Items tagged with cannabis
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| Stepping away from the darkness [19.08.2009] | The Drug War has failed. After more than 20 years of tirelessly pushing for the same policy, the efforts have not been able to bring the expanding il ... |
| Drug policy reform in practice [14.08.2009] | The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with the ... |
| City trying to ‘hash out’ pot issue [07.07.2009] | A new Social Affairs Committee report on cannabis has recommended that the City Council seriously consider decriminalisation of the substance’s as be ... |
| Committee wants coffee shops to cater to locals only [01.07.2009] | Limit the sale of cannabis to local users, reconsider the distinction between hard and soft drugs, raise the legal age for drinking alcohol from 16 t ... |
| Assessing the impact of cannabis use on trends in diagnosed schizophrenia in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005 [27.06.2009] | A recent systematic review concluded that cannabis use increases risk of psychotic outcomes independently of confounding and transient intoxication e ... |
| Round Table on Alternative Development [15.03.2009] | The last of the four ‘round tables’ of the high-level segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs was devoted to the broad issue of Countering illici ... |
| Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15.03.2009] | This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 2 ... |
| Cannabis Use in Canada [01.03.2009] | Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug in Canada, used by 1 in 7 adults and 1 in 4 students. Other forms of drug use (e.g., alcohol or injec ... |
| The consequences and costs of marijuana prohibition [01.03.2009] | This report draws on a wide range of data sources to assess the consequences and costs of enforcing criminal laws that prohibit the use of marijuana. ... |
| Toward a Paradigm Shift [12.02.2009] | Prohibitionist policies based on the eradication of production and on the disruption of drug flows as well as on the criminalization of consumption h ... |
| Toward a Paradigm Shift [11.02.2009] | The Commission Gathered at its Second Meeting, in Bogota The Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy presented its conclusions at a press co ... |
| Banks told to accept cannabis cafe customers [06.02.2009] | Banks must accept cafes which sell cannabis and marijuana as clients, says finance minister Wouter Bos. The minister fears that if these businesses, ... |
| Police crackdown on Christiania in Copenhagen [14.01.2009] | A recent change in Danish cannabis control policy has had significant implications for the structure of the retail-level cannabis market in Copenhage ... |
| Smoking without Borders [13.01.2009] | Cannabis license The Hungarian Civil Liberty Union (HCLU) produced a video on the debate on cannabis policy and the tolerated sale of small quantitie ... |
| Voters agree heroin scheme, but throw out dope [30.11.2008] | The Swiss look set to approve the government's drugs policy, including the prescription of heroin to addicts, but will reject a plan to decriminalise ... |
| Dutch mayors call for growing marijuana [23.11.2008] | 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 gr ... |
| Local councils support tolerant cannabis policy [18.11.2008] | 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 ... |
| An Overview of Cannabis Policy [31.10.2008] | On October 2, 2008, the Beckley Foundation launched in the House of Lords its Global Cannabis Commission Report, an authoritative guide to the effect ... |
| Fate of drug laws hazy but voters will decide [23.10.2008] | A first opinion poll found that the prescription of heroin for addicts stands a good chance of passing on November 30. However, a proposal to decrimi ... |
| Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate [01.09.2008] | 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 margin ... |
| Characterization of the crack cocaine culture in the city of São Paulo: a controlled pattern of use [01.07.2008] | In the city of São Paulo, the culture of crack use has undergone considerable changes over these 11 years since it was first described. The sociodemo ... |
| Cannabis debate in Australia [04.06.2008] | In Australia a vicious debate on cannabis policy started when Alex Wodak, the head of the Sydney drug and alcohol clinic at St Vincent's Hospital, su ... |
| Costa in Amsterdam [02.06.2008] | The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Costa, recently visited Amsterdam on 24 April. Accompanied by some officials of the Net ... |
| The Cannabis Debate: Polak vs Costa [27.05.2008] | Antonio Costa, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and Frederick Polak, a Dutch psychiatrist have been engaged in an ... |
| Cannabis dreams drift away [07.04.2008] | Following decades of rising cannabis use and talk of liberalisation, Switzerland had appeared poised to become the marijuana capital of Europe. The c ... |
| Cannabis: Classification and Public Health [01.04.2008] | The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs reviewed the classification of cannabis in the light of real public concern about the potential mental he ... |
| Review of the world cannabis situation [01.04.2008] | Cannabis is the world’s most widely cultivated and consumed illicit drug, but there remain major gaps in our understanding of global cannabis markets ... |
| Cannabis resolutions at the 2008 CND [29.03.2008] | At the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in March 2008 in Vienna three resolutions on cannabis were tabled. They were all clearly against 'lenient p ... |
| Decriminalization of cannabis [28.03.2008] | An interesting essay discussing the case for decriminalization of cannabis use appeared in the March 2008 issue of Current Opinion in Psychiatry. The ... |
| Not so silent partners [17.03.2008] | In his speech to the NGO forum at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on Wednesday 12 March, Mr. Antonio Maria Costa, the Executive Director of th ... |
| The INCB and cannabis [02.03.2008] | Where legal ambiguities and disagreement persist around cannabis policies, the INCB continues to make narrow legal interpretations of what is allowed ... |
| Decriminalization of cannabis [01.03.2008] | This paper discusses the case for decriminalization of cannabis use, based on a careful weighting of the currently available evidence regarding advan ... |
| The International Narcotics Control Board [29.02.2008] | This briefing paper brings together material and analysis from a number of recent reports that raise questions about the role and functioning of the ... |
| SCOPE: Proposal by the UNDCP, 1 December 1997 [24.02.2008] | FOR PARTICIPANTS ONLY E/CN.7/1997/PC/CRP.11 1 December 1997 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH FOR COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS ACTING AS PREPARATORY BODY FOR THE SPE ... |
| Invitational Conference Cannabis Policy [12.12.2007] | TNI co-signed a letter that was sent to the Dutch Prime Minister and relevant parliamentary commissions, stressing the need for an active Dutch invol ... |
| Characteristics of the cannabis market in Belgium [01.01.2007] | The number of cannabis plantations uncovered by the Belgian judiciary has been rising steadily, and the relocation of cannabis production to the Low ... |
| Danish cannabis policy in practice [01.01.2007] | Danish drug policy has been reversed from liberal to more repressive, especially in 2003, when the Danish liberal-conservative government that had be ... |
| International Drug Control: 100 Years of Success? [26.06.2006] | In its 2006 World Drug Report, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) struggles to construct success stories to convince the world that the global ... |
| A cannabis pandemic? [26.06.2006] | In its 2006 World Drug Report, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) struggles to construct success stories to convince the world that the global d ... |
| Study finds no cancer-marijuana connection [25.05.2006] | The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer. The new fi ... |
| "Achterdeur open U" [09.02.2006] | Het Nederlandse cannabisbeleid verkeert al decennia in een internationaalrechtelijke schemerzone, stelt Martin Jelsma van het Transnational Institute ... |
| A tale of two cannabinoids [01.01.2006] | This study examines the current knowledge of physiological and clinical effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) and presents a ra ... |
| What Does It Mean to Decriminalize Marijuana? [01.09.2004] | This paper provides a framework for understanding what decriminalization means within the broader context of depenalization. To illustrate these conc ... |
| Pot, politics and the press—reflections on cannabis law reform in Western Australia [31.05.2004] | Windows of opportunity for changing drug laws open infrequently and they often close without legislative change being affected. In this paper the aut ... |
| The Limited Relevance of Drug Policy [01.05.2004] | Decriminalizing cannabis doesn't lead to more widespread use, according to a study comparing cannabis users in two similar cities with opposing canna ... |
| Global Trends. Lessons from Vienna [20.06.2003] | Martin Jelsma analysed the 2003 UNGASS mid-term review and drew some important conclusions for the 10-year review in 2008: "Alliances have to be cons ... |
| Cannabis Policy, Implementation and Outcomes [01.06.2003] | This report examines what is known about the effects of policies regarding the possession and use of cannabis. Such policies continue to be subject t ... |
| Cannabis control [01.03.2003] | Cannabis like other illicit drugs is so-called ‘controlled drug’. A closer look makes clear that these drugs are in fact far from being ‘controlled’. ... |
| European Cannabis Policies Under Attack [01.04.2002] | A strong attack against the European practice of 'leniency' regarding cannabis use and possession took place at the United Nations Commission on Narc ... |
| Crack Heads and Roots Daughters [01.01.2002] | An ethnographic study of women and drug use in inner city neighborhoods in Kingston, Jamaica, revealed that cannabis is commonly used in conjunction ... |
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