WOLA discusses the coca market crisis in Colombia, exploring its many potential causes and urging authorities to seize the opportunity to provide aid, improved civilian governance and avenues for economic development.
The Paradigma Youth Coalition present their response to the 2023 World Drug Report, emphasising the importance of involving young people in shaping progressive drug policies with evidence-based approaches, inclusivity and harm reduction at their core.
The National Harm Reduction Coalition and Lighthouse Learning Collective interrogate the state of care for queer and trans people who use drugs and/or do sex work, recognising inadequacies and suggesting avenues to build power for communities and improve support by harm reduction organisations.
The IACHR highlights the role that drug policies play in soaring women incarceration rates in the region, calling for alternatives to incarceration and gender-specific reintegration policies.
INPUD present a best-practice toolkit, focused on key harm reduction interventions, based on interviews with twenty peer drug user activists and harm reduction specialists from a range of different countries.
Dennis et al. present a series of articles that employ the drug-user activist concept of 'narcofeminism', a collective movement for women who use drugs to mobilise, fight for their right to self-determination and to have their voices heard.
Hendy et al. examine the potential, and limitations, of existing social equity provisions in cannabis legislation, pointing to the importance of reparatory frameworks that address structural forms of social exclusion.
IDPC, Amnesty International, CDPE, HRI, DPA, Release and CELS provide evidence on the role of drug policies as a driver of discriminatory policing and incarceration.
IDPC and ICEERS argue that the right of Indigenous Peoples to grow, use, possess, heal, and travel with their ancestral plants should be enshrined as a part of a right to health free from racial discrimination.
Ali et al. scrutinise British Columbia's decriminalisation policy, urging policymakers to consult with people who use drugs in order to understand and minimise the potential harmful consequences of the 2.5g threshold.
Khair et al. demonstrate how supervised drug consumption sites not only save lives, but also offer notable cost savings when compared to the costs of managing overdoses through the use of emergency services.
IDPC welcomes the Board's increasing focus on human rights issues and cannabis regulation, whilst regretting its misrepresentation of the evidence on the latter, flawed interpretations of the relationship between human rights and drug control treaties, and a lack of constructive thinking on how to address the proliferation of systemic breaches in the global drug control regime.
