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Afghanistan remains the world’s largest producer of opium and has an under-reported but growing heroin-use problem. Current drug control policies in Afghanistan lack focus and are unrealistic, driven by headlines rather than evidence [Transnational Institute, Netherlands]
The drug law reform project, in which a number of Latin American judicial experts and legislators participate, aims to promote more humane, balanced, and effective drug laws [Transnational Institute, Netherlands]
This briefing summarizes good practices in legislative reforms around the world, representing steps away from a repressive zero-tolerance model towards a more evidence-based and humane drug policy [Transnational Institute, Netherlands]
On July 30th the Bolivian proposal to amend the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs by deleting the obligation to abolish the chewingof coca leaf was on the ECOSOC agenda (UN Social and Economic Council) [Transnational Institute, The Netherlands]
Experiences with alternatives in Europe and the US [Transnational Institute, The Netherlands]
This paper investigates whether cannabis use leads to worse mental health. To do so, we account for common unobserved factors a ecting mental health and cannabis consumption by modeling mental health jointly with the dynamics of cannabis use [Tilburg University, The Netherlands]
In March 2009, Evo Morales sent his formal request to the Secretary General Bang Ki Moon to delete articles 49© and 49(e) of the 1961 UN Single Convention that explicitly mention that “coca leaf chewing must be abolished with twenty-five years from the coming into force of this Convention” (which happened in December 1964) [Transnational Institute, Netherlands]
The committee calls for a number of key changes to Dutch drugs policy, and focuses on four key points: concern about drug use among young people (particularly the very young), a more restrictive approach to coffee shops, tougher measures against organised crime and the establishment of a drugs authority [Ministry of Health, Welfare an Sport, The Netherlands]
In the Kokang and Wa regions in northern Burma1 opium bans have ended over a century of poppy cultivation [Transnational Institute, The Netherlands]
