Ahead of COP30, this webinar will discuss the findings of a new report on the impact of drug prohibition in the Brazilian Amazon, showing how criminalisation has prevented meaningful climate justice.
Health Poverty Action proposes restructuring illegal trades to prioritise public health, equity, and sustainability rather than reproducing harmful market practices.
IDPC joins over 30 organisations worldwide calling for a stop to the Yukthiya operation, the end of compulsory centres and arbitrary detention, and resources for evidence-based treatment and care.
The International Coalition on Drug Policy Reform and Environmental Justice shines a light on how global drug prohibition fuels organised crime, corruption and environmental devastation, and calls for closer collaboration between environmental and drug policy movements.
While the report explores the links between drug policy and the environment, it fails to grapple with the role of prohibition in environmental destruction.
Through participatory workshops, activists, policymakers and farmers collectively envisioned models of legal regulation for industrial hemp, medical and adult-use cannabis.
'War on drugs' policies contribute to the destruction of our planet, which is why environmentally sustainable regulation should be part of climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.
IDPC draws lessons from the challenges of tobacco control, including in relation to corporate capture, to inform the design of equitable, inclusive and sustainable cannabis legal regulation.