drugs Seriously

    Since first coming to public prominence at the end of 2009, legal highs have posed a major challenge to existing legal and legislative structures designed to deal with drugs. With the market in manuf ...

    Labels
    legal highs | regulation
    Read more...
  • Options for regulating new psychoactive drugs

    Sunday, 01 May 2011
    Options for regulating new psychoactive drugs

    This paper is intended to provide the basis for a discussion of policy options in dealing with new psychoactive substances that show signs of popularity and of harmfulness within a wider project bein ...

    Labels
    synthetic cannabinoids | legal highs | regulation
    Read more...
  • The future of Dutch cannabis policy

    Monday, 14 March 2011

    The municipality of the Dutch city of Utrecht recently announced two scientific experiments on cannabis policy. One experiment will be to set up a closed club model for adult recreational cannabis us ...

    Labels
    opinion polls | coffee shop | cannabis clubs | netherlands | regulation | cannabis | decriminalization
    Read more...
  • Dutch city wants to grow cannabis in a cooperative

    Friday, 11 March 2011

    The Dutch city of Utrecht wants cannabis smokers to grow their own marijuana in a cooperative, a move which would go against the Netherlands' drive to discourage soft drug use. It also would be illeg ...

    Labels
    cannabis clubs | netherlands | regulation | cannabis
    Read more...
  • Happy toking

    Thursday, 10 February 2011

    This week’s Economist-YouGov poll contains some exciting news for devotees of the weed. A huge majority of Americans, more than two to one once don’t knows have been excluded, support the legalisatio ...

    Labels
    legalization | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
    Read more...
  • Personalities urge new ways to tackle drug abuse

    Tuesday, 25 January 2011

    A group set up by former Latin American leaders and personalities including Virgin chief Richard Branson on Monday recommended that consumers of illicit drugs should not be treated as criminals. The ...

    Labels
    global commission | regulation | decriminalization
    Read more...
  • Cannabis social clubs in Spain

    Monday, 24 January 2011
    Cannabis social clubs in Spain

    Cannabis social clubs (CSC) are noncommercial organisations of users who get together to cultivate and distribute enough cannabis to meet their personal needs without having to turn to the black mark ...

    Labels
    cannabis clubs | spain | regulation | cannabis
    Read more...
  • Non-residents in the Netherlands and access to coffee-shops

    Thursday, 16 December 2010

    Under the 1976 Law on opium (Opiumwet 1976), the possession, dealing, cultivation, transportation, production, import and export of narcotic drugs, including cannabis and its derivatives, are prohibi ...

    Labels
    coffee shop | netherlands | regulation | cannabis
    Read more...
  • Ex-minister Bob Ainsworth: Make drugs legally available

    Thursday, 16 December 2010

    Bob Ainsworth, a Home Office minister under Tony Blair, said successive governments' approaches had failed, leaving criminal gangs in control. The MP wants to see a system of strict legal regulation, ...

    Labels
    legalization | regulation
    Read more...
  • David Nutt: 'The government cannot think logically about drugs'

    Monday, 06 December 2010

    If someone were to invent a perfectly safe ecstasy pill, what would be done about it? It's the sort of scenario clubbers like to speculate about, usually at around 6am, a little the worse for wear af ...

    Labels
    regulation | reclassification
    Read more...
  • Liberal Dutch marijuana policy taking another hit?

    Thursday, 18 November 2010

    The new conservative Dutch government wants to force the country's marijuana cafes to become "members only" clubs, a move that would effectively block foreigners from buying the drug. If the idea eve ...

    Labels
    coffee shop | netherlands | regulation | cannabis
    Read more...
  • A hunger strike divides Switzerland

    Wednesday, 17 November 2010

    Imprisoned cannabis farmer Bernard Rappaz has been on hunger strike for more than 80 days in protest at a prison sentence he considers too high. Doctors have refused orders from the authorities to fo ...

    Labels
    switzerland | regulation | cannabis
    Read more...
  • What should we do about cannabis?

    Tuesday, 09 November 2010
    What should we do about cannabis?

    No serious commentator doubts that cannabis is potentially damaging to the user. Like tobacco, it is typically smoked and thus shares the potential for lung disease. Like alcohol, it affects reaction ...

    Labels
    scientific research | cognitive decline | psychosis | gateway theory | legalization | regulation | cannabis
    Read more...
  • New Report: U.S. Government Data Demonstrates Failure of Cannabis Prohibition

    Thursday, 07 October 2010

    The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP) today released a new research report, Tools for debate: U.S. federal government data on cannabis prohibition, that demonstrates the clear f ...

    Labels
    legalization | regulation | cannabis
    Read more...
  • US Federal Government Data on Cannabis Prohibition

    Thursday, 07 October 2010

    The report reviews 20 years of data from US government funded surveillance systems on government drug control spending, cannabis seizures and cannabis arrests, in order to assess the impact of enforc ...

    Labels
    california | legalization | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
    Read more...
  • The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition

    Wednesday, 29 September 2010
    The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition

    The CATO report estimates that legalizing drugs would save roughly $41.3 billion per year in government expenditure on enforcement of prohibition. Of these savings, $25.7 billion would accrue to stat ...

    Labels
    prohibition | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
    Read more...
  • License cannabis sales, expert says

    Tuesday, 14 September 2010

    Policymakers should consider allowing the licensed sale of cannabis for recreational use, says one of the UK's leading researchers of the drug. Professor Roger Pertwee is to make the call in a speech ...

    Labels
    regulation | cannabis
    Read more...
  • Weary of drug war, Mexico debates legalization

    Sunday, 12 September 2010

    A debate about legalizing marijuana and possibly other drugs — once a taboo suggestion — is percolating in Mexico, a nation exhausted by runaway violence and a deadly drug war. The debate is only lik ...

    Labels
    regulation | US drug policy | decriminalization | mexico
    Read more...
  • California's Prop 19, on legalizing marijuana, could end Mexico's drug war

    Sunday, 05 September 2010

    On Nov. 2, Californians will vote on Proposition 19, deciding whether to legalize the production, sale and consumption of marijuana. If the initiative passes, it won't just be momentous for Californi ...

    Labels
    california | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
    Read more...
  • East African discourses on khat and sex

    Wednesday, 01 September 2010
    East African discourses on khat and sex

    The study aims to review and analyse the varied East African discourses on the effects of khat use on libido, fertility, transmission of HIV, prostitution and rape. Khat is associated, by consumers a ...

    Labels
    kenya | substance-use disorder | khat | regulation
    Read more...
  • Cannabis in Mexico

    Friday, 27 August 2010
    Cannabis in Mexico

    In August 2010, Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared that he would support a national debate on the issue of legalisation, reversing his previous stance on the subject. However, he underscored ...

    Labels
    regulation | cannabis | decriminalization | mexico
    Read more...
  • Kerlikowske draws the wrong conclusions

    Monday, 16 August 2010

    In "Has the time come to legalize drugs?" Andres Oppenheimer, the influential opinion maker about Latin American affairs at the Miami Herald, describes how the debate about cannabis regulation "is ra ...

    Labels
    coffee shop | netherlands | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
    Read more...
  • Thinking the unthinkable

    Thursday, 12 August 2010

    Since marijuana provides the Mexican gangs with up to half their income, taking that business out of their hands would change the balance of power in the drug war. Californians will vote in November ...

    Labels
    regulation | mexico
    Read more...
  • Has the time come to legalize drugs?

    Thursday, 12 August 2010

    Legalization of drugs -- long an issue championed mainly by fringe groups -- is rapidly moving to the mainstream in Latin America. Last week's surprise statement by former Mexican President Vicente F ...

    Labels
    regulation | mexico
    Read more...
  • Ex-Mexico president calls for legalizing drugs

    Monday, 09 August 2010

    Former President Vicente Fox is joining with those urging his successor to legalize drugs in Mexico, saying that could break the economic power of the country's brutal drug cartels. Fox's comments, p ...

    Labels
    regulation | decriminalization | mexico
    Read more...
  • The problem is more than just the substances, it's the prohibition itself

    Monday, 09 August 2010

    Maria Lucia Karam, a retired Brazilian judge, argues that drugs should be legalised - but regulated. Every country that has provided a glimpse of what a regulated future might look like has experienc ...

    Labels
    regulation | US drug policy | decriminalization
    Read more...
  • Marijuana Legalization Gaining Favor in Mexico

    Sunday, 08 August 2010

    "I don't think that marijuana legalization will be a panacea on drug violence in Mexico," said David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego. "But legalization co ...

    Labels
    regulation | mexico
    Read more...
  • Why the US and Latin America could be ready to end a fruitless 40-year struggle

    Sunday, 08 August 2010

    Mexico's president Felipe Caldéron is the latest Latin leader to call for a debate on drugs legalisation. And in the US, liberals and right-wing libertarians are pressing for an end to prohibition. F ...

    Labels
    regulation | mexico
    Read more...
  • De “no hay alternativa” a “enséñenme la salida”

    Friday, 06 August 2010

    Aun cuando tarde, siempre será bienvenida la disposición presidencial para admitir la necesidad de un debate largamente pospuesto en su administración: la de los verdaderos resultados de su “guerra c ...

    Labels
    regulation | mexico
    Read more...
  • Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health

    Friday, 06 August 2010
    Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health

    The current international system of drug control has focused on creating a drug-free world, almost exclusively through use of law enforcement policies and criminal sanctions. Mounting evidence, howev ...

    Labels
    human rights | regulation | UN drug control | proportionality | harm reduction | decriminalization
    Read more...
  • An alternative to the war on drugs

    Saturday, 17 July 2010
    An alternative to the war on drugs

    Stephen Rolles argues that we need to end the criminalisation of drugs and set up regulatory models that will control drug markets and reduce the harms caused by current policy. Non-medical drug mark ...

    Labels
    regulation
    Read more...
  • A good chew or good riddance

    Thursday, 15 July 2010
    A good chew or good riddance

    The article reviews the status of khat, the most recent plant based psychoactive substance to reach a global market, and considers policy making processes in general and the framework of drug control ...

    Labels
    ethiopia | yemen | somalia | kenya | sweden | UK | canada | WHO | khat | netherlands | regulation | UN drug control | US drug policy | reclassification
    Read more...
  • Altered State?

    Wednesday, 07 July 2010
    Altered State?

    To learn more about the possible outcomes of marijuana legalization in California, RAND researchers constructed a model based on a series of estimates of current consumption, current and future price ...

    Labels
    california | legalization | regulation
    Read more...
  • Ending drug prohibition: the ultimate austerity measure

    Tuesday, 18 May 2010

    The ban on recreational drugs promotes crime and is bad for public health. Austerity measures to cut public spending are a hot topic for debate everywhere in Europe. In the Netherlands, where a new p ...

    Labels
    coffee shop | netherlands | legalization | regulation
    Read more...
  • Former ministers: legalise all drugs!

    Tuesday, 18 May 2010

    'Save the country, legalise drugs.' Under this striking banner, two former Dutch government ministers (for foreign affairs and health) are launching their revolutionary plan. They estimate that more ...

    Labels
    coffee shop | netherlands | legalization | regulation
    Read more...
  • The changing use and misuse of khat

    Friday, 07 May 2010
    The changing use and misuse of khat

    Within the last decade the hitherto little known psychoactive substance of khat has emerged as a regional and international issue. In the Horn of Africa khat production has spurred an economic boom, ...

    Labels
    scientific research | cognitive decline | psychosis | mild stimulants | khat | regulation | UN drug control
    Read more...
  • Budgetary benefits of cannabis regulation

    Tuesday, 20 April 2010

    In the United States the discussion on the pros and cons of regulating cannabis is well advanced. The national television news programme CNBC has dedicated a website, Marijuana & Money, to the issue. ...

    Labels
    regulation | cannabis
    Read more...
  • MP: Approval for city ‘coffee shop’ plan unlikely

    Friday, 15 January 2010

    The Copenhagen City Council’s plan to set up shops selling cannabis as a way to remove the market from the control of gangs is not likely to be embraced enthusiastically in parliament, according to a ...

    Labels
    denmark | coffee shop | recriminalisation | regulation | cannabis
    Read more...
  • Blueprint for Regulation

    Sunday, 01 November 2009
    Blueprint for Regulation

    There is a growing recognition around the world that the prohibition of drugs is a counterproductive failure. However, a major barrier to drug law reform has been a widespread fear of the unknown—jus ...

    Labels
    regulation
    Read more...
  • Illicit drugs policy through the lens of regulation

    Sunday, 01 November 2009
    Illicit drugs policy through the lens of regulation

    The application of regulatory theory to the problem of illicit drugs has generally been thought about only in terms of ‘command and control’. The international treaties governing global illicit drug ...

    Labels
    regulation
    Read more...
  • Regulating khat

    Sunday, 01 November 2009
    Regulating khat

    The regulation of khat, one of the most recent psychoactive drugs to become a globally traded commodity, remains hotly contested within different producer and consumer countries. As regimes vary, it ...

    Labels
    yemen | somalia | kenya | kava | UK | WHO | traditional growers | mild stimulants | khat | regulation | UN drug control
    Read more...
  • Marijuana's journey to legal health treatment

    Sunday, 16 August 2009

    In 2001, Canada became the first country to adopt a formal system to regulate the medicinal use of marijuana — the Marijuana Medical Access Regulations. The policy allowed people suffering from termi ...

    Labels
    canada | medical cannabis | regulation
    Read more...
  • Legal Responses to New Psychoactive Substances in Europe

    Thursday, 19 February 2009
    Legal Responses to New Psychoactive Substances in Europe

    This paper starts from the premise that, when a new psychoactive substance appears on the licit/illicit market in a country in Europe, legislators need to choose whether to bring it under control of ...

    Labels
    legal highs | regulation
    Read more...
  • Dutch mayors call for growing marijuana

    Sunday, 23 November 2008

    The Dutch government should licence the growing and supply of marijuana to the country’s 700 or so coffee shops that sell cannabis, according to a group of around 30 Dutch mayors. This is the conclus ...

    Labels
    coffee shop | netherlands | regulation | cannabis
    Read more...
  • Local councils support tolerant cannabis policy

    Tuesday, 18 November 2008

    Most of the Dutch local councils that have so-called coffee shops which sell marijuana say they have no problem with the current policy of tolerating these outlets, according to a survey by NRC Hande ...

    Labels
    coffee shop | netherlands | regulation | cannabis
    Read more...
  • Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate

    Monday, 01 September 2008
    Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate

    Despite cannabis being the most widely used illegal drug, and therefore the mainstay of the ‘war on drugs’, it has only ever held a relatively marginal position in international drug policy discussio ...

    Labels
    scientific research | cognitive decline | psychosis | conventions | coffee shop | regulation | cannabis | decriminalization
    Read more...
  • Cannabis dreams drift away

    Monday, 07 April 2008

    Following decades of rising cannabis use and talk of liberalisation, Switzerland had appeared poised to become the marijuana capital of Europe. The country still boasts some of the highest rates of c ...

    Labels
    switzerland | regulation | cannabis | decriminalization
    Read more...

Page 29 of 30

  • Start
  • Prev
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • Next
  • End

Drugs in the News

  • Cannabis cafés and self-growing: Czechia presents draft of new marijuana law
    11.01.2024
  • Minister signs bill banning recreational use of weed
    08.01.2024
  • As the mayor of Amsterdam, I can see the Netherlands risks becoming a narco-state
    05.01.2024
  • Barcelona city council threatens to shut down cannabis social clubs
    04.01.2024
  • Swiss capital Bern considers legal cocaine project
    20.12.2023
  • High time: after five years, Dutch start legal cannabis trial
    15.12.2023
More news

Weblog

    Willful blindness: INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation
    14.03.2023
More weblog

Hilites

Balancing Treaty Stability and Change

balancing hilite

Inter se modification of the UN drug control conventions to facilitate cannabis regulation


Connecting the dots...

connecting dots hilite

Human rights, illicit cultivation and alternative development


Morocco and Cannabis

morocco cannabis hilite

Reduction, containment or acceptance


The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition

rise decline hilite

The History of Cannabis in the UN Drug Control System and Options For Reform


Tags

10-year Review  20 1998 UNGASS  26 2005 CND debate  8 2016 UNGASS  126 2019 HLM  5 activism  38 afghanistan  25 show all

Tags

10-year Review  20 1998 UNGASS  26 2005 CND debate  8 2016 UNGASS  126 2019 HLM  5 activism  38 afghanistan  25 hide
africa  14 albania  14 alternative development  120 alternatives to policing  2 amnesty  89 amphetamine  1 amsterdam  30 appellation of origin  3 argentina  32 asean  9 ATS  15 australia  109 austria  5 ayahuasca  6 bahamas  4 ballot 2012  155 banking  52 barbados  11 belgium  46 belize  10 bermuda  15 bhang  15 bolivia  118 brazil  95 brownfield doctrine  24 burma  45 california  216 cambodia  12 canada  543 cannabinoids  107 cannabis  3255 cannabis clubs  230 cannabis industry  417 caribbean  148 caricom  33 cbd oil  1 central america  5 chile  21 china  46 civil society  37 CND  131 coca  220 cocaine  95 coffee shop  230 cognitive decline  30 colombia  160 colorado  163 compulsary detention  19 conflict  4 conventions  277 corporate capture  59 corruption  5 costa rica  10 crack  55 craft cannabis  31 crime  92 czech republic  54 dark net  4 death penalty  3 decertification  1 decriminalization  935 deforestation  11 denmark  132 drug checking  41 drug consumption rooms  193 drug courts  22 drug markets  147 drug policy index  2 drug testing  7 drug trade  60 e-cigarettes  1 e-joint  2 ecstasy  70 ecuador  22 egypt  16 el salvador  2 environment  38 eradication  129 essential medicines  25 estonia  2 eswatini  7 ethiopia  3 european drug policy  119 expert advisory group  9 extrajudicial killings  95 fair trade  16 fentanyl  84 france  119 fumigation  27 gateway theory  29 georgia  3 germany  217 ghana  18 global commission  46 greece  19 guatemala  32 guatemala initiative  47 harm reduction  348 hemp  44 heroin  139 heroin assisted treatment  80 HIV/AIDS  61 home cultivation  124 honduras  4 human rights  259 ICC  1 illinois  10 incarceration  53 INCB  143 india  102 indigenous rights  1 indonesia  35 informal drug policy dialogues  22 inter se modification  17 iran  14 ireland  16 israel  63 italy  42 jamaica  176 japan  3 kava  4 kazakhstan  5 kenya  11 ketamine  27 khat  37 kratom  33 kyrgyzstan  1 laos  2 latin american debate  115 law enforcement  432 lebanon  43 legal highs  64 legalization  1709 lesotho  10 local customization  11 luxembourg  60 malawi  4 malaysia  7 malta  58 medical cannabis  665 mental health  45 methamphetamine  49 mexico  211 Mid-Term Review  1 mild stimulants  46 money laundering  55 morocco  128 naloxone  16 nepal  7 netherlands  341 new york  34 new zealand  67 NIDA  5 nigeria  1 nitrous oxide  9 norway  18 NPS  10 opinion polls  132 opioids  153 opium  94 oregon  29 overdose kits  4 pakistan  9 panama  5 paraguay  4 pardon  2 patents  18 peace  24 peru  45 peyote  3 philippines  89 pilot project  137 pleasure  5 poland  2 police pacification  18 portugal  68 potency  2 precursors  7 prevention  3 prison situation  101 prohibition  158 proportionality  110 psychedelics  13 psychosis  57 puerto rico  3 racism  29 reclassification  119 recriminalisation  42 regulation  1454 russia  36 sacramental use  11 safe supply  36 safer crack  29 scheduling  29 scientific research  145 sdg  2 security  14 senegal  1 sentencing  67 singapore  7 social justice  83 somalia  7 south africa  83 spain  81 st lucia  9 st vincent and grenadines  31 substance-use disorder  20 substitution treatment  31 sweden  31 switzerland  162 synthetic cannabinoids  31 taxation  58 teen use  43 thailand  78 thresholds  64 tobacco industry  17 traditional growers  162 tramadol  17 treatment  29 trinidad & tobago  15 tunisia  14 UK  282 UN Common Position  1 UN drug control  444 UNGASS  58 UNODC  111 uruguay  146 US drug policy  1192 vaping  2 venezuela  5 vietnam  5 violence  134 WHO  66 world drug report  11 yemen  6

This website

UN Drug Control

In 2011 the 1961 UN Single Convention on drugs will be in place for 50 years. In 2012 the international drug control system will exist 100 years since the International Opium Convention was signed in 1912 in The Hague. Does it still serve its purpose or is a reform of the UN Drug Conventions needed? This site provides critical background.

Drug Law Reform on the map

dlronthemap_und

Copyright © 2024 Drug Law Reform in Latin America

Website by WebWolf