The International Crisis Group warns of devastating effects for impoverished farmers impacted by the Taliban's new anti-narcotics campaign and opium ban, and calls for economic support.
Responding to expanding coca cultivation in Central America with policies like forced eradication could create potential devasting harm for communities and ecological systems.
Howell et al. highlight the need for South Africa’s evolving cannabis policy to strike a delicate balance between public health, economic interests, and social justice amidst rural cultivation and thriving illicit markets.
This measure is a recent step in the country's drug policy shift, aiming to develop alternative livelihoods and establish a legal cannabis market for medical and industrial purposes.
Without governmental support, Mpondoland’s traditional cultivators face stiff competition to participate in the nascent legal cannabis market in South Africa.
UNODC provide an update on global drug markets, trends, and policy developments – including, for the first time, a chapter on the right to health and drug use.
Slovenian voters step towards reform, supporting the use of cannabis for medical purposes although a narrow yet win was secured for cannabis for limited personal use.
Thomson et al. examine coca, opium poppy and cannabis cultivation through the lens of agrarian political economy, drawing attention to key challenges for cultivators posed by synthetics and policy.
Rusenga et al. explore the inequity experienced by small-scale cannabis farmers engaged in the nascent medical cannabis market and the factors that contribute to its continued illicit cultivation in Zimbabwe.
Germany's cannabis reform signals a continental step in the right direction, but it is also a missed opportunity to centre racial justice and social equity
