President-elect Donald Trump has been vociferous about the negative effects of legalisation but also said that recreational and medical marijuana should be legislated at the state level.
The city of Warsaw is to implement a two-year program to reform city drug policy and the Polish Drug Policy Network will take further actions to encourage the EU to develop a common drug strategy for use at local level.
Overnight the number of American citizens with access to legal, regulated, recreational weed rose by over 50 million to just under 70 million people but a Trump presidency could potentially have put it all at risk.
Although the Action Plan facilitates the availability of evidence-based treatment options, calls for the implementation of harm reduction programs, and the collation of epidemiological data, key issues remain to be addressed.
President Joko Widodo thinks Indonesians will change their minds on execution laws as citizens in Europe had done in the past. "We are very open to options" he said.
By expanding the role of the military in drug control policy Argentina is failing to learn the lessons from its neighbours, running the risk of motivating extra-judicial killings and human rights abuses without reducing crime levels.
The conference favoured the exchange of information and the strengthening of networks between activists, civil servants and representatives from international organisations.
From Indonesia to Canada, open letters are sent to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte asking him to change his approach to a more constructive, evidence-based one that addresses the root causes of drug use
Although people who use intravenous drugs are at a higher risk than other people who use drugs, harm reduction advocates say that supervised drug sites should cater for all users.
