Corey Ranger

North America (Harm Reduction Nurses Association)

Corey Ranger (he/him) is the Clinical Director at AVI Health & Community Services, a board member of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC), and a research and communications intern with the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC). Based in unceded Quw’utsun Territory, Corey is a registered nurse with extensive experience in street outreach, community, and public health nursing. Since 2013, first in Alberta and now in British Columbia, he has focused on harm reduction, combining his clinical practice with project management and quality improvement expertise.

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The UN coca leaf review and indigenous peoples’ rights: can the WHO meet the moment?

The WHO’s long-overdue review of the coca leaf is a historic test of whether global drug policy can finally confront its colonial roots and uphold Indigenous rights.

News7 April 2025

Global drug policy: “Countries are being freed up to actually speak their minds”

WOLA discusses the 68th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs with leading civil society experts.

News16 December 2024

Trump’s threats of tariffs as a response to migration and the fentanyl overdose crisis

While such tariffs may seem a persuasive political message, they hinder bilateral engagement, defer blame, and perpetuate the very problems they claim to address.

News23 October 2023

Coca chronicles: Monitoring the UN coca review - Issue #1: Bolivia challenges UN coca leaf ban

TNI traces the history and current state of Bolivia's efforts to end the persecution of the coca leaf, as enshrined in global drug control treaties.

News6 April 2023

Willful blindness: INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation

The INCB's biased representation of the impacts of cannabis regulation and lack of engagement with constructive ideas to overcome its legal tensions with international law do nothing to address a growing global trend toward legally-regulated drug markets.

News5 May 2022

Biden’s new drug control strategy: Long overdue focus on harm reduction and other takeaways

The Biden administration’s drug control strategy; centering on treatment and harm reduction

News3 May 2022

A House of Cards - ‘High compliance’: A legally indefensible and confusing distraction

It is time to acknowledge that certain elements of the global drug control treaties are unfit for purpose, resting on the foundations of the colonial legacy and unjust policy approaches.

News20 December 2020

Can Biden-Harris ‘just say no’ to the endless war on drugs?

The incoming Biden-Harris administration will face several challenges in undoing the damage the 'war on drugs' has inflicted upon the Americas.

Blog21 September 2018

Trump to host UN meeting on drug policy: Veneer of consensus masks deep disagreement on global drug policy

Far from an effort at achieving mutual understanding and genuine consensus on drug policy, the "Global Call to Action" is yet another instance of heavy-handed U.S. “with us or against us” diplomacy.

Blog8 May 2018

In bid to intimidate Canada on cannabis regulation, INCB is reckless and wrong

Adapting the UN drug control system to modern realities is long overdue, and if the Board wants to protect the useful elements of the current system, the only option is to facilitate change, through honest discussion and valid guidance.

News7 May 2018

In bid to intimidate Canada on cannabis regulation, INCB is reckless and wrong

News12 December 2017

Yes, legalising marijuana breaks treaties. We can deal with that.

Current international obligations make compromise with UN Treaties inevitable.

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