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A new EU Drug Strategy is being repared by the German presidency

The International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) sent an open letter to the members of the Horizontal Working Party on Drugs (HDG) to reject the EU Drugs Agenda. The German EU presidency is now in charge of revising it. It was revealed at the online annual plenary meeting of the Civil Society Forum on Drugsthat Member States did not accept the new EU Drugs Agendaproposed by the EU Commission. The HDG decided that a new EU strategy will be prepared by the German presidency. In a previous article we made some critical remarks about the new EU Drugs Agenda presented by the EU Commission.
Martín Barriuso se despide de la lucha cannábica defendiendo el derecho de los usuarios a elegir quién les provea de cannabis

Martín Barriuso fue pionero en materia de clubes cannábicos en España. Hoy día ya se han visto muchos, pero hace 16 años, cuando este vizcaíno fundó Pannagh, crear una asociación cannábica era un acto casi revolucionario. Más que haber estado en primera línea del debate regulatorio durante más de dos décadas, lo ha generado. Porque hasta la llegada de los clubes, el debate no existía aún en este país. Por eso, porque si hay un argumento de autoridad en materia cannábica es el de Martín Barriuso, queremos hablar con él de cannabis, antes de que se retire de este campo por completo. Esto es lo que nos ha contado. (Véase también: Los Clubes Sociales de Cannabis en España | El 60% de la sociedad vasca ve con buenos ojos la regulación de los clubes de asociaciones de consumidores)
Nowhere to hide

Traditionally, the UN and governments have measured progress in drug policy in terms of flows and scale; principally the numbers of people arrested, hectares of drug crops eradicated and the amounts of drugs seized. For years now, IDPC and many civil society colleagues (in particular the Global Drug Policy Observatory (GDPO), CELS, the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation, and the Social Science Research Council among others), have advocated against such an approach, because of its inability to truly assess the real impacts of drug control policy – especially for communities affected by the illicit drug trade on the one hand and by drug policies on the other.
On the road towards the 2019 Ministerial Segment

UN member states have agreed to hold a Ministerial Segment immediately prior to the 62^nd Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) ‘to take stock of the implementation of the commitments made to jointly address and counter the world drug problem, in particular in the light of the 2019 target date’ set out to eradicate or significantly reduce the overall scale of the illegal drug market. This advocacy note outlines the key issues for consideration by member states as they reflect on what has been achieved since the adoption of the 2009 Political Declaration and Plan of Action, including in light of the implementation of the UNGASS Outcome Document, and the implications for the next phase of the international drug policy regime.

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Switzerland set to launch cannabis pilot projects 2021

In September 2020, the Swiss parliament adopted a modification to the Federal Act on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances. The change provides a legal framework for a pilot project that would see legal and government-controlled supply initiatives established in 2021. The projects are expected to provide data on the use of cannabis by the Swiss and contribute to substantiating any potential future regulations. A few days after its passing, a complimentary parliamentary initiative was submitted by a member of the National Council (the lower house of the Swiss legislature). The initiative aims to flesh out a political response to the regulation of cannabis, proposing standards similar to those in place for alcohol.
UN Common Position on drug policy

In November 2018, the UN System CEB adopted the ‘UN system common position supporting the implementation of the international drug control policy through effective inter-agency collaboration’, expressing the shared drug policy principles of all UN organisations and committing them to speak with one voice. The CEB is the highest-level coordination forum of the UN system, convening biannual meetings of the heads of all UN agencies, programmes and related institutions, chaired by the UN Secretary General.

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civil society

A new EU Drug Strategy is being repared by the German presidency

Martín Barriuso se despide de la lucha cannábica defendiendo el derecho de los usuarios a elegir quién les provea de cannabis

Nowhere to hide

On the road towards the 2019 Ministerial Segment

Switzerland set to launch cannabis pilot projects 2021

UN Common Position on drug policy

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