Adapting the UN drug control system to modern realities is long overdue, and if the Board wants to protect the useful elements of the current system, the only option is to facilitate change, through honest discussion and valid guidance.
By Alina Polianskaya,
Zimbabwe has made it legal to produce marijuana for medicinal and scientific uses.
It follows in the footsteps of Lesotho, the tiny nation which last year became the first in Africa to issue a license for medical marijuana.
Zimbabwe has been considering legalising the drug for a number of months, and will now become one of the few countries able to turn it into a source of revenue.
It is now possible to request a license to grow marijuana, according to a recently issued government notice that was released by the country's health minister. Both individuals and companies can apply.
An inter se agreement appears as a pragmatic solution to address Treaty frictions with domestic legislation on the legal regulation of controlled substances.
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP), one of the UK’s largest and most influential medical bodies, has expressed its formal support for the findings and recommendations of RSPH’s landmark drug policy report, Taking a New Line on Drugs. Among other recommendations, the report exhorts the government to stop criminalising people for their drug use.
