Es cada vez mayor el consenso respecto a que la prohibición de la producción, oferta y uso de ciertas drogas no sólo no ha cumplido con las metas previstas, sino que ha sido contraproducente. Hay más evidencias de que esta política no sólo ha exacerbado muchos problemas de salud pública, sino que ha creado un conjunto mucho mayor  de daños sociales asociados con el mercado ilegal, como violencia, corrupción, crimen organizado y una violencia endémica relacionada con el mercado de las drogas.

  • Breaking the Silence

    Cannabis prohibition, organized crime and gang violence in British Columbia
    Report prepared by the Stop the Violence BC Coalition
    October 2011

    This brief report outlines the links between cannabis prohibition in British Columbia (Canada) and the growth of organized crime and related violence in the province, and is the first report of a coalition of concerned citizens and experts known as Stop the Violence BC. The report also defines the public health concept “regulation” and seeks to set the stage for a much needed public conversation and action on the part of BC politicians.

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  • Taking Drugs Seriously

    A Demos and UK Drug Policy Commission report on legal highs
    Jonathan Birdwell, Jake Chapman & Nicola Singleton
    Demos
    May 2011

    Since first coming to public prominence at the end of 2009, legal highs have posed a major challenge to existing legal and legislative structures designed to deal with drugs. With the market in manufactured psychoactive substances like mephedrone moving faster than public policy can accommodate, this report asks whether the assumptions enshrined in the 40-year-old Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA) are still valid when applied 21st century drugs market.

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  • Controlling and Regulating Drugs

    A Review of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975.
    New Zealand Law Commission
    April 2011

    The New Zealand Law Commission was asked to address the efficacy of the Misuse of Drugs Act in reducing the demand for, and supply of, drugs prohibited under the International Drug Conventions. The Commission has recommended the existing Act be repealed and replaced by a new Act administered by the Ministry of Health. Justice Hammond said the thrust of the proposed new Act is to facilitate a more effective interface between the criminal justice and health sectors: “We need to recognise that the abuse of drugs is both a health and a criminal public policy problem.”

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  • Los Clubes Sociales de Cannabis en España

    Una alternativa normalizadora en marcha
    Martín Barriuso Alonso
    Serie reforma legislativa en materia de drogas no. 9
    Enero de 2011

    Los Clubes Sociales de Cannabis (CSC) son asociaciones de personas usuarias que se organizan para autoabastecerse sin recurrir al mercado negro. Se basan en el hecho de que el simple consumo de drogas ilícitas no ha sido nunca un delito en la legislación española. Aprovechando ese hueco legal, desde hace años existen clubes privados que producen cannabis para su distribución sin ánimo de lucro en un circuito cerrado de adultos previamente usuarios.

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