28 February 2020Jamaican gov’t assisting transition of traditional ganja growers to legal industryThe government seeks to demonstrate the legal cannabis industry can offer alternative livelihoods and benefit from the knowledge and expertise of traditional growers.
28 February 2020African declaration to eliminate hepatitis C and improve the health of people who use drugsExperts from the region call for increased efforts to scale up and remove barriers to health services.
28 February 2020Drugs trade in the UK causing unprecedented harm with policing often fuelling violence, landmark review findsThe first phase of the review highlights a broad range of shortcomings underpinning increases in drug-related harm.
28 February 2020Supervised injection site in South Philadelphia will not open — at least for nowDespite a recent federal judge ruling in its favour, local opposition has thwarted the opening of the first site in the US.
28 February 2020Thailand: Prisons buckle under overcrowdingThailand has roughly 360,000 inmates nationwide but a prison capacity of technically only 250,000.
