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Making a mountain out of a molehill: Myths on youth and crime in Saint Lucia

The “drug problem” is often blamed for youth involvement in crime, violence and antisocial activities in the Caribbean. This briefing shows that this relation is far more complex and often misunderstood.

Publications December 16, 2014

IDPC Drug Policy Guide

Welcome to the second edition of the IDPC Drug Policy Guide. The Guide brings together global evidence and examples of best practice to provide guidance on the review, design and implementation of national drug policies.

Publications March 15, 2012

Towards a revision of the UN drug control conventions: The logic and dilemmas of like-minded groups

Recent years have seen a growing unwillingness among increasing numbers of States parties to fully adhere to a strictly prohibitionist reading of the UN drug control conventions. Such behaviour has been driven by a belief that non-punitive and pragmatic health oriented domestic policy approaches…

Publications March 12, 2012

The UN drug control conventions: The limits of latitude

This briefing paper outlines the international legal drug control obligations, the room for manoeuvre the regime leaves open to national policy makers and the clear limits of latitude that cannot be crossed without violating the treaties.

Publications March 12, 2012

IDPC/TNI Series on legislative reform of drug policies No 14 - Conviction by numbers: Threshold quantities for drug policy

This briefing provides an overview of the current discussion around threshold quantities and explores the mechanism of threshold quantities including their benefits and drawbacks as a policy and legal tool.

Publications May 19, 2011

TNI/WOLA Report - Systems overload: Drug laws and prisons in Latin America

A comparative study on the impact of drug policies on the prison systems of eight Latin American countries reveals that drug laws have contributed to the prison crises these countries are experiencing.

Publications December 15, 2010

TNI/IDPC Series on Legislative Reform of Drug Policies No. 5 - Sentencing for drug offences in England and Wales

The purpose of this report is to examine and evaluate this mechanism for law reform, without the need for legislative reform, and to consider the specific discussion around sentencing for drug offences which it has led to.

Publications June 24, 2010

IDPC report of proceedings: The 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs and High Level Segment

This proceedings document provides the reader with a summary of what happened at the 52nd session of the CND and its High Level Segment and offers an analysis of some of the key discussions and debates.

Publications April 7, 2009

IDPC Advocacy Note - Why is the Outcome of the UN Drug Policy Review so Weak and Inconclusive?

Political representatives from over 130 countries gathered at a United Nations high level meeting in Vienna on 11th/12th March 2009 to conclude a 2-year long review of progress achieved within the global drug control system.

Publications April 6, 2009

IDPC Briefing Paper - Antonio Costa's speech to the High Level Segment of the 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

Antonio Costa, the Executive Director of UNODC gave a speech to the High Level Segment of the 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs on the 11th March 2009. The speech drew heavily on a discussion paper published by the UNODC shortly before the meeting - "Organised Crime and Its Threat to Security".

Publications March 31, 2009

Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift

This "Blue Ribbon” Commission presented its findings on February 11, 2009 in its statement, Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift.

Publications March 1, 2009

First Global Forum of Producers of Crops Declared to be Illicit

Approximately 50 producers of coca leaves, cannabis and opium poppy from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia and more than 20 experts and NGO representatives gathered at this first world forum in Barcelona, Spain from January 29 to 31, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.

Publications March 1, 2009

TNI / WOLA briefing paper - Pardon for mules in Ecuador

At the end of 2008, about 1,500 persons were released who were in Ecuadorian prisons sentenced for drug trafficking. The measure, known as "pardon for mules,” singled out a specific group of prisoners who were victims of indiscriminate and disproportionate legislation that was in effect for many…

Publications March 1, 2009

UNGASS News, Issue 6

The sixth of the IDPC's regular "UNGASS News" updates, keeping the network up to speed with developments in the UN drug policy review process is now available, and includes a report on the latest round of negotiating meetings preparing for the High Level Segment of the 2009 Commission on Narcotic…

Publications January 29, 2009

TNI Drug Policy Briefing Number 28 - Crops for Illicit Use and Ecocide

According to the Colombian government, cocaine consumers are unaware of the ecological disaster caused by production of the alkaloid. If they knew that cocaine is perpetrating ecocide in the country they would stop consuming it.

Publications January 29, 2009

TNI Drug Policy Briefing Number 26: Rewriting History: A Response to the 2008 World Drug Report

In the new 2008 World Drug Report the UNODC is trying to hide failures behind a bad history lesson.

Publications September 21, 2008

10 Years of TNI Drugs and Democracy Programme 1998 - 2008

TNI has been involved in international drugs policy work since the 1998 UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS).

Publications July 31, 2008

UNGASS News - Issue 2

This is the second edition of UNGASS News, that provides an update on the progress of the United Nations review of the global drug control system.

Publications July 31, 2008

IDPC Advocacy Note - Issues not Covered by the Working Groups

As the process of reviewing the 10-year achievements of the global drug control system continues, the IDPC has been synthesising the wide range of publications and analysis from its members into brief advocacy notes that summarise our positions on the key issues in this review.

Publications June 27, 2008

IDPC Advocacy Note - Crop Eradication and Alternative Development

Publications June 27, 2008

International Drug Policy Consortium

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Making a mountain out of a molehill: Myths on youth and crime in Saint Lucia

IDPC Drug Policy Guide

Towards a revision of the UN drug control conventions: The logic and dilemmas of like-minded groups

The UN drug control conventions: The limits of latitude

IDPC/TNI Series on legislative reform of drug policies No 14 - Conviction by numbers: Threshold quantities for drug policy

TNI/WOLA Report - Systems overload: Drug laws and prisons in Latin America

TNI/IDPC Series on Legislative Reform of Drug Policies No. 5 - Sentencing for drug offences in England and Wales

IDPC report of proceedings: The 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs and High Level Segment

IDPC Advocacy Note - Why is the Outcome of the UN Drug Policy Review so Weak and Inconclusive?

IDPC Briefing Paper - Antonio Costa's speech to the High Level Segment of the 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift

First Global Forum of Producers of Crops Declared to be Illicit

TNI / WOLA briefing paper - Pardon for mules in Ecuador

UNGASS News, Issue 6

TNI Drug Policy Briefing Number 28 - Crops for Illicit Use and Ecocide

TNI Drug Policy Briefing Number 26: Rewriting History: A Response to the 2008 World Drug Report

10 Years of TNI Drugs and Democracy Programme 1998 - 2008

UNGASS News - Issue 2

IDPC Advocacy Note - Issues not Covered by the Working Groups

IDPC Advocacy Note - Crop Eradication and Alternative Development

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