AMA Victoria's president Stephen Parnis declared that drug consumption rooms would save lives by reducing the number of drug overdoses and cut the number of ambulance call-outs and hospital admissions.
In Budapest, there only remain two or three weeks' reserves of sterile needles and syringes to provide to intravenous drug users, which could have devastating consequences on their health, as is explained in this new video from HCLU.
In this declaration, the governments of Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico call on the UN to urgently address the impact of criminal activities on development, security and democracy.
Switzerland is on the verge of decriminalizing the possession of up to 10 grams of marijuana after the lower house of parliament last Thursday agreed to align itself with the Senate's version of the legislation
During the meeting of the ASEAN Senior Officials on Drug Matters, IDPC highlighted key drug policy reform movements taking place around the world to inform the review of the ASEAN Drug Strategy.
President Juan Manuel Santos has given the go-ahead to Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro's plan to prescribe otherwise illicit drugs to addicts in the Colombian capital
Transform has appointed Lisa Sánchez as its first Latin American Programme Manager to work with policymakers, groups and experts in Mexico and the region, using MUCD’s on-the-ground experience in Mexico and Transform’s groundbreaking resources and 15 years of experience advocating for the legal regulation of drugs.
"Prison for a joint? The effects of Polish drug law enforcement” was the theme of a recent conference in Warsaw, organized by national politicians and civil rights organizations. The event was held as a lead-up to several progressive legislative amendments planned in drug policy areas.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who leaves office on December 1 after spending much of his presidency locked in a bloody battle with drug-smuggling gangs, called on the United Nations to lead a global debate over a less "prohibitionist" approach to drugs.
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Prisoners with PASAN, CATIE, the CAAN and Steven Simons, a former federal prisoner, launched a lawsuit against the Government of Canada over its failure to protect the health of people in prison through its ongoing refusal to implement clean needle and syringe programs to prevent the spread of HIV and hepatitis C virus in federal institutions.
Applicants for the NUFFIC scholarship should submit their application by October 1, 2012, and then submit a separate application to the Dutch Summer Institute.
The lack of transparency about how U.S. officials calculate cocaine production estimates, combined with the contention that Bolivia is producing more cocaine than Colombia—despite having far less land under coca cultivation than Colombia or Peru— undermines U.S. credibility and isolates Washington from a region calling for an open debate on drug policy alternatives.