Items tagged with regulation
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A French economist argues for the legalization of cannabis [02.08.2011] | University of Paris economist Pierre Kopp wants to legalize marijuana for entirely economic reasons. Kopp tells Le Monde : "For economists, the publi ... |
Marijuana bill officially introduced to Congress by Ron Paul, Barney Frank [23.06.2011] | 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 ... |
Global Commission on Drug Policy Report [02.06.2011] | The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of ... |
Taking Drugs Seriously [17.05.2011] | Since first coming to public prominence at the end of 2009, legal highs have posed a major challenge to existing legal and legislative structures des ... |
Options for regulating new psychoactive drugs [01.05.2011] | This paper is intended to provide the basis for a discussion of policy options in dealing with new psychoactive substances that show signs of popular ... |
The future of Dutch cannabis policy [14.03.2011] | The municipality of the Dutch city of Utrecht recently announced two scientific experiments on cannabis policy. One experiment will be to set up a cl ... |
Dutch city wants to grow cannabis in a cooperative [11.03.2011] | 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 t ... |
Happy toking [10.02.2011] | 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 ... |
Personalities urge new ways to tackle drug abuse [25.01.2011] | A group set up by former Latin American leaders and personalities including Virgin chief Richard Branson on Monday recommended that consumers of illi ... |
Cannabis social clubs in Spain [24.01.2011] | Cannabis social clubs (CSC) are noncommercial organisations of users who get together to cultivate and distribute enough cannabis to meet their perso ... |
Non-residents in the Netherlands and access to coffee-shops [16.12.2010] | Under the 1976 Law on opium (Opiumwet 1976), the possession, dealing, cultivation, transportation, production, import and export of narcotic drugs, i ... |
Ex-minister Bob Ainsworth: Make drugs legally available [16.12.2010] | Bob Ainsworth, a Home Office minister under Tony Blair, said successive governments' approaches had failed, leaving criminal gangs in control. The MP ... |
David Nutt: 'The government cannot think logically about drugs' [06.12.2010] | 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, usu ... |
Liberal Dutch marijuana policy taking another hit? [18.11.2010] | The new conservative Dutch government wants to force the country's marijuana cafes to become "members only" clubs, a move that would effectively bloc ... |
A hunger strike divides Switzerland [17.11.2010] | 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. Doct ... |
What should we do about cannabis? [09.11.2010] | No serious commentator doubts that cannabis is potentially damaging to the user. Like tobacco, it is typically smoked and thus shares the potential f ... |
New Report: U.S. Government Data Demonstrates Failure of Cannabis Prohibition [07.10.2010] | The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP) today released a new research report, Tools for debate: U.S. federal government data on c ... |
US Federal Government Data on Cannabis Prohibition [07.10.2010] | The report reviews 20 years of data from US government funded surveillance systems on government drug control spending, cannabis seizures and cannabi ... |
The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition [29.09.2010] | The CATO report estimates that legalizing drugs would save roughly $41.3 billion per year in government expenditure on enforcement of prohibition. Of ... |
License cannabis sales, expert says [14.09.2010] | Policymakers should consider allowing the licensed sale of cannabis for recreational use, says one of the UK's leading researchers of the drug. Profe ... |
Weary of drug war, Mexico debates legalization [12.09.2010] | A debate about legalizing marijuana and possibly other drugs — once a taboo suggestion — is percolating in Mexico, a nation exhausted by runaway viol ... |
California's Prop 19, on legalizing marijuana, could end Mexico's drug war [05.09.2010] | On Nov. 2, Californians will vote on Proposition 19, deciding whether to legalize the production, sale and consumption of marijuana. If the initiativ ... |
East African discourses on khat and sex [01.09.2010] | The study aims to review and analyse the varied East African discourses on the effects of khat use on libido, fertility, transmission of HIV, prostit ... |
Cannabis in Mexico [27.08.2010] | In August 2010, Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared that he would support a national debate on the issue of legalisation, reversing his previo ... |
Kerlikowske draws the wrong conclusions [16.08.2010] | In "Has the time come to legalize drugs?" Andres Oppenheimer, the influential opinion maker about Latin American affairs at the Miami Herald, describ ... |
Thinking the unthinkable [12.08.2010] | 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 ... |
Has the time come to legalize drugs? [12.08.2010] | Legalization of drugs -- long an issue championed mainly by fringe groups -- is rapidly moving to the mainstream in Latin America. Last week's surpri ... |
Ex-Mexico president calls for legalizing drugs [09.08.2010] | Former President Vicente Fox is joining with those urging his successor to legalize drugs in Mexico, saying that could break the economic power of th ... |
The problem is more than just the substances, it's the prohibition itself [09.08.2010] | Maria Lucia Karam, a retired Brazilian judge, argues that drugs should be legalised - but regulated. Every country that has provided a glimpse of wha ... |
Marijuana Legalization Gaining Favor in Mexico [08.08.2010] | "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 ... |
Why the US and Latin America could be ready to end a fruitless 40-year struggle [08.08.2010] | 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 libe ... |
De “no hay alternativa” a “enséñenme la salida” [06.08.2010] | Aun cuando tarde, siempre será bienvenida la disposición presidencial para admitir la necesidad de un debate largamente pospuesto en su administració ... |
Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health [06.08.2010] | The current international system of drug control has focused on creating a drug-free world, almost exclusively through use of law enforcement policie ... |
An alternative to the war on drugs [17.07.2010] | 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 har ... |
A good chew or good riddance [15.07.2010] | The article reviews the status of khat, the most recent plant based psychoactive substance to reach a global market, and considers policy making proc ... |
Altered State? [07.07.2010] | To learn more about the possible outcomes of marijuana legalization in California, RAND researchers constructed a model based on a series of estimate ... |
Ending drug prohibition: the ultimate austerity measure [18.05.2010] | 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 every ... |
Former ministers: legalise all drugs! [18.05.2010] | 'Save the country, legalise drugs.' Under this striking banner, two former Dutch government ministers (for foreign affairs and health) are launching ... |
The changing use and misuse of khat [07.05.2010] | Within the last decade the hitherto little known psychoactive substance of khat has emerged as a regional and international issue. In the Horn of Afr ... |
Budgetary benefits of cannabis regulation [20.04.2010] | In the United States the discussion on the pros and cons of regulating cannabis is well advanced. The national television news programme CNBC has ded ... |
MP: Approval for city ‘coffee shop’ plan unlikely [15.01.2010] | 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 embra ... |
Blueprint for Regulation [01.11.2009] | There is a growing recognition around the world that the prohibition of drugs is a counterproductive failure. However, a major barrier to drug law re ... |
Illicit drugs policy through the lens of regulation [01.11.2009] | The application of regulatory theory to the problem of illicit drugs has generally been thought about only in terms of ‘command and control’. The int ... |
Regulating khat [01.11.2009] | The regulation of khat, one of the most recent psychoactive drugs to become a globally traded commodity, remains hotly contested within different pro ... |
Marijuana's journey to legal health treatment [16.08.2009] | In 2001, Canada became the first country to adopt a formal system to regulate the medicinal use of marijuana — the Marijuana Medical Access Regulatio ... |
Legal Responses to New Psychoactive Substances in Europe [19.02.2009] | This paper starts from the premise that, when a new psychoactive substance appears on the licit/illicit market in a country in Europe, legislators ne ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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