Items tagged with conventions
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The ketamine controversy, continued [06.03.2015] | The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna will decide next week between two opposite proposals by China and the WHO about international contro ... |
UN drugs body warns US states and Uruguay over cannabis legalisation [03.03.2015] | The United Nations has renewed its warnings to Uruguay and the US states of Colorado and Washington that their cannabis legalisation policies fail to ... |
Despite U.N. treaties, war against drugs a losing battle [25.02.2015] | As the call for the decriminalisation of drugs steadily picks up steam worldwide, a new study by the London-based charity Health Poverty Action concl ... |
Reguleer wiet, en niet alleen de achterdeur [25.02.2015] | De advocaten Spong, Smeets en Vis houden een pleidooi voor het reguleren van de achterdeur van de coffeeshops in een opiniestuk in het NRC. Zij zette ... |
CND decision to schedule ketamine would undermine WHO treaty mandate [16.02.2015] | The 58th Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in March 2015 has been asked to consider a Chinese proposal to place ketamine – an esse ... |
US official cautions Jamaica on ganja legalisation [29.01.2015] | The U.S. Government has signalled discomfort with Jamaica's move to decriminalise marijuana for specific uses. According to assistant secretary, Will ... |
Illegal drugs laws: Clearing a 50-year-old obstacle to research [26.01.2015] | The United Nations drug control conventions of 1960 and 1971 and later additions have inadvertently resulted in perhaps the greatest restrictions of ... |
Has the US just called for unilateral interpretation of multilateral obligations? [17.12.2014] | These are interesting times for drug law reform, which, as it gathers pace, is asking important questions of international law. A UN General Assembly ... |
Drug control body concerned by pot legalization in some U.S. states [03.12.2014] | The head of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) monitoring compliance with international drug control conventions expressed concern abou ... |
«Das Cannabis-Verbot bringt nichts» [01.12.2014] | In Deutschland hat der Schildowerkreis, eine Vereinigung von mehr als 100 Strafrechtsprofessorinnen und Strafrechtsprofessoren, vor zwei Wochen das V ... |
The 'Fifth Stage' of Drug Control [30.11.2014] | Writing in 1996, Norbert Gilmore noted that ‘little has been written about drug use and human rights. Human rights are rarely mentioned expressly in ... |
Into the breach: Drugs, control, and violating bad laws in good ways [27.11.2014] | An October statement on drug control from the US State Department has prompted much comment and speculation at home and abroad. Delivered by Ambassad ... |
Fatal attraction: Brownfield's flexibility doctrine and global drug policy reform [18.11.2014] | State-level cannabis reforms, which gathered steam this month, have exposed the inability of the United States to abide by the terms of the legal bed ... |
The UN really wishes that voters in Alaska and Oregon hadn’t legalized weed [13.11.2014] | The director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Yury Fedotov, said that state-level marijuana legalization initiatives in the U.S. are ... |
A top UN official is not happy about US states legalizing weed [13.11.2014] | The UN's top narcotics official said on Wednesday that recent votes by US states to legalize marijuana have put America in deeper violation of the in ... |
U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [12.11.2014] | Moves by some U.S. states to legalize marijuana are not in line with international drugs conventions, the U.N. anti-narcotics chief said, adding he w ... |
Pushing treaty limits? [19.10.2014] | Suppose the United States government helps to negotiate, and subsequently champions, certain framework treaties – ones justly viewed as imposing sign ... |
How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is making the world a better place [16.10.2014] | No pressure, Colorado and Washington, but the world is scrutinizing your every move. That was the take-home message of an event today at the Brooking ... |
Marijuana legalization is an opportunity to modernize international drug treaties [14.10.2014] | Two U.S. states have legalized recreational marijuana, and more may follow; the Obama administration has conditionally accepted these experiments. Su ... |
State Department official calls for 'flexibility' on drug control treaties [13.10.2014] | Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield called for "flexible" interpretations of international drug control treaties at the United Nations in ... |
US signals shift in international drug policy [12.10.2014] | In a press conference at the United Nations in New York on October 9, US official William Brownfield laid the groundwork for a new US approach to int ... |
The Guardian view on overdue overhauling of US and global drug laws [27.07.2014] | The war on drugs has been a losing fight for 40 years. The response to unending failure has always been to demand more law enforcement and more priso ... |
La légalisation du cannabis est inévitable selon un expert en politique des drogues [24.07.2014] | La légalisation du cannabis fait peu à peu son chemin dans le monde, suscitant un débat politique qui dure depuis l'an dernier au Maroc. Après que l’ ... |
Reforming the global drug-control system: The stakes for Washington [27.06.2014] | The extent to which the ongoing drug-control reforms across the Americas are pushing the boundaries of the global legal framework laid down in three ... |
Scheduling in the international drug control system [13.06.2014] | While often viewed as an obscure technical issue, the problem of scheduling lies at the core of the functioning of the international drug control sys ... |
Global drug policy is still deadly and ineffective [02.06.2014] | If you actually read the treaties, while they do set firm limitations on the legal, "non-medical" or "non-scientific" sale of schedule drugs — limits ... |
Going to pot: legalised cannabis edges nearer in west after US states end ban [22.05.2014] | Legalisation of cannabis is making slow but unstoppable progress across much of the developed world, many experts believe, following the end of prohi ... |
Internationaal recht en cannabis [14.05.2014] | Voor het rondetafelgesprek over het rapport: ‘Internationaal recht en cannabis’ op 15 mei 2014 voor de Vaste Commissie voor Veiligheid en Justitie in ... |
Uruguay not a ‘pirate’ [17.04.2014] | The Uruguayan government has made a controversial move to regulate the production and sale of cannabis, believing that this will help in the fight ag ... |
The Transnational Institute interviewed by The Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum [20.03.2014] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) released a new report this month called The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition’. This report will be presente ... |
New report: UN stuck in denial over cannabis regulation [10.03.2014] | The current trend towards legal regulation of the cannabis market has become irreversible and requires an urgent dialogue by UN member states on the ... |
The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition [10.03.2014] | The cannabis plant has been used for spiritual, medicinal and recreational purposes since the early days of civilization. In this report the Transnat ... |
INCB speaks out against death penalty [05.03.2014] | UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) unprecedented condemnation of the use of death penalty for drug-related offences is welcome if long ... |
Time for UN to open up dialogue on drug policy reform and end counter-productive blame-game [03.03.2014] | As the UN International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) launches its annual report on Tuesday, 4 March, amidst an unprecedented crisis in the internat ... |
Are the three drug conventions still the cornerstone of the world drug control system? [20.01.2014] | UN member states are currently in the process of hammering out a ‘Joint Ministerial Statement’ for the upcoming High Level Review of the world drug r ... |
INCB vs Uruguay: the art of diplomacy [17.12.2013] | International tensions over Uruguay’s decision to regulate the cannabis market reached new levels when Raymond Yans, president of the International N ... |
'Stop lying': Uruguay president chides UN official over marijuana law [14.12.2013] | Uruguay’s president has accused the head of the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, of lying and double standards, after ... |
Uruguay's Prez rips into UN official over marijuana law: 'Stop lying' [12.12.2013] | Uruguay's President Mujica shot back at the president of the International Narcotics Control Board, a U.N. agency, for saying that his administration ... |
The US incapacity to enforce federal drug laws - and the global consequences [31.10.2013] | The US drug policy is changing, pitting states against federal law. This essay explores this inner friction of contradictory drug legislation, and wh ... |
Expert Seminar: Costs and benefits of cannabis regulation models in Europe [30.10.2013] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) organized an expert seminar on Costs and Benefits of Cannabis Regulation Models in Europe in Amsterdam, The Netherl ... |
Human rights and drug control: an irreconcilable contradiction? [15.10.2013] | This week both the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna and the UN General Assembly 3rd Committee in New York discuss new drug control res ... |
Coca leaf: A Political Dilemma [07.10.2013] | For fifty years the World’s attitude to and treatment of the coca leaf and coca farmers has been controlled by the UN Drugs Conventions beginning wit ... |
The 2013 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [31.05.2013] | Reflections upon this year’s CND are mixed. On the one hand, some states went further than ever before in openly challenging the current regime on th ... |
The drug policy reform agenda in the Americas [30.04.2013] | Latin America has emerged at the vanguard of efforts to promote debate on drug policy reform. For decades, Latin American governments largely followe ... |
Drug policy must return to focus on public health, SPP panelists say [11.04.2013] | Global drug policy must move away from stigmatizing and criminalizing users and focus on the public health issues at stake, panelists concluded at th ... |
De wankele 'Weense consensus' over drugsbeleid [31.03.2013] | ??Nederland is met zijn drugsbeleid in de achterhoede terecht gekomen, zo stelt Martin Jelsma. Zo zijn Uruguay en de Amerikaanse staten Washington en ... |
Life after cannabis prohibition: The city announces its ambitions [15.03.2013] | The tide is turning against the criminalisation of cannabis. Copenhagen wants to join the movement with a three-year trial to decriminalise the drug. ... |
Cannabis and the 1961 Convention [12.03.2013] | Over the past years, there have been some soft and hard defections on cannabis control. It is now time to discuss alternatives that are based on fact ... |
Ex-DEA heads, U.N. panel urge feds to nullify Wash., Colo. pot laws [05.03.2013] | Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs warned the federal government that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new l ... |
Guatemala proposes "alternative strategies for combating drugs" [24.02.2013] | The Secretary General of the OAS highlighted the assignment received during the Sixth Summit of the Americas in 2012, which urged the OAS to analyze ... |
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