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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 24th 2011
While governments around the globe debate on which direction to go in revising drug policy, the American military...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Interview with Stephen Dubov
In 1987 college professor and successful San Francisco sculptor Stephen Dubov was sentenced in US Federal court to...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 16th 2011
On behalf of Charles Shaw and myself, I'd like to welcome you to the latest installment of the Drug Policy Forum. We...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Interview with Sanho Tree
In this fascinating and detailed interview the Institute for Policy Studies' Sanho Tree gives us the history of the...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Interview with Judge Jim Gray
In 1992 Judge James P. Gray of the California Superior Court was the first sitting judge to come out against the War...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Interview with Mark Kleiman, Ph.D
The outspoken and controversial author, UCLA Professor and former Justice Department official gives his take on the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow drug legalisation could save Britain's economy
Legalising drugs in the UK could help solve the economic crisis while decreasing addiction. Why isn't the policy...
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Published in: HomeA Glimpse of the World after the War on Drugs
Report and videos from the recent openDemocracy symposium, "After the War on Drugs: Envisioning a Post-Prohibition World."
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of October 2nd 2011
Following the successful openDemocracy Conference, ‘After the War on Drugs: Envisioning a Post-Prohibition World’;...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of September 21st 2011
We lead this weeks Drug Policy Report with encouraging news that theLiberal Democrats have voted to establish a...
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Published in: HomeThe Death Penalty for Drugs – ‘Shared Responsibility and Shared Consequences’
For those governments that think the death penalty for drugs is none of their business - think again. Even though...
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Published in: HomeopenDemocracy Event: 'After the War on Drugs: Envisioning a Post Prohibition World'
openDemocracy and Know Drugs are delighted to invite you to join us for a two-day conference on drug and criminal...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of September 11th 2011
We lead this week with an article by Damon Barrett, who argues that drugs and the drug trade are presented in...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of September 3rd 2011
We lead this week with a look at a new Open Society report assessing the Portuguese government's rejection of the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of August 29th 2011
We lead this week with news that former Mexican President Vicente Fox suggested on Friday that Mexican authorities...
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Published in: HomeopenDemocracy Event: 'After the War on Drugs: Envisioning a Post Prohibition World'
openDemocracy and Know Drugs are delighted to invite you to join us for a two-day conference on drug and criminal...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of August 21st 2011
This week we lead with the alarming news that Irina Teplinskaya, friend of the openDemocracy Drug Policy Forum and...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Interview with Julie Holland, M.D.
A frank and honest conversation with one of America's leading drug policy experts and the author of the best-selling...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of August 14th 2011
With a startling 400% rise in the number of women incarcerated for federal crimes in Mexico since 2007, we lead this...
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Published in: HomeInternational security and the global war on drugs: The tragic irony of drug securitisation
In the first part of two special editions of the Drug Policy Forum, guest writer Danny Kushlick (founder of the...