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Becoming a Woman Who Uses Crack: Breaking Silences in Brazil

Feb 24, 2023

TalkingDrugs has partnered with Luana Malheiro, anthropologist and drugs researcher from Brazil, to bring to life her insights from her…

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Legalise Cocaine To Save the Amazon

Felipe Neis Araujo

Jan 23, 2023

45 years ago, foreign ministers of eight countries bordering the Amazon rainforest signed a treaty for Amazonian cooperation. The pact…

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After Coca: How the Drug War Colonises the Colombian Forest

André Gomes & Guillermo Ospina

Nov 15, 2022

One of the first and consistent targets of the global War on Drugs has been the coca plant. Even after…

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“Let’s stop strategies that don’t work!”: Interview with Paula Aguirre, Director of Elementa

Raúl Lescano Méndez

Oct 24, 2022

Continuing a collaboration with Proyecto Soma, TalkingDrugs has had privileged access to high figures within the Latin American drug policy…

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Guidelines for Colombia’s New Drug Policy under Petro

Lucas Marín Llanes

Sep 8, 2022

In an effort to guide future Colombian drug policy, several researchers from the Centro de Estudios y Seguridad y Drogas…

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Венесуэла: вглядываясь в бездну наркополитики

Mauro Echeverría перевод — Anastasia Bezverkha

May 13, 2022

Наркополитика Венесуэлы — бездна, в которую тяжело заглянуть снаружи, и тяжело оценить реальную картину. За время диктатуры Мадуро, у нас…

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“I’ve seen more people leave than stay, and many of them die”: Peter Krykant’s 12-step experience

Peter Krykant

Feb 22, 2022

Talking and writing about my 12 step experiences publicly is hard, you must be prepared to accept that you will…

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Drug Policy Should Protect Social Leaders, Not Expose Them

Lucas Marín Llanes

Jan 10, 2022

Lucas Marín Llanes recently published an investigation for the International Journal of Drug Policy on how the Colombian crop substitution…

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DRUG ALERTS – August 2021 (UK)

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Aug 14, 2021

DRUG ALERT – 14 August 2021 Portsmouth, Hampshire & London The following information is for people who use heroin…

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Трилемма наркополитики: как эффективно бороться с наркотиками, обеспечив также мир и развитие?

Talking Drugs

May 27, 2021

Смерть 25 человек в результате полицейского рейда в Рио де Жанейро в мае 2021 года вновь актуализировала фокус “войны с наркотиками”…

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Cocaine: Falling Coffee Prices Force Peru’s Farmers To Cultivate Coca

Thomas Grisaffi & Linda Farthing

Feb 9, 2021

A slump in world coffee prices has pushed farmers in Peru’s central jungle to rip up their plants and replace…

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Великие наркоманы Серебряного века

Talking Drugs

Sep 21, 2020

Тема влияния наркотиков на культуру Серебряного века терпеливо ждет своего исследователя. Подкинем несколько имен и цитат, не все же из раза в раз вспоминать одного Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова…