Items tagged with sentencing
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| America has lost the War on Drugs. Here’s what needs to happen next [22.02.2023] | For a forgotten moment, at the very start of the United States’ half-century long war on drugs, public health was the weapon of choice. Before long, ... |
| Tunisia's heavy jail terms for cannabis use spark reform calls [04.02.2021] | Thirty years' jail for smoking a joint after a football game? Tunisia has seen calls for reforms to dictatorship-era drug laws after a court handed d ... |
| Crime commissioner says its "ludicrous" to chase drug addicts who need help [06.11.2020] | The man running the UK’s most progressive drug diversion scheme believes it’s “totally ludicrous” for officers to seek to arrest drug users at a mobi ... |
| In 2017-18, 97% drugs cases in Mumbai courts over possession: study [09.09.2020] | Over 97 per cent of drug-related cases decided by Mumbai courts in 2017 and 2018 involved possession for personal consumption, according to a study b ... |
| The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (CEDD) [31.12.2019] | The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) brings together researchers from seven Latin American cou ... |
| INCB stronger than ever before on decriminalisation, capital punishment & extrajudicial killings [28.06.2019] | The INCB dedicated one of its latest series of Alerts, from June 2019, to the issue of ‘State responses to drug-related criminality’, covering decrim ... |
| Proposals to liberalise cannabis laws expected before Cabinet [21.05.2019] | The plans envisage a move to providing drug counselling, addiction treatment and other health interventions for many users found in possession of sma ... |
| Drug policy in India: Key developments since the UNGASS 2016 [20.02.2019] | This paper outlines the key drug policy developments in India since the UNGASS Outcome Document was adopted in 2016, which highlights health and huma ... |
| Why so many Americans now support legalizing marijuana, in 4 charts [05.02.2019] | American views on marijuana have shifted incredibly rapidly. Thirty years ago, marijuana legalization seemed like a lost cause. In 1988, only 24 perc ... |
| Drug addiction: A different approach [12.10.2018] | The debate on the pitfalls of incarcerating drug addicts is an old one, and a study "From Addict to Convict: The Working of the NDPS Act (1985) in Pu ... |
| Death penalty for drug crimes: How the law changed over time [03.07.2018] | A 2012 report by Harm Reduction International, formerly known as International Harm Reduction Association, a NGO working globally on the subject of d ... |
| A huge step backward on opioids [24.01.2018] | The latest statistics on the overdose crisis -- roughly 64,000 deaths in the United States in 2016 -- also reveal that fentanyl and other synthetic o ... |
| Government accused of 'squandering' £1.6bn a year on anti-drug policy [07.08.2017] | Ministers have been accused of "squandering" £1.6bn a year after an official analysis of the Government’s drug strategy concluded that illegal drugs ... |
| The EU adopts its most progressive drug action plan ever [25.07.2017] | Although it was without much fanfare that the European Commission, in July 2017, published the new Action Plan on Drugs (2017-2020), the drug policy ... |
| Oregon bill decriminalizes possession of heroin, cocaine and other drugs [11.07.2017] | The Oregon legislature passed a bill that reclassifies possession of several drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor, reducing the punishments and expan ... |
| What’s the deal with cannabis in Hong Kong? [01.07.2017] | The use or sale of cannabis is banned in Hong Kong under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, which came into effect in 1969. Any person who cultivates any ... |
| It took Jeff Sessions just one month to turn Obama-era drug policy on its head [02.06.2017] | In the month of May alone, the Trump administration, particularly Attorney General Jeff Sessions's Justice Department, steadily ratcheted up its toug ... |
| Tunisia parliament votes to ease harsh drug law [25.04.2017] | Tunisia's parliament voted to ease the country's harsh law on drugs, in a move that could see offenders like youths caught smoking marijuana escape j ... |
| Drug sentences rise, while time served for other crimes falls [26.08.2015] | A Pew study shows that sentences for Americans convicted of federal drug crimes rose 36% — an average of 20 months — in 30 years, while sentences for ... |
| Obama calls for shorter sentences for nonviolent convicts [13.07.2015] | Calling it an issue America can’t afford to ignore, President Barack Obama laid out an expansive vision for fixing the criminal justice system. “In f ... |
| On the death penalty for drugs [02.03.2015] | The Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), released today, calls upon States that ‘continue to impose the death penalty f ... |
| The United States rethinks draconian drug sentencing policies [27.01.2015] | Across the Americas, an unprecedented debate on drug policy reform is underway. While a regional consensus on what form those reforms should take rem ... |
| Is Obama finally ready to dial back the war on drugs? [31.12.2014] | As Obama embarks on the third year of his second term, here are some of the ways in which Obama has begun to deliver on his promises of a more ration ... |
| Pot legalization: Gateway to what? [12.11.2014] | The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) plans to stay on the sidelines of future pot legalization campaigns – already supported by groups plotting ... |
| Latin America’s Anti-drug Policies Feed on the Poor [04.09.2014] | Poor young men, slumdwellers and single mothers are hurt the most by anti-drug policies in Latin America, according to representatives of governments ... |
| Prisoners sentenced with unconstitutional norms have the right to be resentenced [04.06.2014] | In February, the Italian Constitutional Court ruled that most of the 2006 drug law norms were unconstitutional. Following this pronouncement, at the ... |
| 'Thousands of inmates' can soon be released under drug law [28.05.2014] | A new decree that overhauls Italy's drugs laws paves the way for releasing "thousands of convicted smalltime drug dealers from prison". The move foll ... |
| Italy's strict drug law goes up in smoke [16.02.2014] | On February 12, the Constitutional Court ruled that the Fini-Giovanardi law setting out penalties related to the sale and possession of illegal drugs ... |
| Italy relaxes cannabis penalties [12.02.2014] | Italy's Constitutional Court struck down an anti-drug law from 2006 that imposed tough sentencing for the sale and possession of cannabis, putting it ... |
| The most embarrassing graph in American drug policy [28.05.2013] | Law enforcement strategies have utterly failed to even maintain street prices of the key illicit substances. This figure shows that street drug price ... |
| The Next Step in Drug Treatment [25.04.2013] | The mandatory-sentencing craze that drove up the prison population tenfold, pushing state corrections costs to bankrupting levels, was rooted in New ... |
| Addicted to punishment [08.04.2013] | Over the past several decades, Latin America has seen penalties for drug crimes—even low-level selling—skyrocket. And in many Latin American countrie ... |
| Duped by dope [21.03.2013] | Germany's law-enforcement and legal apparatus devotes enormous resources to fighting illegal narcotics. But users are always a step ahead, and lawmak ... |
| French court rejects sick man's cannabis plea [12.03.2013] | A French man suffering from a muscular disease since childhood had his request to be given the right to use cannabis for medicinal reasons rejected b ... |
| Warren: Drug possession warrants jail time but laundering cartel money doesn’t? [06.03.2013] | Appearing at a Senate Banking Committee hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) grilled officials from the Treasury Department over why criminal charge ... |
| The unintended negative consequences of the 'war on drugs' [28.02.2013] | Criminalisation of drug users, excessive levels of imprisonment, and punitive sentencing practices, including mandatory sentencing, the death penalty ... |
| Addicted to punishment [31.12.2012] | In Latin America, trafficking cocaine so it can be sold to someone who wants to use it is more serious than raping a woman or deliberately killing yo ... |
| Nick Clegg and David Cameron clash over drug law reforms [14.12.2012] | Divisions between David Cameron and Nick Clegg over Britain's "war on drugs" emerged on Friday after the Liberal Democrat leader said that current po ... |
| Drug sentences now make more sense [19.11.2012] | The underlying aim of The Sentencing Council's new guideline for drug offences in England and Wales is to ensure sentences are consistent and the pun ... |
| Will Obama's second term see an end to the failed 'war on drugs'? [16.11.2012] | One of the more surprising results of last week's election was the decision by voters in Colorado and Washington state to legalize marijuana for adul ... |
| Disproportionate penalties for drug offenses in Mexico [11.11.2012] | The story of the Mexican drug war has generally focused on the violence perpetrated by drug cartels and the apparent inability to bring so many crimi ... |
| Victims of the Latin American war on drugs make the case for reform [09.11.2012] | Latin American drug policies have made no dent in the drug trade; instead they have taken a tremendous toll on human lives. In 2009, the Washington O ... |
| Bogotá’s medical care centres for drug addicts (CAMAD) [31.10.2012] | In September 2012, the mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, launched the first centre for drug addicts in the Bronx, a marginalised city-centre neighbourh ... |
| Amidst deep concern for Thailand's drug policies, some space for open debate [27.09.2012] | On 17th September, 2012, IDPC together with the Transnational Institute (TNI) held a high-level seminar in Bangkok co-hosted with the Thai Ministry o ... |
| Drug use is an issue for society, not the criminal justice system [10.09.2012] | There is no reliable evidence that tougher criminal sanctions deter drug use or offending. On the contrary, criminalisation worsens the health and we ... |
| Drugs and Prisons in Uruguay [17.07.2012] | In Uruguay, the consumption of drugs, including marijuana, is not punishable with prison time. Even so, the cultivation of marijuana for personal con ... |
| Brazil Launches Campaign to Decriminalise Drug Use [12.07.2012] | A host of academic, legal, health, political and social figures are joining together to back a campaign to decriminalise drug use in Brazil, as tens ... |
| Life Without Parole for Pot? [26.06.2012] | The United States government spends more than $7 billion annually to enforce marijuana prohibition in shockingly cruel ways, but the efforts have not ... |
| Drugs, crime and punishment [19.06.2012] | Proportionality is one of the key principles of the rule of law aiming to protect people from cruel or inhumane treatment. The principle has been est ... |
| Majority relaxed about cannabis use [21.05.2012] | More than half of Australians support reduced legal penalties for use of drugs such as cannabis and ecstasy, an analysis of a federal government surv ... |
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