For the past 3 years, the medical community has rallied to oppose attempts to place ketamine, a medicine that is indispensable for anaesthesia and pain relief, under restrictive international controls.
New South Wales children with the worst cases of drug-resistant epilepsy will be the first children in Australia given access to a cannabis-based treatment.
For the fifth year in a row, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has reported a decline in the area under coca cultivation in the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
Vancouver Coastal Health is applying to set up another five supervised injection sites in the city, similar to ones at Insite on the Downtown Eastside at at the Dr. Peter Centre in the West End.
Debates have begun in Guatemala’s Congress over whether or not the country should regulate cannabis, but given the country’s conservatism and history of stalled reform attempts, tangible change appears unlikely.
We are at a crucial moment in Canadian drug policy. The federal government has declared a restored commitment to harm reduction and public health, and is open again to discussions with civil society.
