An Insight into Colombia’s Drug Policy
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This is the first article of Mauro Echeverria’s “The Great Colombia: A Drug Policy Profile of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador”…
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The Uncovered Truth: How the opium poppy cultivation in Kyrgyzstan ended
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TalkingDrugs is excited to present to its readers an extract from Sputnik.kg on the origins of opium cultivation in Kyrgyzstan.…
Militarism, Prohibitionism, Drug War: A Formula for Massacre
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On the 6th of May, agents of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro entered the community of Jacarezinho to…
Трилемма наркополитики: как эффективно бороться с наркотиками, обеспечив также мир и развитие?
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Смерть 25 человек в результате полицейского рейда в Рио де Жанейро в мае 2021 года вновь актуализировала фокус “войны с наркотиками”…
Global Harm Reduction Funding Crisis Is Worse Than Ever
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Globally, 2019 saw 1.7 million new HIV infections, with 690,000 deaths from complications related to AIDS. There are now an estimated…
Drugs ‘Trilemma’: How To Halt The Deadly Trade While Still Ensuring Development And Peace
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The deaths of 25 people in a police raid on drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro have brought the “war…
World Executions for Drug Charges Fell Sharply Amid COVID. It’s Likely Temporary.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world last year, governments executed far fewer people for drug convictions than they did in…
UNDP Brazil Condones Forced Abstinence and Religious Pathologisation of People Who Use Drugs
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The United Nations Development Programme–Brazil is taking further steps in its ideological alignment with Jair Bolsonaro’s cabinet. TalkingDrugs recently reported…
Cocaine: Falling Coffee Prices Force Peru’s Farmers To Cultivate Coca
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A slump in world coffee prices has pushed farmers in Peru’s central jungle to rip up their plants and replace…
In The World’s Forgotten Borderlands, The Drug Trade Helps People Survive – But At A Cost
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When Jangul’s* village on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan was bombed in the war between the Soviet communist regime…
“Vidas Negras Importam”: Racism, Police Violence And COVID-19 In Brazil’s Favelas
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Amidst the coronavirus pandemic which has already claimed 60,000 lives in Brazil, police are still routinely targeting Black people and…
Drug Users are not Damaging the Environment, the War on Drugs is
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It is not our search for pleasure that is so damaging to the environment, but corporal greed, social injustice, and…