Time for Change
In 1998 the UN declared: “a drug-free world, we can do it!” In reality, we cannot.
The War on Drugs has failed. According to all available indices, it is no longer defendable. Vast expenditure on drug law enforcement has resulted in increasing levels of overall drug-use and lowered drug prices....
April 11th, 2011 | Drug Policy | Read More
Time for a New Convention?
War on drugs has failed, say former heads of MI5, CPS and BBC
The “war on drugs” has failed and should be abandoned in favour of evidence-based policies that treat addiction as a health problem, according to prominent public figures including former heads of MI5 and the Crown Prosecution...
March 28th, 2011 | Drug Policy | Read More
Can Dope give us Hope?
The ban on hallucinogens is holding back vital research into their medical benefits, says Jake Wallis Simons.
Last week, the news took on a decidedly trippy tinge. First, Professor David Nutt, sacked as an adviser to the Labour government for criticising its policy on drugs, sparked controversy...
December 14th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
‘Tame’ bears guard Canadian marijuana farm
Police raiding a marijuana farm in western Canada were astonished to find black bears apparently guarding it.
However initial alarm wore off when officers realised the 10 or so bears did not behave aggressively and were in fact docile and tame.
Police believe dog food was used to attract the animals...
August 25th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
Drugs That Shape Men’s Minds
Aldous Huxley’s acclaimed essay about man’s inclination towards intoxication and the potential for good and evil that drugs represent
In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country. The craving for ethyl...
August 4th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
Jobs, Taxes and Crime: Keys to California’s Pot Vote
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Inside City Hall in Oakland, Calif., Jim Wilcox explained his plan for a commercial marijuana farm. “My idea was a Silicon Valley of cannabis,” he told the city council recently. “An office park for pot.” The council has approved the creation, licensing...
July 28th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
(A Brief History and) Motivation of an Entheogenic Chemist
Abstract:
Casey Hardison was arrested spring 2004 for the production of psychedelic-type drugs, i.e., LSD, 2C- B and DMT. In the three years since, not one person from ‘authority’ had bothered to ask him what motivated him to synthesise psychedelic drugs. It was as if the a priori assumption that...
July 5th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
International drug crime measures ‘lead to executions’
Enforcement by Britain, the UN and the EU backs up regimes that ignore human rights, says report.
The United Nations, the European commission and individual states including Britain are flouting international human rights law by funding anti-drug crime measures that are inadvertently leading to the executions...
June 30th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
How Dudus stayed ahead of the Police
The fugitive whose supporters have reduced the Jamaican capital to a war zone used improvised bombs, closed-circuit TV and cross-dressing mercenaries to defend his stronghold, police said yesterday.
From The Times Online by James Bone
As the manhunt for Christopher “Dudus” Coke entered its third...
June 7th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition entangles local and international law
US request gives Jamaica’s prime minister chance to reclaim control of Tivoli and other lawless Kingston communities.
From The Guardian by Maxine Williams
Since August 2009, the extradition request for one man has spiralled Jamaica into a nightmare which has claimed dozens of lives, injured just...
June 3rd, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
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