Ketamine is often perceived as a novelty drug which seems to have emerged out of nowhere with a catastrophic set of health and social consequences. Instead of repeating the mistake of further criminalising its users, the Government is urged to take a more enlightened approach to the growing ketami
While activists push for reform of drug laws, various legislative entities continue to tighten restrictions on the use of psychoactive substances, from marijuana to "bath salts". One state in the US moves closer to drug-testing not only its welfare recipients, but its lawmakers as well. Mexico's c
We lead this week with news that former Mexican President Vicente Fox suggested on Friday that Mexican authorities consider calling on drug cartels for a truce and offering them amnesty, speaking out a day after an apparent cartel attack on a casino killed 52 people ~ MW
The Wire has been described by many critics as the greatest television series ever made and it has been praised for its realistic portrayal of urban life - especially the war on drugs. We lead this week’s Drug Policy Report with an excellent HCLU interview by Peter Sarosi with Sonja Sohn, who play
Numerous campaigns have recently called for a fundamental rethink of global drugs policy and for the urgent scale up of HIV prevention for people who inject drugs. Harm Reduction International’s Damon Barrett is of the view that the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS will show just how far from reasone
We lead this weeks report with a message from the Drug Policy Alliance's Executive Director, Ethan Nadelmann, on the correlation between America's 40th anniversary of the war on drugs and prohibition related violence in Mexico. Ethan also discusses President Obama and recent U.S. medical marijuana
We lead this week with a report from the University of Kent Psychedelic Society's multidisciplinary conference on psychedelic consciousness, 'Breaking Convention' which discusses MDMA, LSD, psylocybin, ayahuasca, psychotherapy, neuroscience, evolution and consciousness. In other news we look at th
We lead this week with the disturbing news that Dimitri Mobengo Mugianis, a dear friend and colleague, was set up by the DEA and arrested in Seattle for providing ibogaine treatments to chronic addicts. It is my belief that the DEA has been planning this for some time, and intend to "make an examp
We lead this week with news of the impending meeting between UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, and Russian President Medvedev. We hope that recent positive emphasis at the UNODC on harm reduction, substitution therapy and human rights translates here into meaningful dialogue base
