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Nice people take drugs

Release, the campaigning organisation that specialises in drugs and drugs law, is running an advert campaign on London buses during June.  With the slogan ‘Nice People Take Drugs’, Release is looking to open up the drugs debate and engage the public in a more sophisticated and honest drugs dialogue.

Grown women are being treated like naughty children

When Charlie Sheen unceremoniously burst onto centre stage earlier this year, his star went stratospheric. Sheen’s eccentricity - his delusional aggressiveness and outrageously arrogant, quasi-spiritual belief in himself, generated a mixture of astonishment and veneration in the public.

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.

Women's Reproductive Rights Are Being Threatened

Last month, The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) issued new guidelines on female contraceptive sterilization. In its thorough insistence on the rights of women to make decisions about their reproductive health, it recognizes the ways in which women (particularly those who are marginalized) have historically been made to submit to non-consensual sterilization measures. FIGOs guidelines call on healthcare providers and policymakers to practically recognize forced sterilization as a violation of human rights.

Out of hell

I never thought that someone could enjoy drugs as much as I do without actually taking any. This idea can look a little bit contradictory at first, but if I tell you that my job involves a little bit of drug policy and lots of field-work with people in rehabilitation you will soon grasp that I know what I am talking about. 

Ex-cop’s son to hang for ganja trafficking

 The son of a retired policeman was sentenced to the gallows by the High Court after he was found guilty of trafficking ganja (cannabis) weighing 2.3 kilogrammes, two years ago.
Judge Datuk Abdul Rahim Uda handed down the sentence to Mohamad Hasnizam Hussein, 33, after finding the defence had failed to raise any reasonable doubts in the prosecution’s case.
Abdul Rahim also ordered Mohamad Hasnizam, an insurance claims advisor, to serve two years jail to another charge, of being in possession of 10.52 grammes of ganja.

UN drugs chief sticks to punitive policy

International efforts to tackle the "global threat" of illicit drugs must be "rejuvenated" in accordance with a 50-year-old convention despite a series of major failings, the head of the UN drugs and crime agency has told The Independent.
This week, Yury Fedotov acknowledged that global opium production increased by almost 80 per cent between 1998 and 2009, and the international market for drugs is now worth as much as $320bn (£199bn) a year – making it the world's 30th-largest industry.

Bernard Rappaz enters 76th day of hunger strike over Swiss Marijuana laws

Esther Kalbermatten-Waeber at the Valais cantonal court has rejected the appeal of Bernard Rappaz, the Swiss hemp activist and marijuana farmer currently serving 5 years in prison, for his sentence to be overturned. He is protesting by going on a hunger strike, so far lasting 76 days.

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