Items tagged with norway
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| How the punishment for drugs possession in Norway is changing [23.05.2022] | The Attorney General announced updated guidelines for how the police should work with drug possession charges. The Attorney General has said that dru ... |
| Norway opposition torpedoes plan to decriminalise drug use [16.04.2021] | Norway's main opposition Labour Party rejected a government plan to decriminalise the personal use of drugs in small quantities, saying the measure c ... |
| Norway seeks to decriminalise recreational drug use [19.02.2021] | Norway's government proposed a bill aimed at decriminalising the possession and use of small amounts of narcotics, saying users should be offered tre ... |
| Danish parties want to decriminalise hard drugs [14.01.2020] | A new report in Denmark revealed that more young Danes are consuming cocaine. Now several Danish parties want to change the law on the drugs to allow ... |
| Drug laws on possession: several countries are revisiting them and these are their options [02.08.2019] | Many countries are changing the way they approach people who use drugs. The Irish government has just announced possible alternatives to criminalisat ... |
| Why some U.S. allies didn’t sign up for Trump’s pledge to fight drugs [24.09.2018] | President Trump began his week at the UN General Assembly with an event seeking to prompt action against the global drug trade. “The call is simple,” ... |
| Norway to give free heroin to 400 addicts: report [09.08.2018] | Health Minister Bent Høie has asked the Norwegian Directorate of Health to draw up a list of which addicts were most suitable to receive so-called "h ... |
| Sweden's zero-tolerance drug policy should be reviewed: narcotics officer [14.06.2018] | Sweden's current policy is based on the goal of a "drug-free society" and makes no distinction between "hard" and "soft" drugs. Those found guilty of ... |
| Is Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drugs a failing model? [17.05.2018] | Sweden is accustomed to being praised for its forward-thinking approach, but there's one area where many feel it lies behind the curve. The country's ... |
| Norway's drug policies 'could set example for rest of the world' [22.03.2018] | Norway’s drug laws could be an example for the rest of the world, leading healthcare and police figures from around the world have said. Drug policy ... |
| Norway becomes first Scandinavian country to decriminalise drugs in historic vote [15.12.2017] | Norway is to become the first Scandinavian country to decriminalise drugs as it focuses on treatment rather than punishment. The majority of the Norw ... |
| Norway to sentence some drug addicts to treatment rather than prison [14.02.2016] | Norway's courts will now be able to sentence drug-addicted convicts to treatment programmes instead of sending them to jail. Following trials in Berg ... |
| Record number of raids on Swedish drug farms [21.07.2015] | Swedes are growing more and more cannabis. Never before have so many illegal drug farms been reported to the police, according to Swedish media. In 2 ... |
| EU report: Oslo lacks drug strategy [03.07.2015] | A new EU report has found that Oslo, a city that for many years has topped the heroin overdose ranking, still lacks a comprehensive strategy to comba ... |
| European policy on khat [30.04.2014] | The UK and the Netherlands commissioned distinguished scholars and experts to study the social and clinical harms of khat. These experts argued that ... |
| 'Mountain of synthetic cannabis' hits Norway [12.11.2013] | Norwegian customs officials are calling for increased funding after a surge in the quantity of synthetic cannabis coming into the country - most of i ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
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