Items tagged with conventions
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| After blowing July 1 deadline, Canada seems likely to legalize pot while ignoring UN treaties [19.07.2017] | Since a July 1 deadline to start withdrawing from international narcotics treaties has passed, the federal government is left with fewer, and much mo ... |
| Uruguay sets path for Canada on marijuana legalization within international treaties [06.06.2017] | Uruguay‘s envoy to Ottawa says his small South American country has opened up some breathing room for marijuana legalization within international tre ... |
| Ottawa urged to withdraw from UN drug treaties ahead of pot legalization [02.06.2017] | Opposition parties and international legal experts are calling on Ottawa to say what it plans to do about three UN drug treaties that pose a conundru ... |
| Drug Control and Human Rights [01.06.2017] | The Health and Human Rights Journal published a special section on Drug Control and Human Rights. This special section examines some of the many ways ... |
| Ganja lobby wrong [15.05.2017] | The Ministry of Health (MoH) of Jamaica has indicated that it has begun taking steps to change the schedule class of marijuana to effect amendments t ... |
| The Case for International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Control [08.03.2017] | The international drug control treaties contribute directly to an environment of human rights risk and violations. The drug treaties are what are kno ... |
| A New International Legal Regime for a New Reality in the War Against Drugs [26.01.2017] | After twenty-three years under the latest international agreement, drug consumption has risen, production has increased, and some states remain helpl ... |
| Seiveright urges ganja farmers to look beyond ‘so so weed’ [19.01.2017] | Delano Seiveright, a director of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), says that ganja growers should look beyond farming “so so weed” in seeking t ... |
| Cannabis and Cannabis Resin [13.10.2016] | The scheduling under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs assumes a scientific justification. However, cannabis and cannabis resin have never been ... |
| Canada faces choice on international drug treaties over legalized pot [02.10.2016] | As Canada moves forward with its plan to legalize marijuana, government officials have at least one international conundrum to sort out: what to do a ... |
| The United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem [31.08.2016] | In October 2012, the governments of Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico issued a joint declaration calling for a UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGA ... |
| Dr Gandhi to move Bill to legalise recreational drugs [12.07.2016] | Patiala MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi said that he was working on an amendment to Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS) Act 1985 of India to leg ... |
| UNGASS 2016: A Broken or B-r-o-a-d Consensus? [05.07.2016] | A special session of the General Assembly took place in April revealing a growing divergence in the global drug policy landscape. Difficult negotiati ... |
| Cannabis Regulation and the UN Drug Treaties [16.06.2016] | As jurisdictions enact reforms creating legal access to cannabis for purposes other than exclusively “medical and scientific,” tensions surrounding t ... |
| New Report Offers Strategies for Regulating Cannabis in Ways that Uphold and Modernize International Law [16.06.2016] | As an increasing number of jurisdictions consider whether and how to legalize and regulate access to cannabis, tensions are growing between these ini ... |
| Legal cannabis cultivation would cut violent crime: report [30.05.2016] | Legalizing cannabis cultivation and trade could reduce violent crime related to illegal cultivation and could therefore protect human rights, accordi ... |
| Canada's marijuana legalization plan flouts 3 UN drug conventions [16.05.2016] | The federal government's plan to legalize marijuana contravenes Canada's adherence to the UN drug control conventions, according to a commentary in t ... |
| Rethinking the global war on drugs [25.04.2016] | The U.S. is in the untenable position of violating the existing treaties — now that four states have legalized the sale of recreational marijuana. Th ... |
| TNI at UNGASS 2016: reports from New York [20.04.2016] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) attended the 30th session of the UN General Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem in New York from the ... |
| Cannabis and the Conventions: UNGASS and Beyond [19.04.2016] | With an increasing number of jurisdictions enacting or contemplating reforms creating legal access to cannabis for purposes other than exclusively "m ... |
| Weed and the UN: Why international drug laws won't stop legalization [19.04.2016] | Under the outcome document for UNGASS that was drafted by diplomats in Vienna and formally adopted at UN headquarters in New York, weed still remains ... |
| Trouble in Europe's pot paradise [18.04.2016] | Though the Dutch have struck a compromise with international treaties that shows great results for reducing harm for drug users, the approach has lar ... |
| Cannabis Science and Policy Summit 2016 [16.04.2016] | With California and other states likely to vote on full cannabis legalization, decisions made in 2016 may well shape the future of cannabis policy fo ... |
| Canada on drugs at the UN: Standing up for a long-overdue policy shift [12.04.2016] | The applause persisted until the chair of the session eventually gavelled it to an end. The occasion? Canada’s statement at the UN Commission on Narc ... |
| The UN’s war on drugs is a failure [02.04.2016] | A policy of prohibition has put the drugs trade in the hands of criminals and led to suffering for millions. 2008 was the year that the world didn’t ... |
| Five former presidents demand an end to the war on drugs [23.03.2016] | As the drug war has rumbled on, with little to show for all the money and violence, its critics have become a more diverse. The latest broadside agai ... |
| Will UNGASS 2016 be the beginning of the end for the ‘war on drugs’? [16.03.2016] | In April 2016, the UN will dedicate, for the third time in its history, a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) to discuss global ... |
| Striving for system-wide coherence [11.03.2016] | In April 2016, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) will convene its 30th Special Session (or ‘UNGASS’) – and the third to focus on the ‘w ... |
| Top US international drug official signals green light for countries to decriminalize [09.03.2016] | William Brownfield, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, gave a qualified go-ahead for countries to ... |
| The history of cannabis and international control [02.03.2016] | This timeline draws on The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition, a report that described the history of international control, how cannabis was i ... |
| UNGASS 2016: Prospects for Treaty Reform and UN System-Wide Coherence on Drug Policy [29.02.2016] | This paper explores key lessons from the 1990 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Drug Abuse (UNGASS 1990) and the 1998 Special ... |
| The Heemskerk Declaration [20.01.2016] | In a global meeting small scale farmers of cannabis, coca and opium from 14 countries in Heemskerk, the Netherlands, discussed their contribution to ... |
| Legalizing pot in Canada will run afoul of global treaties, Trudeau warned [04.01.2016] | The Liberal government will have to do substantial work on the international stage before it can follow through on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pr ... |
| Ayahuasca: From the Amazon to the Global Village [14.12.2015] | Indigenous peoples in the Amazon have used ayahuasca for centuries as a remedy for physical and psychological health, and to ensure the life and well ... |
| Govt urged to secure share of international ganja market [15.11.2015] | President of the Westmoreland Hemp and Ganja Farmers Association Ras Iyah is urging the Government of Jamaica to "align" with other countries to secu ... |
| Oregon marijuana legalization challenges US drug policy [02.10.2015] | Oregon joined Colorado and Washington in implementing a commercial cannabis market. Alaska, which also legalized marijuana through a ballot initiativ ... |
| World drug problem violates human rights in five key areas, says UN official [27.09.2015] | The global drug problem violates human rights in five key areas – the right to health, the rights relating to criminal justice and discrimination, th ... |
| The White House blacklisted Bolivia for growing coca while US states sell legal weed [15.09.2015] | The US has "decertified" Bolivia over what it calls a failure to comply with the UN drug control conventions, despite recent data showing the country ... |
| Decriminalise cannabis; consider its commercial benefits - Akrasi-Sarpong [28.07.2015] | Yaw Akrasi-Sarpong, Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board, called for an open debate with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), to join in ... |
| IDPC recommendations for the "ZERO DRAFT" of the UNGASS outcome document [22.07.2015] | Preparations are gathering pace for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs, to be held on the 19th to 21st April 2016 ... |
| International Law and Drug Policy Reform [03.07.2015] | Drug policy reform is currently higher on the international agenda than it has been in recent memory. With a United Nations General Assembly Special ... |
| The 2015 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [14.06.2015] | The international drug control regime is facing the most profound challenge of its existence. Member states have for some time been experimenting wit ... |
| Lib Dem leadership candidate Norman Lamb calls for cannabis legalisation [31.05.2015] | The Liberal Democrat leadership candidate Norman Lamb has called for the UK to legalise, regulate and tax the sale of cannabis. The former care minis ... |
| The new drug warriors [01.05.2015] | The war on drugs is edging towards a truce. Half of Americans want to lift the ban on cannabis. America’s change of heart has led many to wonder if t ... |
| UNGASS 2016: Prospects for Treaty Reform and UN System-Wide Coherence on Drug Policy [28.04.2015] | This paper explores key lessons from the 1990 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Drug Abuse (UNGASS 1990) and the 1998 Special ... |
| 2016: The UN's year to take on drugs [26.04.2015] | Global disagreement over drug policies provides an important opportunity to reconsider the effectiveness of existing counternarcotics policies, addre ... |
| The Road to UNGASS 2016 [14.04.2015] | On 19th to 21st April 2016, there will be a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) held in New York, dedicated to the issue of drug ... |
| Jamaica to lead charge to change int'l treaties on marijuana [17.03.2015] | Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Anthony Hylton, says Jamaica intends to lead a charge in the United Nations to effect changes to the i ... |
| The UN’s prohibitionism impedes drug policy reform [16.03.2015] | The U.N. commission on drugs insists that the ultimate goal of its prohibitionist drug policy is to ensure “the mental and physical health and welfar ... |
| TNI calls for a wide-ranging and open debate that considers all options at UNGASS 2016 [11.03.2015] | Just over one year away from the 2016 UNGASS, denying the reality that the drug policy landscape has fundamentally changed and that tensions with the ... |
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