The conference favoured the exchange of information and the strengthening of networks between activists, civil servants and representatives from international organisations.
By expanding the role of the military in drug control policy Argentina is failing to learn the lessons from its neighbours, running the risk of motivating extra-judicial killings and human rights abuses without reducing crime levels.
President Joko Widodo thinks Indonesians will change their minds on execution laws as citizens in Europe had done in the past. "We are very open to options" he said.
Although the Action Plan facilitates the availability of evidence-based treatment options, calls for the implementation of harm reduction programs, and the collation of epidemiological data, key issues remain to be addressed.
Overnight the number of American citizens with access to legal, regulated, recreational weed rose by over 50 million to just under 70 million people but a Trump presidency could potentially have put it all at risk.
The city of Warsaw is to implement a two-year program to reform city drug policy and the Polish Drug Policy Network will take further actions to encourage the EU to develop a common drug strategy for use at local level.
President-elect Donald Trump has been vociferous about the negative effects of legalisation but also said that recreational and medical marijuana should be legislated at the state level.
According to the state-sanctioned narrative, the violence is the fault of Mexico's drug cartels. However, evidence suggests that local and federal police and the military are complicit in many killings.