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Effort to legalize marijuana in New Jersey collapses

Due to domestic party disagreement, the Democrats were unable to pass a bill to legalise cannabis and that to many was an 'urgent' civil rights issue and an opportunity to deal with the consequences of the war on drugs on minorities.

News Alerts 17 aprile 2019English

Room for improvement: How drug consumption rooms save lives

Jarryd Bartle explores the UK’s slow progress to implement the use of Drug consumption rooms (DRC) which from an evidence based perspective have reduced drug-related deaths and reached out to otherwise marginalised populations.

Publications 17 aprile 2019English

Israel decriminalizes adult use cannabis during CannaTech conference In Tel Aviv

The 'land of milk, honey and cannabis', Israel who have proven the benefits of medicinal cannabis have subsequently legalised possession of home-grown marijuana, asserting the nations position as a top earning global hub in the marijuana market.

News Alerts 17 aprile 2019English

Sixty-fifth regular session of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD)

8 - 10 maggio 2019

Buenos Aires, Argentina

The 65th Regular Session of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) will take place on May 8-10, 2019 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Events 16 aprile 2019English

Joint statement on the death penalty

The EU has called upon Sri Lanka and the Maldives to abandon their position on the death penalty for drug convictions. As of 2015 there were over 1,000 individuals on death row and in February of this year, President Maithripala Sirisena told the Sri Lankan government that the death penalty for…

News Alerts 15 aprile 2019English

New cannabis-amnesty bill could pardon 10,000 people, Ottawa says

With upwards of 250,000 individual convictions for those in possession of less than 30 grams of cannabis in Ottawa and only around 10,000 expected pardon requests, Murray Rankin, the NDP’s deputy justice critic suggests a better move would be to expunge all convictions - as they did for those…

News Alerts 15 aprile 2019English

Crack cocaine and the case for regulation

With police officials admitting legal disruption does little to reduce the growing supply of cocaine production, a legally regulated market pose a better alternative to the failing status quo.

News Alerts 11 aprile 2019English

South East Asian Fellowship Program on Drug Policy 2019

The fellowship seeks to increase the capacity of emerging and new leaders in drug policy in the Asian region, including people not necessarily working full-time on drug-related issues.