Coca & CocaineDrug PolicyDrug TraffickingDrugs & DevelopmentFuturo Coca: Imagining a New Future for Coca in ColombiaDaniela Jaimes Rico.Aug 25, 2023The first edition of the Futuro Coca festival took place in Bogotá, Colombia, on 31 July. The event brought together…
Coca & CocaineDrug TraffickingPersonal StoriesCome Ship Some Cocaine With Me: How Cocaine Enters EuropeSimon Coy.Jul 28, 2023I have been invited to write about the production, logistics, and transportation of cocaine, particularly the UN’s Office of Drugs…
Drug PolicyOther DrugsSingapore’s brutal drug laws and the fight to abolish the death penaltyAndré Gomes.Jun 23, 2023Activists in Singapore have been fighting to end the death penalty in the Southeast Asian country. After highly-covered executions at…
Drug Harm ReductionOther DrugsWe Asked the Experts: What Exactly is in Ketamine?André Gomes.Aug 18, 2022Ketamine was first synthesised in 1962 and has had an interesting history both within the “legitimate” medical world, and more…
Drug Harm ReductionOther DrugsWe Asked Experts: What Exactly is in the MDMA Supply?André Gomes.Jun 28, 2022The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its geopolitical shocks have been felt across multiple industries, including the illegal drug market. While…
Interactive Map: Drug Decriminalisation Across the WorldTalking Drugs, Release & the IDPC.Jun 1, 2022Our newly updated web-tool shows the countries and jurisdictions across the world have adopted some form of decriminalisation for drug use and…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyDrugs & WomenBarcelona Declaration: The Drug War is a War on Womxn Who Use Drugsdash.Mar 8, 2019In February 2019, more than 40 womxn from Europe and Central Asia met in Barcelona to work together on intersectional…
Drug Harm ReductionPersonal StoriesMy “Ten Commandments” of Safer Drug UseDominic Milton Trott.Jan 26, 2018Dominic Milton Trott is the author of The Honest Drug Book, which documents safety information for 140 different substances, and includes…
Drug Harm ReductionActivists from Eastern Europe held a protest against the greed of pharmaceutical companies during AIDS2016 – VIDEOAnastasia Bezverkha.Jul 20, 2016Activists from Eastern Europe held a protest against the greed of international pharmaceutical companies during AIDS2016 – the World Conference…