Cannabis has not been reviewed by the WHO since 1934 and much has changed since then. DrugScience produced and presented a report (alongside IDPC) which has now led the WHO to order a cannabis pre-review for CND 2018.
The Georgian Constitutional Court has ruled it unconstitutional to use sanctions prescribed by the law for consumption, purchase, possession and cultivation of cannabis for personal use.
Authorities have brought an unsanctioned supervised-injection site that’s operated in the Downtown Eastside under the umbrella of Vancouver’s formal health-care system.
The UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions has called on the Philippines to lift a series of preconditions it has imposed on her planned visit to investigate the extra-judicial killings since President Rodrigo Duterte took office.
As we begin 2017, Gino Vumbaca, President of Harm Reduction Australia, lays out a path towards making Australia a safer and more humane country with respect to drug policy.
The incoming Thai Justice Minister has called for a more comprehensive, balanced approach, but shied from engaging with his predecessor’s idea to decriminalise certain substances.
More than 400 people have been arrested for drug crimes since a new six-month narcotics crackdown started on New Year’s Day, a measure experts have deemed counterproductive.