Colombia After Petro: The Unfinished Business of Petro’s Drug Policy Reform
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On 25 April, a bomb shattered the Pan-American Highway in Cauca, southwest Colombia. 21 were killed in the deadliest attack…
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We Need to Talk About Extra Strong Weed
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A man and woman are sitting in a room, the woman playing the piano, while both take drags from a…
It’s Not the Drugs: Sexual Violence under Prohibition and Patriarchy
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There are forms of violence that are spoken of openly, and there are others that slip through like shadows. There…
Trump’s “Narco-Terrorism” Operations in Ecuador: A New Phase of the Donroe Doctrine?
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On 3 March 2026, US Southern Command, the military unit overseeing operations in Central and South America, announced via X…
How anti-ICE activists joined forces with harm reductionists in Philadelphia
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Back in January, a video of a group of armed Black men dressed in bomber jackets and berets at an…
The Decriminalisation Playbook: New UNAIDS Report Lays Out Pathway for HIV Response
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For decades, the global “war on drugs” has been sold as what’s best for public health: by harshly criminalising drug…
The Aesthetics of Drug Prohibition and Harm Reduction
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The Opioid Crisis Lookbook, (OCL) is the provocative title of a magazine started in 2022. Even without reading the magazine…
How International Drug Policy Is Increasingly Fragmented
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For many years, international drug policy seemed stuck in tired rhetoric about a ‘drug-free world’. International discussions repeatedly called for…
UNGASS: 10 Years of Failing International Drug Policy Progress
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The world is losing the global war on drugs, and it is losing it badly. This is the core message…
Donroe Doctrine: What Is the Logic Behind Trump’s Drug Strategy?
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The first year of Donald Trump’s scandalous second term in the White House has seen some historic changes in drug…
Jackson, Michigan Designates Psychedelics as Lowest Law Enforcement Priority
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On Tuesday, December 16, the Jackson, Michigan City Council passed a resolution to deprioritise the enforcement of laws against the…
British Columbia Abandons Decriminalisation Policy Despite Promising Data
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On 14 January 2026, British Columbia (B.C.) announced it would end its limited decriminalisation policy and reinstate criminal penalties for…