INCB

Willful Blindness:  INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:59:41 +0000

In its Report for 2022, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the “independent, quasi-judicial expert body” that monitors the implementation of the UN drug control conventions, focuses on ...

INCB Watch

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:33:36 +0000

The objective of INCB Watch is to promote the transparency and accountability of the International Narcotics Control Board, by publishing news, publications and commentary about its activities. Go to ...

UN drugs board slams Canada cannabis legalization

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 08:33:07 +0000

After recreational marijuana became legal in Canada, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) slammed the decision in a statement calling the step incompatible with UN international drug trea ...

IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2017

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:27:09 +0000

In the approach to the 2019 Ministerial Segment and its review of international drug control, the INCB’s Annual Report for 2017 is arguably of special importance. The INCB has chosen to stress the co ...

INCB hearing on the use of cannabis for medical and non-medical purposes

Tue, 08 May 2018 09:41:15 +0000

The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) held a meeting with civil society representatives on the “the use of cannabis for medical and non-medical purposes”. The meeting brought together a nu ...

INCB should exert caution in presenting data on cannabis regulation

Mon, 07 May 2018 08:20:19 +0000

At the recent 63rd Session of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organisation of American States, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) member who was present, ...

In bid to intimidate Canada on cannabis regulation, INCB is reckless and wrong

Mon, 07 May 2018 08:37:16 +0000

On May 1, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland appeared before the Canadian Senate’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (AEFA) to discuss the international dimension ...

IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2016

Mon, 02 Oct 2017 09:56:48 +0000

The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Annual Report for 2016 is, as usual, a mixed bag of high quality data and sometimes doubtful political views. It is the final Report of the Presidency ...

IDPC response to the 2015 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board

Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:27:45 +0000

The Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB or Board) for 2015 is, like the broader international drug policy debate, coloured by what was then the approaching United Nations ...

The other opioid crisis – people in poor countries can’t get the pain medication they need

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:42:08 +0000

Hospitals in the U.S. and Europe routinely prescribe opioids for chronic cancer pain, end-of-life palliative care and some forms of acute pain, like bone fractures, sickle cell crises and burns. But ...

IDPC response to the 2014 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board

Wed, 07 Oct 2015 12:04:45 +0000

The advent of regulated cannabis markets in Uruguay and some US states over the past few years has constituted a profound shock to the international drug control regime, with the differing views repr ...

Dr. Lochan Naidoo - A frank conversation about drugs

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:27:32 +0000

The President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Dr Lochan Naidoo, became a member of International Doctors for Healthier Drug Policies (IDHDP) while attending CND 2015 in Vienna an ...

UN drugs body warns US states and Uruguay over cannabis legalisation

Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:01:42 +0000

The United Nations has renewed its warnings to Uruguay and the US states of Colorado and Washington that their cannabis legalisation policies fail to comply with the international drug treaties. The ...

IDPC response to the 2013 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board

Wed, 07 Oct 2015 13:25:45 +0000

The publication of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Report for 2013 took place in the context of major shifts in the drug policy landscape. Uruguay became the world’s first country to ...

INCB speaks out against death penalty

Wed, 05 Mar 2014 01:02:11 +0000

UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) unprecedented condemnation of the use of death penalty for drug-related offences is welcome if long overdue. The bigger question is whether INCB’s co ...

Time for UN to open up dialogue on drug policy reform and end counter-productive blame-game

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:00:01 +0000

As the UN International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) launches its annual report on Tuesday, 4 March, amidst an unprecedented crisis in the international drug control regime, leading drug policy ref ...

INCB vs Uruguay: the art of diplomacy

Tue, 17 Dec 2013 19:08:11 +0000

International tensions over Uruguay’s decision to regulate the cannabis market reached new levels when Raymond Yans, president of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), accused Uruguay of ...

'Stop lying': Uruguay president chides UN official over marijuana law

Sun, 15 Dec 2013 18:01:56 +0000

Uruguay’s president has accused the head of the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, of lying and double standards, after the official claimed the country did not consult ...

Uruguay's Prez rips into UN official over marijuana law: 'Stop lying'

Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:04:21 +0000

Uruguay's President Mujica shot back at the president of the International Narcotics Control Board, a U.N. agency, for saying that his administration refused to meet with the agency’s officials befor ...

IDPC response to the 2012 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:09:33 +0000

Despite its unprecedented nature within the history of the international drug control regime, and regardless of warnings to the contrary, the Plurinational State of Bolivia’s withdrawal from the 1961 ...