Constellations is a Harm Reduction International festival of ideas, conversations and drug policy discussions. Tickets can be purchased here.
15 November 2021
Drugs & Development
The border between Ecuador and Colombia. Picture taken by author.
22 October 2021
Collection of medicinal poppy in the collective farm "Issyk-Kul" of the Djety-Oguz region, 1963. Source: Sputnik
8 October 2021
Bolsonaro poses with the symbol of the Special Police Operations Battalion (BOPE in the Portuguese acronym) of the Military Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro in August 2020. It might be one of those strange coincidences that happen in Brazil, but the BOPE symbol bears a gruesome resemblance to the emblem of the paramilitary death squad Scuderie Detetive Le Cocq, formed in 1965 in Rio de Janeiro. BOPE was established in 1978. Also coincidentally, one of the paramilitaries who assassinated councilwoman Marielle Franco, former BOPE officer Ronnie Lessa, was officialy registered in Scuderie Detetive Le Cocq ranks. Lessa and Bolsonaro lived in the same condominium in Rio de Janeiro, and his daughter dated one of the president’s sons. Source: Palácio do Planalto/Author: Marcos Correa.
28 June 2021
Photograph via National Institutes of Health
24 May 2021
The drugs-development-peacebuilding policy trilemma. Jonathan Goodland/Patrick Meehan, SOAS, Author provided
11 May 2021
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences 2020: Country by Country. Source: HRI
13 April 2021
Emblem of the United Nations. Source: Wikipedia
6 April 2021
Peruvian farmers admire a newly planted coca field. Thomas Grisaffi, Author provided
9 February 2021
