Stop and search may be decreasing in England and Wales, but those carried out for drugs are on the rise as a proportion of the overall figure. Can the police still reasonably say this power is being used to tackle violent crime?
Federal drug control efforts have failed to meet any goals to curb illegal drug use and related deaths set five years ago, new testimony from the Government Accountability Office concludes.
It has emerged that changes to police protocol in Scotland will mean people caught with small quantities of cannabis will face on-the-spot warnings from police rather than prosecution.
A submission from the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Dainius Pūras, has delivered a devastating critique of the drug war and UN processes surrounding the issue.
Unlike other countries from the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia is experimenting with drug policy in order to improve the public health response to drug use.
The WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence met on 16th November at the occasion of its 37th Session. The agenda included discussions around ketamine and medical cannabis.
In December 2015 the Commission on Narcotic Drugs will meet in Vienna to discuss changes to the scope of control of substances and whether or not ketamine should be restricted internationally.
The Turnbull government has announced the creation of a nationally consistent licencing scheme to regulate the controlled cultivation of cannabis for medicinal or scientific purposes.
Cannabis legalisation has finally been adopted in various states and nations but there is an important balance to strike between the urgency of implementing reforms and the risks of moving too hastily.