Publications from IDPC Members

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26 February 2015

Urban drug markets and zones of impunity in Colombia

The Transnational Institute explores the assumptions and the facts behind the retail drug trade in Colombia and the responses that have been developed to tackle it.

16 February 2015

Towards a healthier legal environment: A review of Myanmar's drug laws

This paper offers an overview of Myanmar’s current legal and policy framework related to drugs and outlines some international obligations and best practices.

11 February 2015

Fixing a broken system: Modernising drug law enforcement in Latin America

The modernisation of drug law enforcement in Latin America can be a galvanizing force for changing the broader criminal justice system and perhaps show the way toward fixing a broken system.

6 February 2015

Time for a wake-up call: An historical and ethnographic approach to the regulation of plant-based stimulants

The UN drug conventions need to be reformed to monitor not just the substances themselves, but also the social contexts in which they are being used.

4 February 2015

Cannabis policy reform in Europe: Bottom up rather than top down

This briefing gives an overview of recent developments in Europe exploring legal regulation of the cannabis market as a more promising model for protecting people’s health and safety.

28 January 2015

IDPC/WOLA Briefing Paper - United States rethinks draconian drug sentencing policies

This briefing paper reviews the efforts conducted in the USA to adopt a less repressive, more proportionate, and more effective approach towards drug offenders.

27 January 2015

Fact Sheet on the proposal to discuss international scheduling of ketamine at the 58th CND

Based on accumulated evidence and data on non-medical use, diversion and trafficking, and evidence of ketamine’s therapeutic value, there are serious concerns around placing the substance under international control.

26 January 2015

Mexico: Challenging drug prohibition from below

This report analyses the effects of complicity of organised crime cells and public authorities in Mexico, where corruption and impunity are rife and civil society suffers the most.

20 January 2015

Drug user peace initiative: A war on women who use drugs

Women who use drugs are heavily stigmatised, as well as being frequently ignored, invisiblised, and sidelined in the formation of policy and approaches to harm reduction and service provision.

20 January 2015

Drug user peace initiative: A war on the health of people who use drugs

This publication gives a closer insight into the health risks associated with drug use, but also with drug prohibition.

20 January 2015

Drug user peace initiative: Stigmatising people who use drugs

This publication provides an in-depth analysis of drug prohibition, stigmatisation and criminalisation and its effects on people who use drugs.

20 January 2015

Drug user peace initiative: Violations of the human rights of people who use drugs

This publication highlights the most prevalent human rights violations of people who use drugs.