drug policy

CND 2010 session taking place from March 8th

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) is the central policy-making body for the United Nations drug control system. It has 53 members, elected for four years from amongst United Nations member states and meet annually in March. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the global drug situation, to develop proposals designed to combat drug-related problems, and to reinforce the system of controls. In addition, it can add drugs or remove them from international control under the conventions, or can change the schedules under which they are listed.

Kick and Drugs in Georgia

A car is stopped by police officer from Special Operative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (SOD) ordering to get the arrested persons out of the car. On the footage can been seen two arrestees who are turned towards the road and got the kick hind.

All the above mentioned details are screened by a SOD officer. Short after that the footage is posted on YouTube.com. This is the very officer whose voice is heard from the footage who after kicking tells the arrestees that they are free to go.

INCB criticises decriminalisation of drug use in Latin America and say nothing about Europe

The most recent report by the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) criticises Mexican, Brazilian and Argentinean governments for decriminalising the possession of drugs for personal use. The report considers that the measure “poses a threat to the coherence and effectiveness of the international drug control system and sends the wrong message to the general public”.

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Cambodian drug rehab centres: Abusive, Illegal, Ineffective

THEY have been beaten, whipped, shocked with electric batons and even raped. Food is scarce and forced labour common. Cambodians who have spent time in the country's drug detention centres describe these outrageous abuses and horrible conditions, and more.

Russia Draft Drug Policy says no to harm reduction

The Russian State Anti-drug Committee developed and posted on their website a Draft Strategy of the National Anti Drug Policy which makes controversial statements and has important omissions that threaten the future of HIV prevention among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Russia. Among key objectives the strategy indicates (Section 3.2).

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The Needle Nexus

By TINA ROSENBERG

Repressed Memories - Disbanded Protest in Moscow

On the International Drug User's Day, November 1, 2009, activists organized a protest in front of the Federal Drug Control Service (FDCS) in Moscow to pay tribute to the memory of people who died in overdoses or drug related diseases. The protesters laid flowers and white slippers (the symbol of death) on the doorsteps of the agency's building to remember the great number of lives claimed by inhumane Russian drug policy.

A new book creates a blueprint for the post-prohibition world

13/11/09

Transform, a renowned drug policy organisation, released on Thursday their new groundbreaking publication “After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for regulation”. Not only was the book launched in the UK but also at the DPA conference in Albuquerque as well as in locations around mainland Europe, South America, Asia and Australasia.

Drugs scandal engulfs Japanese pop star

The month of august has seen Japanese pop icon Noriko Sakai transformed from a squeaky clean idol, whose hits have included “Blue bunny” and “Please your smile”, to a ‘junkie’ with ‘yakuza links’ over a miniscule amount of narcotics found in her Tokyo apartment.

New ‘tactics’ for drug policy

The UK Drug Policy has suggested that new measures are need to access the impact of police approaches to tackling drugs. They are needed so that operations are judged on real benefits to communities, not simply arrests and seizures.

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