Items tagged with reclassification
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| Trends in Drug Law Reform in Europe and Latin America [26.01.2010] | This presentation gives a short overview of legislative reforms in Europe and Latin America that provide lessons learned in practice about less punit ... |
| Guidance on the WHO review of psychoactive substances for international control [17.12.2009] | The 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, entrust the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence o ... |
| TNI Expert Seminar on the Classification of Controlled Substances [10.12.2009] | The classification of drugs has a profound impact on the lives and well-being of individuals across the world and where the classification is incorre ... |
| Legislative Innovation in Drug Policy [01.11.2009] | This briefing summarizes good practices in legislative reforms around the world, representing steps away from a repressive zero-tolerance model towar ... |
| Estimating drug harms: a risky business? [01.10.2009] | No one is suggesting that drugs are not harmful. The critical question is one of scale and degree. We need a full and open discussion of the evidence ... |
| Amendment against anti-coca chewing provisions [21.07.2009] | In March 2009, Evo Morales sent his formal request to the Secretary General Bang Ki Moon to delete articles 49(c) and 49(e) of the 1961 UN Single Con ... |
| Drug Policy Reform in Practice [01.07.2009] | The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with the ... |
| Ranking van drugs [30.06.2009] | In its report Ranking of drugs: A comparison of the harmful effects of drugs, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) has ... |
| Risk assessment of new psychoactive substances [30.06.2009] | The principal aim of these guidelines is to put in place a sound methodological and procedural basis for carrying out each risk assessment. The risk ... |
| Ecstasy 'no more dangerous than horse riding' [07.02.2009] | Writing in an academic journal, Professor David Nutt said taking ecstasy was no worse than the risks of "equasy", a term he invented to describe peop ... |
| Risk assessment of khat use in the Netherlands [22.08.2008] | In preparing a decision about the legal status of khat in the Netherlands, the Dutch Minister of Health requested CAM (Coordination point Assessment ... |
| The current state of drug policy debate [30.04.2008] | Martin Jelsma, from the Transnational Institute, prepared an analysis for the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, explaining the drug p ... |
| Cannabis: Classification and Public Health [01.04.2008] | The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs reviewed the classification of cannabis in the light of real public concern about the potential mental he ... |
| Abolishing Coca Leaf Consumption? [05.03.2008] | The Transnational Institute condemns the decision by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in their 2007 annual report released today, whi ... |
| MDMA (‘ecstasy’) [01.02.2008] | Due to its prevalence of use, MDMA is a significant public health issue. The Council believes that criminal justice measures will only have limited e ... |
| Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse [24.03.2007] | Drug misuse and abuse are major health problems. Harmful drugs are regulated according to classification systems that purport to relate to the harms ... |
| Review of the UK’s Drugs Classification System [01.05.2006] | The UK system of classifying drugs according to their harmfulness has been in place since the introduction of the Misuse of Drugs Act in 1971. Over t ... |
| The global political economy of scheduling [26.02.2004] | This article explains the international context of regulation to control addicting substances that gave rise to schedules. It discusses the impact of ... |
| Development of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971 [01.07.1989] | The 196l Single Convention did not include so-called "psychotropic substances" such as amphetamines and barbiturates among the drugs controlled. The ... |
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