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Items tagged with european drug policy

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Possession of cannabis for personal use [01-01-20] The legal status of cannabis for personal use is one of the most controversial policy issues in the European Union. Although cannabis is a classifie...
European Union discussion on response to Bolivia's denunciation of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [28-11-12] The following notes are summaries of the EU Horizontal Working Party on Drugs discussions about Bolivia’s coca amendment and denunciation of the 1961...
Prevalence of daily cannabis use in the European Union and Norway [15-11-12] This report brings together, for the first time in Europe, an integrated overview of the prevalence of intensive cannabis use, defined as daily or a...
Modernising the global drug control system – Can Europe lead? [29-05-12] The seminar entitled “Modernising the global drug control system – Can Europe lead?” was organised in the European Parliament by the International D...
European Drug Policy at Crossroads [19-01-12] In recent years of global debate on policies and strategies on controlled drugs, the European institutions (European Commission and Council, and the E...
Towards a stronger European response to drugs [25-10-11] With the Lisbon Treaty now in place, the European response to drugs needs to be strong and decisive, addressing both drug demand and drug supply. New ...
Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15-03-09] This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 20...
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Study: The ‘gateway drug’ is alcohol, not marijuana

A study in the August edition of The Journal of School Health finds that the generations old theory of a “gateway drug” effect is in fact accurate for some drug users, but shifts the blame for those addicts’ escalating substance abuse away from marijuana and onto the most pervasive and socially accepted drug in American life: alcohol.

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