The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) was established in 1968 as the monitoring body for the implementation of the United Nations international drug control conventions. Tensions have arisen about the way the INCB performs its duties and about its legal interpretation of the conventions which many feel goes beyond its mandate.
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IDPC response to the 2014 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board
International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
October 2015
The advent of regulated cannabis markets in Uruguay and some US states over the past few years has constituted a profound shock to the international drug control regime, with the differing views representing a fragmentation of the drug control regime. This has been largely met with a collective denial, not only in relation to cannabis but to Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), the internet, access to essential medicines, the centrality of health and human rights in drug control, and the fast-approaching 2016 United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs.
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Dr. Lochan Naidoo - A frank conversation about drugs
International Doctors for Healthier Drug Policies (IDHDP)
Monday, March 30, 2015
The President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Dr Lochan Naidoo, became a member of International Doctors for Healthier Drug Policies (IDHDP) while attending CND 2015 in Vienna and calls his colleagues to assume a core role in drug policy, which should be considered a health issue. -
UN drugs body warns US states and Uruguay over cannabis legalisation
International Narcotics Control Board report says US and Uruguay are breaking drug treaties and warns of huge rise in abuse of ADHD treatment Ritalin
The Guardian (UK)
Tuesday, March 3, 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 comply with the international drug treaties. The annual report from the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board, which is responsible for policing the drug treaties, said it would send a high-level mission to Uruguay, which became the first country to legalise the production, distribution, sale and consumption of cannabis for recreational purposes. -
IDPC response to the 2013 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board
International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
August 2014
The publication of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Report for 2013 took place in the context of major shifts in the drug policy landscape. Uruguay became the world’s first country to legally regulate the market for recreational cannabis, while the US states of Washington and Colorado also began the process of establishing structures for regulating their domestic cannabis markets. These measures represent a seismic shift for the international drug control system and the three treaties that underpin it.
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INCB speaks out against death penalty
The Board does not decide whether cannabis should be downgraded in the schedules
Martin JelsmaWednesday, March 5, 2014
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UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) unprecedented condemnation of the use of death penalty for drug-related offences is welcome if long overdue. The bigger question is whether INCB’s consideration of human rights can be extended into a proper human rights and evidence-based examination of UN’s entire drug control regime. -
Time for UN to open up dialogue on drug policy reform and end counter-productive blame-game
Press release by TNI/GDPO
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
As the UN International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) launches its annual report on Tuesday, 4 March, amidst an unprecedented crisis in the international drug control regime, leading drug policy reform experts have called on the INCB and related UN institutions to urgently open up a constructive dialogue on international drug policy reform.
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INCB vs Uruguay: the art of diplomacy
INCB President Yans disqualified himself and should consider stepping down
Martin JelsmaTuesday, December 17, 2013
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International tensions over Uruguay’s decision to regulate the cannabis market reached new levels when Raymond Yans, president of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), accused Uruguay of negligence with regard to public health concerns, deliberately blocking dialogue attempts and having a "pirate attitude" towards the UN conventions. President Mujica reacted angrily, declaring that someone should "tell that guy to stop lying," while Milton Romani, ambassador to the Organisation of American States (OAS), said that Yans "should consider resigning because this is not how you treat sovereign states." -
'Stop lying': Uruguay president chides UN official over marijuana law
Because he sits in a comfortable international platform, he believes he can say whatever nonsense
RT Novosty (Russia)
Saturday, December 14, 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 the official claimed the country did not consult the anti-drug body before legalizing marijuana. Earlier this week, Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize both the sale and production of marijuana. Yans has accused Uruguay of "pirate attitudes" for knowingly violating the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which the South American country is part of. -
Uruguay's Prez rips into UN official over marijuana law: 'Stop lying'
The Huffington Post (US web)
Friday, December 13, 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 refused to meet with the agency’s officials before legalizing marijuana. Mujica batted down the criticism, insisting that his administration is open to discussing the law and accusing the INCB President Raymond Yans of applying a double standard by criticizing Uruguay, even as U.S. states pass laws to legalize recreational marijuana consumption. "Tell this old guy not to lie," Mujica said. -
IDPC response to the 2012 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board
International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
August 2013
Despite its unprecedented nature within the history of the international drug control regime, and regardless of warnings to the contrary, the Plurinational State of Bolivia’s withdrawal from the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs on 1 January 2012 did not result in a collapse of the United Nations (UN) based control system. That said, there is a strong case that, although marking the centenary of the regime, 2012 will be seen as the beginning of the end of the treaty system in its present form and the re-structuring of a policy world apparently so cherished by many members of the International Narcotics Control Board.
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