The Jacarezinho Massacre and Lethal Drug Policy Enforcement in Brazil
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It’s a Rio de Janeiro classic. Officers of the civil, military or army police make an incursion into a favela. They…
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Kasia Malinowska: The Foundation Of The U.S. War on Drugs Is Racism
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It has been 50 years since Richard Nixon declared the War on Drugs. It is well known today that one…
Bolsonaro’s Cabinet Crusade Against Cannabis is Racist and Classist
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In a context when several countries and jurisdictions are reviewing and transforming their drug policies, the Brazilian crusade against cannabis…
Drug Decriminalisation in Oregon: How’s It Going So Far?
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Tanesia DeMacon is no stranger to jail. She estimates she was arrested no fewer than 15 times, starting at the…
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…
Бразилия: “некрополитика” Президента Болсонару
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В декабре 2020 года, всего через несколько дней после того как Бразилия проголосовала “против” исключения каннабиса из списка особо опасных наркотиков…
Mexico Moves To Legalise Cannabis Use, A Modest Step Toward De-escalating Drug War
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Mexico’s lower house of Congress in March handily approved a bill to legalise the recreational use of cannabis. The bill…
Will the UN Revamp its Disastrous “Drug Free World” Campaign in Brazil?
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Amidst a global pandemic and a worldwide progressive wave of drug decriminalisation for medical purposes and adult personal use, the…
Кардинальная реформа наркополитики в Орегоне – что именно приняли?
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3 ноября 2020 года жители американского штата Орегон проголосовали за декриминализацию всех наркотиков, включая вещества из Списка IV, такие как…
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 Brazil, Bolsonaro Continues to Pump Blood to the War on Drugs
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A few days after voting against the rescheduling of cannabis at the UN’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs in December 2020,…
A Harm Reductionist’s Case for Abolition
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Since 2020’s uprisings against anti-Black police violence, communities and institutions across the country have been critically re-evaluating their relationships with…