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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: oDRA drug addict in free fall: another reckoning
For many years Irina Teplinskaya has been campaigning for replacement therapy to be available to drug addicts in...
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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...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of August 8th 2011
This 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 begins
A 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...