The policy forum brought together international and local experts and policymakers and stressed anti-drug policy must shift from punishment to treatment, emphasising the need to introduce harm reduction policies.
The war on drugs drives mass incarceration leading to overcrowding and some of the worst prison conditions seen in the world - a "human rights disaster".
The U.N. Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights have sharply criticised President Duterte's approach to drug policy and Philippine extra-judicial killings
In February 2016, Macedonia legalised medicinal cannabis but the law is far from ideal. Healthy Options Project Skopje – HOPS – carried out an analysis of the law.
Treating and curing active drug and alcohol users, and removing prison as the primary intervention for those with substance use disorders, must be at the center of the global response to viral hepatitis.
Students for Drug Policy reform aims to bring young people together and create a safe civic space for students of all political and ideological stripes to have honest conversations about drugs and drug policies in Ghana.
Legal regulation models around the globe might inform changes in domestic policy in West Africa, have a look at this great infographic comparing cannabis regulation in the Netherlands, Portugal, and the USA.
