From Opium To Meth: How Myanmar Became The World’s Leading Producer Of Methamphetamine
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Myanmar and its remote borderlands have long been a global centre for illegal drug production. Due to its isolated location…
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Climate Lessons from Cambodia’s Illegal MDMA Market
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Cambodia’s experience with MDMA production provides important lessons about managing the environmental repercussions of illicit drug production, which are particularly…
Drug Executions in Iran Are Back on the Rise
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A recent press release from Amnesty in July 2022 highlighted a spike in Iranian executions, where at least 251 people…
Indonesian Drug Policy Victimises Women and Damages Their Health
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This article is published to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26. On…
Ronda Girls: How Filipino Mothers Took on the War on Drugs
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A group of impacted mothers showed how an alternative to the violent drug war in the Philippines could be better…
Tracing The History of Hallucinogens in China
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Professor Fan Pen Li Chen, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies & Department Chair of East Asian Studies in the State…
“Duterte has degraded the discourse so much it’s become a matter of whether to kill or not” – Gideon Lasco on Drugs and the Philippines
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An academic by training, Gideon Lasco does not limit his career to producing journal articles and book chapters. Beyond academia,…
Taliban and opium poppy: should we expect a ban on cultivation?
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In 2000, the Taliban were in power and due to the official ban on opium cultivation, the world market fell…
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”…
Cruel Cages: How the Most Overcrowded Prison in the World Ignored a Pandemic
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Philippine jails are known for two things – the dancing inmates of Cebu who to the tune of Michael Jackson’s…
Beyond Duterte: A Legacy Of Punitive Drug Policies In The Philippines
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These days, any invocation of the Philippine drug war instantly summons the figure of Rodrigo Duterte to mind. This is…
Thailand: Medical Cannabis is Legal. But Not Certain
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The medical cannabis industry in Thailand is growing slowly and tentatively, but the potential is huge. Over the past few…