This briefing gives an overview of recent developments in Europe exploring legal regulation of the cannabis market as a more promising model for protecting people’s health and safety.
This briefing paper reviews the efforts conducted in the USA to adopt a less repressive, more proportionate, and more effective approach towards drug offenders.
Based on accumulated evidence and data on non-medical use, diversion and trafficking, and evidence of ketamine’s therapeutic value, there are serious concerns around placing the substance under international control.
This report analyses the effects of complicity of organised crime cells and public authorities in Mexico, where corruption and impunity are rife and civil society suffers the most.
Women who use drugs are heavily stigmatised, as well as being frequently ignored, invisiblised, and sidelined in the formation of policy and approaches to harm reduction and service provision.
This publication explores how the growth of the cannabis social clubs model in Spain demonstrates that cannabis legalisation does not necessarily lead to commercialisation.
Since the first retail marijuana stores opened on January 1st, 2014, the state of Colorado has benefited from a decrease in crime rates and traffic fatalities, and an increase in tax revenues.
This report by the Uganda Harm Reduction Network discusses the impact of the HIV prevention and control act 2014 among people who use drugs and is working to identify and prioritize key interventions to reduce its negative effects in Uganda.
