Colombia's investment in coca's promising potential could support ending vicious circles of stigmatisation, informality and research stagnation.

At a recent workshop organised under the SPIRIT project, transgender sex workers who use drugs shared experiences and learning on harm reduction and the need for alternatives to punishment.

A regulated cannabis market could ensure traditional varieties, as well as cultivation and production practices, are valued and benefit traditional growers.

The Swiss experiment seeks to build an evidence-base to inform potential future regulatory proposals.

Together, the three case studies underscore the importance of applying tailored methods to better reach and meet the needs of women who use drugs and of supporting women themselves to participate meaningfully in the programme design, implementation, and evaluation.

As almost all coca leaf markets have been disrupted by the pandemic situation and prices have fallen, coca growers throughout the Andean region are in dire need of assistance.

Despite the difficulties farmers face, cannabis production remains the most immediately viable and rapidly scalable livelihood in the Rif mountains.

Governments are quick to pay lip service to the importance of young people in drug policy design, but they rarely offer a seat at the table.

Under the constraints imposed by the pandemic situation, young people are developing creative ways to organise against punitive drug policy.

Language can contribute to undo the damage punitive drug policies inflict on the lives of people who use drugs.

While repressive drug policies have weaponised the state against communities of colour, it is sadly crucial to remember it was in part designed to do just that.

As prisons in South East Asia are dangerously overcrowded, the release of prisoners incarcerated for drug offences in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is a matter of life and death.

Tandon recounts how India's decision to impose a lockdown, forcing people who use drugs to go through withdrawals without treatment, can result in tragic deaths, highlighting the need for a policy change.

Ann Fordham (IDPC Executive Director) discusses key #CND63 highlights.

The Narcotics Control Bill recently passed by Ghana's Parliament shows a West African approach to drug policy is possible, and much needed

We must ask ourselves: How realistic can the AIDS Free Africa agenda be if we leave behind a whole key population? People who use drugs are being relegated to the margins.

This powerful account of women's life stories sheds light on the shared patterns of abuse that women who use drugs experience throughout their lives, and most violently, through their time in treatment and rehabilitation centres in Mexico.

Campaigners and civil society must ensure the negative impacts of the war on drugs do not get side-lined in forums on peace and development.

In a context of scarce transparency and accountability on the impacts of drug control, civil society proposes better tools for monitoring and assessment.

Overdose deaths are skyrocketing, especially in North America and Northern Europe. This alarming situation calls for increased funding to harm reduction approaches that empower communities.