The manifesto "You are also a victim in the war on drugs" outlines its structured approach to transition the country away from its punitive, racist and classist War on Drugs. Source: Manifesto's website
14 September 2022
Drug Policy
Petro's new Government and his commitment to drug policy change could usher in a new future of drug control for Colombia and the world. Source: Gabriel Leonardo Guerrero
8 September 2022
An Iranian drug trafficker who was arrested and hung for the crime of smuggling eight kilograms of heroin in 2014. Source: Wikimedia Commons
6 September 2022
Parliamentary proceedings in Ghana require an early presentation of any bill amendments before they can be passed into law. Source: Delali Adogla-Bessa
1 September 2022
The purple "Ni una mas!" is a permanent monument - also called the anti-monument - to murdered women in Mexico and femicide in the heart of the city. Source: Thayne Tuason
23 August 2022
Soldiers and cops occupied the Favela da Rocinha in 2017 to execute prison warrants against drug dealers. There is a scene in the classic TV show The Wire in which Major Colvin says: “ I mean, you call something a war and pretty soon everybody gonna be running around acting like warriors. They gonna be running around on a damn crusade, storming corners, slapping on cuffs, racking up body counts. And when you are at war, you need a fucking enemy. And pretty soon, damn near everybody on every corner is your fucking enemy. And soon the neighbourhood that you're supposed to be policing, that's just occupied territory.” Source: Wikimedia Commons/Author: Fernando Frazao
17 August 2022
Source: Flickr
5 August 2022
Finnish citizens have crowdsourced enough signatures to secure a parliamentary discussion of drug consumption rooms in the near future. Source: Gadag
3 August 2022
Julián Quintero is a sociologist from the National University of Colombia. In 2008 he founded the Social Technical Action Corporation that would give rise to the Échele Cabeza project. (Photo: Fran Brivio)
1 August 2022
“Your leaves of green, your purples and blue/ Has cured little kids, and old women too/ And I say to myself, what a wonderful herb!” (Damian and Stephen Marley, ‘Medication’). According to the Brazilian government, there is no such thing as medical cannabis, despite all the evidence presented in the medical literature. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Author: Tomaz Silva.
29 July 2022