Delegates at the World Health Assembly push for renewed efforts to address the world drug problem by promoting further collaboration between UN organs and affirmation of the health-related recommendations in the 2016 outcome document.
France plans to decriminalise personal possession of cannabis where punishment for the offense will take the form of tickets requiring the payments of fines instead.
The Loop, a drug welfare and service organisation, is to provide drug testing at a selection of UK music festivals this year after a number of drug related deaths.
The Montreal sites are modelled after Vancouver-based Insite, which was the first city in North America to have a legal, supervised injection site beginning in 2003.
