Dejusticia, Elementa and IDPC denounce plans to resume the use of hazardous herbicides in eradication efforts due to serious risks to rights, environment and communities' livelihoods.
Potter et al.'s findings challenge stereotypes of cannabis growers, finding that small-scale cultivation is increasingly widespread, socially embedded, and largely disconnected from profit-driven drug markets and serious criminal activity.
After more than three decades at the forefront of drug policy reform, Martin Jelsma retires from TNI, leaving an extraordinary legacy of advancing human rights, social justice and more humane approaches to drugs.
Opium poppy cultivation shows expansion across Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, as economic pressures, changing practices and prohibition reshape markets.
TNI explores viable ways to safeguard the genetic resources, cultural heritage and Indigenous knowledge of the coca leaf, as well as to protect legal markets from risks of misappropriation, biopiracy and corporate capture.
Legal cannabis cultivation provides farmers with stability and income, but restrictive regulations and the profitability of the black market enable illicit growing to persist.
By recommending that coca remain in the most restrictive category, the WHO has reinforced a decades-old, colonial classification that undermines scientific research and Indigenous rights.
The Human Rights Council’s latest resolution on drug policy marks a turning point, reaffirming that drug control is a human-rights issue, and calling for person-centred, inclusive, and accountable approaches.
Explicit recognition of widespread public health harms of repressive control efforts could positively influence expert recommendation on the schedule of the coca leaf.
