Regulatory plans contemplate two phases, initially focusing on growers' cooperatives and home-growing, then expanding to supply pilots via licenced premises in a number of cities.
The OHCHR condemned the imminent execution of Tangaraju Suppiah, whose case was mired in procedural flaws and in violation of international human rights law.
The Philippines' brutal war on drugs has not deterred harm reduction advocates from implementing life-saving measures such as syringe exchanges and methadone treatment.
Overseeing pioneering work in peer-led research and substantial improvements to service provision, David Liddell reflects on some of the challenges still facing drug services in Scotland.
The VNGOC wants to hear from members and other interested civil society organisations how they envision meaningful civil society engagement with the Vienna-based agencies involved in setting drug policy.
Japan is alone among G7 nations in maintaining a highly punitive approach to drug use that perpetuates harm, stigma and suffering, while at the same time proclaiming adherence to a ‘rules-based international order’ where human rights abuses are condemned.
In the absence of a clear legal framework to regulate supply, Thailand has witnessed a deluge of cannabis smuggled in from abroad, driving down wholesale prices and hurting growers.
A heroin drought would create fertile ground for the proliferation of riskier synthetic opioids, which adds to the value of investing in a regulated safe supply for all who need it.
At this year's CND, Ghana's recent drug policy reforms set an important precedent of how approaches to drug policy led by health and human rights priorities can prevail over the failed 'war on drugs' approach.
Singapore's new highly punitive legislative framework, designed to tackle new psychoactive substances, sees the maximum jail sentence for drug possession increase to 30 years, three times the previous maximum.
