Items tagged with law enforcement
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| Advocacy group calls for reform of Burma’s drug laws and policies [17.02.2017] | The Drug Policy Advocacy Group (DPAG) has called for a reform of Burma’s drug laws, demanding new policies focusing on the rehabilitation of drug use ... |
| A rare survivor of a Philippine drug raid takes the police to court [10.02.2017] | As the only known survivor of a so-called buy-bust operation, Mr. Morillo has provided a chilling first-person account that challenges the government ... |
| In Duterte’s footsteps, Hun Sen launches a drug war [09.02.2017] | Cambodia’s newly launched war on drugs is in full swing, with nearly 3,000 people arrested in the campaign’s first month of crime-busting. Authoritie ... |
| Drug control policy fuels social unrest in northern Morocco [08.02.2017] | For the past three months, the Rif region in northern Morocco has been experiencing widespread protests and social unrest following the death of Mouh ... |
| Marijuana legalization must include justice reform [31.01.2017] | Across the US, we routinely take a pledge that ends in “with liberty and justice for all.” Yet that fundamental promise has been broken in six of the ... |
| Boulder DA Stan Garnett named to group that will advise Trump administration on pot [30.01.2017] | The National District Attorney's Association created a policy group featuring 14 district attorneys from across the country who will issue advisement ... |
| Families of slain Filipinos file Supreme Court challenge to Rodrigo Duterte’s drugs war [26.01.2017] | Families of alleged drugs suspects killed by Philippine police petitioned the Supreme Court on Thursday to force police to disclose evidence linking ... |
| Albania: Europe's cannabis paradise [02.01.2017] | Despite all its promises, the Albanian government under Prime Minister Edi Rama has not managed to significantly reduce poverty in the country. Unemp ... |
| The growing movement for marijuana amnesty [22.12.2016] | With an estimated $7 billion in sales in 2016 and potentially exponential growth due to recent ballot initiatives on recreational use, the legal mari ... |
| 'They are slaughtering us like animals' [06.12.2016] | I had come to document the bloody and chaotic campaign against drugs that President Rodrigo Duterte began when he took office on June 30: since then ... |
| Medical marijuana is legal in California. Except when it’s not [21.11.2016] | California’s multibillion-dollar marijuana industry, by far the nation’s largest, is crawling out from the underbrush after voters opted to legalize ... |
| Donald Trump’s attorney general pick could destroy the recreational pot industry [21.11.2016] | Attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is a fervent foe of marijuana legalization. But if he were confirmed as President-elect Trump’s ... |
| Pusher Street: Christiania’s problem child [07.11.2016] | Christiania’s Pusher Street has been through a rough summer. During June and July police carried out a series of raids, removing booths and arresting ... |
| Obama: Federal prohibition not ‘tenable’ after state marijuana votes [04.11.2016] | President Obama says that federal laws banning marijuana will likely have to change if new states vote to legalize the drug on Tuesday. “The good new ... |
| Found in the dark [20.10.2016] | Some 400 people were charged with being “found in the dark” in Yangon, Myanmar in the first five months of 2015 alone. The charge carries a prison te ... |
| How our tax dollars are used to fund opposition to marijuana legalization, in a clear violation of ethics [19.10.2016] | This year the pharmaceutical, alcohol and prison food industries have all weighed in to oppose marijuana legalization initiatives across the country. ... |
| These British police forces have stopped arresting drug users [18.10.2016] | People caught carrying personal amounts of drugs, including cocaine and heroin, are being diverted away from the criminal justice system in what coul ... |
| Police arrest more people for marijuana use than for all violent crimes — combined [12.10.2016] | On any given day in the United States, at least 137,000 people sit behind bars on simple drug-possession charges, according to a report released by t ... |
| Duterte’s war on drugs: bitter lessons from Thailand’s failed campaign [28.09.2016] | The body count from Philippine President Duterte’s “war on drugs” is growing by the day; more than 3,000 casualties leading to broad international co ... |
| Marijuana arrests fall to lowest level since 1996 [25.09.2016] | Arrests for simple marijuana possession in the United States fell to nearly a two-decade low last year, according to new statistics released Monday b ... |
| Paradise lost: does Copenhagen’s Christiania commune still have a future? [22.09.2016] | In recent years the cannabis in Christiania trade has evolved. Once led by small-time dealers, it is now controlled by large, multinational organisat ... |
| Review ganja laws [22.09.2016] | The Government of Barbados will have to face the fact that more and more Barbadians, particularly young people, are open to the decriminalization of ... |
| Stop and search still targets black people, police watchdog says [20.09.2016] | Police stops of black people are still at an “eye-watering” level compared with white people, the official police watchdog said and promised a fresh ... |
| Duterte’s fiercest critic booted from committee investigating killings [19.09.2016] | Accused of bias after she allowed a self-confessed hitman to link Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to over a thousand murders, Senator Leila De L ... |
| Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to extend drug war as 'cannot kill them all' [18.09.2016] | Rodrigo Duterte has asked for a six-month extension for his war on drugs, saying there are too many people involved in the narcotics trade and he "ca ... |
| 'Found in the Dark' [14.09.2016] | To address its serious drug use problems, Myanmar should change its drug policy towards a harm reduction approach. Instead of a repressive approach, ... |
| Christiania residents shut down Pusher Street [01.09.2016] | After a meeting that stretched across several hours, residents of the largely self-governing commune of Christiania said they would try to shut down ... |
| Ex-top undercover drugs cop forfeits anonymity to fight against the War on Drugs [19.08.2016] | Neil Woods insists nothing good came of his 14 years as one of the UK’s most successful undercover cops, fighting the war on drugs. His painstaking, ... |
| Government could make $150 million annually from taxing cannabis [20.07.2016] | Decriminalising cannabis would generate money for the Government and ease pressure on New Zealand's courts according to an informal Treasury report. ... |
| Paraguay: The cannabis breadbasket of the Southern Cone [14.07.2016] | Paraguay is the principal producer of cannabis in South America, though nobody knows for certain how many hectares are planted with this crop, probab ... |
| The failed promise of legal pot [08.05.2016] | The risk is that, by itself, legalizing marijuana possession does not change the black market and that, even as legalization spreads, young black men ... |
| Violent Christiania police action caught on video [28.04.2016] | Two videos posted online by the Christiania-based documentary group Cadok show large-scale police action targeting the Copenhagen district’s cannabis ... |
| Owner of biggest cannabis cafe faces retrial [25.04.2016] | The Dutch supreme court has ordered a retrial of the owner of what was the country’s biggest cannabis cafe, saying a lower court ruling clearing him ... |
| Hazy legality: how legal is Dutch weed really? [14.04.2016] | Last November, the local authorities’ association VNG, which represents all 393 Dutch municipalities, issued a report stating that ‘the current situa ... |
| Cannabis arrests down 46% since 2010 - police figures [04.04.2016] | Arrests for cannabis possession in England and Wales have dropped by 46% since 2010, figures obtained by BBC Breakfast suggest. Cautions fell by 48% ... |
| The UN’s war on drugs is a failure [02.04.2016] | A policy of prohibition has put the drugs trade in the hands of criminals and led to suffering for millions. 2008 was the year that the world didn’t ... |
| Was Nixon's war on drugs a racially motivated crusade? [28.03.2016] | Last week, the internet exploded with a fairly shocking allegation: President Richard Nixon began America's war on drugs to criminalize black people ... |
| New Zealand's 'cannabis crisis': smokers confirm chronic shortage [17.03.2016] | New Zealand suffers from a chronic shortage of marijuana. The “catastrophic” situation was first reported on by Don Rowe, a staff writer at The Spino ... |
| Campaign group led by police officials calls for rethink on war on drugs [28.02.2016] | Former and serving police officers and officials from Britain, Europe and the US have told politicians that the “war on drugs” is lost and they must ... |
| Federal prosecutors maintain hard line on pot as legalization looms [21.02.2016] | As Canada heads toward a new era of legal marijuana use, federal prosecutors are still trying to jail people who grow small amounts of cannabis in th ... |
| EU finance ministers call for restrictions on €500 note over crime fears [11.02.2016] | EU finance ministers have called for an investigation into the €500 note, amid growing concern it is making life easier for terrorists, money launder ... |
| HSBC sued over drug cartel murders after laundering probe [08.02.2016] | Families of U.S. citizens murdered by drug gangs in Mexico sued HSBC Holdings Plc, claiming the bank can be held responsible for the deaths because i ... |
| Liberals’ vow to legalize pot creating chaos, police say [06.02.2016] | Canada’s frontline officers and police chiefs are alarmed by the growing chaos in the marijuana industry, saying the Liberal Party’s promise to event ... |
| Key lawmaker urges Mexico to legalize marijuana [24.01.2016] | The President of Chamber of Deputies Jesus Zambrano said that Mexico should move ahead with entirely permitting marijuana usage. Mexico should follow ... |
| Who exactly is behind the lawsuits over Colorado's legal marijuana? [16.01.2016] | Three of the four marijuana-centered lawsuits filed against Colorado officials and businesses were organized and at least partially funded by out-of- ... |
| Cannabis farms fuel human trafficking, report says [30.11.2015] | There is a continued link between the commercial cultivation of cannabis, modern slavery and people living without legal permission to remain in the ... |
| Surge in imprisonment for drug offenses raises questions over decriminalization law [11.11.2015] | A report by the Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho - CEDD), reveals that the number of people imprisone ... |
| People deprived of their liberty for drug offenses: The social costs of drug policy [02.11.2015] | The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) released a series of new studies showing that despite the ... |
| Cannabis legalisation worth millions - government report [13.10.2015] | Legalising cannabis could generate hundreds of millions a year in tax and cut costs for the police and prisons, an internal Treasury report found. Re ... |
| The other green belt [09.10.2015] | It takes a lot for marijuana growers in the UK to attract police attention. Four forces – Derbyshire, Dorset, Durham and Surrey – declared that they ... |
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