We lead this week with the release of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime 'World Drug Report', revealing a rise in consumption of synthetic and prescription drugs. In other news we reflect on the likely withdrawal of Bolivia from the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and travel with Al Jaz
In 1991 Amy Ralson Povah was sentenced to 24 years in Federal prison for a crime she did not commit. An incredible look inside the ruthless and craven nature of the DEA and US Department of Justice.
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
This week we lead with news that as tens of thousands of people in Mexico take to the streets to demand an end to the war on drugs, a coalition of nearly two dozen organizations in the United States have signed an open letter supporting the protesters’ calls for a new strategy ~ MW & CS
We lead this weeks report with news that at the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, one of the UN's key human rights experts will call for a fundamental rethink of international drug policy in a thematic report which will be the clearest statement to date from within the UN system
In this excerpt from his extended Exile Nation Project interview, Eric Sterling, former US Congressional lawyer and President of The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, talks about the racism inherent in American drug laws since their early inception in the 1800s.
We lead this week with news from Central America, where the arrival of big-time drug trafficking has had a lethal impact, taking lives and carrying a heavy economic cost. In other news, we explore Russia's archaic approach to methadone treatment; and reflect on the Portuguese experience of drug de
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
With the close of the 54th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna last week, we lead this weeks report with news of a new website which puts into perspective the true reality of the failed war on drugs, and catch up with the latest news from Vienna ~ MW & CS
