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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of August 8th 2011This week we lead with news that that Liberal Democrats are expected to call for an independent inquiry into the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 31st 2011
The WHO refers to hepatitis C (HCV) as a “viral time bomb” due to the remarkable toll in worldwide infections and...
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Published in: HomeChasing Amy: Prohibition and the Infantilization of Addiction
Amy Winehouse was a sick young woman in desperate need of healing. Instead, we treated her like a misbehaving child....
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 24th 2011
This report is dedicated to the memory of Amy Winehouse, who tragically passed away yesterday. As we mourn the loss...
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Published in: HomeMexican Caravan of Solace: a movement beginsA movement has begun in Mexico. United by the poet Javier Sicilia, victims of the misguided, corruption-fuelled war...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 18th 2011
This week we lead with the Committee for the Prevention of Torture's new Report on Poland - highlighting a serious...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 9th 2011
Portugal decriminalized all drugs 10 years ago and the results are in: decreased youth drug use, falling overdose...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Interview with The November Coalition
Founder Nora Callahan and her husband, activist and former prisoner Chuck Armsbury, talk about a lifetime spent...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 4th 2011
We lead this weeks Report with news that the Bolivian government has formally notified the UN Secretary General of...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project: Amy Ralston Povah (Pt. 2)
In Part II of her interview, Amy relays the horrors of her arrest and prosecution, the 9 years she spent in prison,...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 26th 2011
We lead this week with the release of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime 'World Drug Report', revealing a rise in...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe Human Cost of "War on Drugs"
50 years of criminalisation of drugs and 40 years of blatant failure of “war on drugs” has only made the problem...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 21st 2011
We lead this week with an excerpt from the documentary film, The Exile Nation Project - by our very own Charles...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Former Federal prisoner Amy Ralston Povah
In 1991 Amy Ralson Povah was sentenced to 24 years in Federal prison for a crime she did not commit. An incredible...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 12th 2011
The Wire has been described by many critics as the greatest television series ever made and it has been praised for...
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Published in: HomeHIV/AIDS at the UN: Battleground of the war on drugsNumerous campaigns have recently called for a fundamental rethink of global drugs policy and for the urgent scale up...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 4th 2011
With much attention focused this week on the landmark Global Commission Report, the Drug Policy Report takes a look...
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Published in: HomeDrug Policy Forum Special Report - The Global Commission on Drug Policy
On Thursday the Global Commission on Drug Policy released a groundbreaking report condemning the drug war as a...
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Published in: HomeDrugs, the Death Penalty and a Cautionary Tale for Governments
The harrowing struggle to spare a young Australian named Scott Rush from the firing squad in Indonesia appears to be...
