drug policy

Women and drug policy in Eurasia

The Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) has released today, International Women’s Day, an interesting report about women and drug policy in the region. The development of drug harm reduction in Eurasia has seen some progress in recent years, but drug policies and services rarely meet the specific needs of female drug users.

    Looking for an Alternative - The Drug Policy Situation in Georgia

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    A film by Hungarian Civil Liberties Union on the drug policy situation in Georgia.

      Debating Drug Policy

      This year the Central European University in Budapest, in cooperation with the Global Drug Policy Program and the Open Society University, will be again conducting a summer course entitled ‘Human Rights and Drug Policy’.

      The course aims to situate global drug policies within the framework of human rights and assess the extent to which countries fail to meet these standards. Participants will discuss and debate international human rights agreements and laws and attempt to assess to what extent these rights have been implemented by various countries.  

        A new drug policy in Basque Country

        Basque Country parliament proposes an amendment to the Addiction Law during the presentation of the VI Addictions Plan 2011-2015.  The proposal to be discussed next year would allow over-18 to cultivate, sale and consume of hashish and marijuana. The bill includes measures for prevention and treatment drug “addiction” and other addictions such as gambling and new technologies.

          Drugs and development, making a positive choice – IDPC/TalkingDrugs Magazine, 3

          The primary producers and consumers of illicit drugs – drug users and farmers of opium, coca and cannabis – are often some of the most marginalised groups in our societies. This is true in both high and low income countries, although the alleviation of poverty is at the heart of what the Millennium Development Goals were set out to achieve.

            Talking about human rights violations in the name of drug control – IDPC/Talking Drugs Magazine, 1

            Drug policy is too often abstract. Government policy makers and Vienna-based diplomats spend much of their time debating drug law ideology, while forgetting the realities of people badly hurt by the laws and policies they create. That's why IDPC, in collaboration with Talking Drugs, initiated a series of magazines which feature personal stories behind the policy debates to give a flavour of how policies affect the real, lived experiences of people on the ground.

              Vicente Fox says that the drugs war is failing his country

              The former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, is the latest high-profile figure to call for an end to the ‘war on drugs’, which he now considers to be a brutally misguided and expensive failure.

              Fox (who was himself a strong supporter of the aggressive US-led campaign against drugs when he was in power from 2002 to 2006) last month publicly advocated the legalization of drugs as a way to limit the gang violence that has devastated many parts of Mexico.

                State of Apathy

                Eric Perez died in custody the night of his arrest, after six-and-a-half hours of vomiting with guards taking no action. The teenager, from West Palm Beach, Florida, was on probation and stopped for riding his bike without lights and arrested for having less than a gram of marijuana on him. The story was hardly picked up, and as a Florida resident, I can say that the majority of Floridians have not heard it. Many realize Florida has a serious problem staying out of the news, especially with bizarre cases.

                  Importance of ThinkingDrugs

                  I remember countless times when social media websites pointed out very amateur surveys -  determining what show character you resemble or what your spirit animal is. Most are poorly designed. They carry 4 or 5 profiles, and it seems like everyone falls under the same 2 or 3. ThinkingDrugs is not that sort of survey. It is much more comprehensive and should be of great use to many. The survey has the user find their stance on drug policy, but also has users address many controversial situations to discover their stance.

                    "Cocaine for beggars" in Russia

                    They call it "cocaine for beggars" - cheap synthetic drugs which flooded streets of many cities of Russia.

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