Items tagged with reclassification
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| Fact Sheet on the Proposal to Discuss International Scheduling of Ketamine at the 58th CND [14.02.2015] | Ketamine is an essential medicine used for anaesthesia. It is the only available anaesthetic for essential surgery in most rural areas of developing ... |
| Taking Control: Pathways to Drug Policies that Work [09.09.2014] | The upcoming United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) in 2016 is an unprecedented opportunity to review and re-direct nation ... |
| FDA to review marijuana safety [20.07.2014] | The United States federal government is considering easing its position on marijuana, reclassifying it as a less dangerous drug in what marijuana adv ... |
| FDA to evaluate marijuana for potential reclassification as less dangerous drug [23.06.2014] | The US Food and Drug Administration is reviewing the medical evidence surrounding the safety and effectiveness of marijuana, a process that could lea ... |
| 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 ... |
| 'Thousands of inmates' can soon be released under drug law [28.05.2014] | A new decree that overhauls Italy's drugs laws paves the way for releasing "thousands of convicted smalltime drug dealers from prison". The move foll ... |
| There's simply no case for banning khat [30.03.2014] | Khat is as potent as a strong cup of coffee and has no organised crime involvement – yet the government wants to spend £150m on a ban that would crea ... |
| Italy's strict drug law goes up in smoke [16.02.2014] | On February 12, the Constitutional Court ruled that the Fini-Giovanardi law setting out penalties related to the sale and possession of illegal drugs ... |
| Italy relaxes cannabis penalties [12.02.2014] | Italy's Constitutional Court struck down an anti-drug law from 2006 that imposed tough sentencing for the sale and possession of cannabis, putting it ... |
| 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 ... |
| ‘Club drug’ ketamine lifts depression in hours [21.05.2013] | The largest study to date confirms that ketamine — a “club drug” that is also legally used as an anesthetic — could be a quick and effective way to r ... |
| The real driver behind most drug use is pleasure, not dependence [18.04.2013] | Harm minimisation, harm reduction, drug-related harm, drug overdose, addiction: these are the dominant narratives that are used when we talk about dr ... |
| Drugs advisory group decides against banning qat in UK [23.01.2013] | A clash between the home secretary, Theresa May, and her expert drugs advisory group is looming after it decided against banning qat, a mild herbal s ... |
| Khat: A review of its potential harms to the individual and communities in the UK [23.01.2013] | On the basis of the available evidence, the overwhelming majority of Council members consider that khat should not be controlled under the Misuse of ... |
| Khat ban rejected by UK drug advisers [23.01.2013] | The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) said there was "insufficient evidence" that khat caused health problems. The stimulant is traditio ... |
| Marijuana still a drug with no accepted medical use, court says [23.01.2013] | Marijuana will continue to be considered a highly dangerous drug under federal law with no accepted medical uses, after a U.S. appeals court refused ... |
| Khat: a legal high, but should it be banned? [21.01.2013] | Khat, a stimulant drug, is chewed by around 90,000 people in the east African and Yemeni communities in the UK. But now the Home Office is considerin ... |
| Khat ban calls ahead of government report [15.01.2013] | Calls for the herbal high khat to be banned in the UK have been renewed days before a government report into its usage is due to be published. Some m ... |
| Decriminalise drugs – it would reduce the level of harm in Britain [13.01.2013] | The all-party parliamentary group on drug policy reform undertook an inquiry into the implications of the arrival of "legal highs" – a new substance ... |
| Dutch to classify super strong marijuana alongside heroin [20.11.2012] | The Dutch government is planning to classify strong strains of marijuana and cannabis as a Class A drug alongside heroin and cocaine. Coffee shops wi ... |
| Medical marijuana: disabled veteran's appeal could change US drugs policy [22.10.2012] | A disabled veteran has told an appeals court that the department of veteran affairs policy on medical marijuana has caused him pain and significant e ... |
| Medical marijuana advocates seek reclassification of drug [15.10.2012] | A medical marijuana advocate urged a federal appeals court to require the U.S. government to relax, or at least rethink, a more-than-40-year-old rule ... |
| Britain's drug policies could be wasting billions [15.10.2012] | Despite the successes of recent years, there are still approximately 2,000 drug-related deaths in the UK every year. Nearly 400,000 people have serio ... |
| Chewing over Khat prohibition [10.01.2012] | In the context of a fast changing and well documented market in legal highs, the case of khat (Catha edulis) provides an interesting anomaly. It is f ... |
| Prescribing Cannabis for Harm Reduction [05.01.2012] | Neuropathic pain affects between 5% and 10% of the US population and can be refractory to treatment. Opioids may be recommended as a second-line phar ... |
| States say it's time to rethink medical marijuana [01.01.2012] | Medical marijuana advocates are hoping state governments can succeed where their efforts have failed by asking federal authorities to reclassify pot ... |
| Colorado seeks new pot classification [28.12.2011] | Colorado has become the third state to ask the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify marijuana in a way that allows doctors to prescribe ... |
| Bolivia’s Morales wants UN to lift ban on chewing coca leaves in 2012 [26.12.2011] | Bolivian President Evo Morales believes that in 2012 the United Nations will finally agree that chewing of coca leaves is a legal ancient tradition o ... |
| Should We Reschedule Marijuana? [07.12.2011] | Last week's request by Govs. Chris Gregoire and Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee to have the federal government reclassify marijuana as medicine--which ... |
| Wash. governor wants DEA to reclassify marijuana [30.11.2011] | Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee have filed a petition with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration asking the ag ... |
| Global Commission on Drug Policy Report [02.06.2011] | The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of ... |
| Ecstasy does not wreck the mind, study claims [20.02.2011] | There is no evidence that ecstasy causes brain damage, according to one of the largest studies into the effects of the drug. Too many previous studie ... |
| The development of international drug control [01.02.2011] | The emergence of more pragmatic and less punitive approaches to the drugs issue may represent the beginning of change in the current global drug cont ... |
| Aide-Memoire on the Bolivian Proposal To Amend Article 49 of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [13.01.2011] | In 2009, the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma, sent a letter to the General Secretary of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, in which the Governme ... |
| The concept of ‘drug harms’ [28.12.2010] | In my view, perceived harms associated with drugs are vulnerable to so many restrictions on reliability and validity that, for the time being, a seri ... |
| Proposals for banning drugs are more draconian than they seem [08.12.2010] | The plan to remove the requirement for scientists or experts on the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) as proposed in the Police Reform a ... |
| David Nutt: 'The government cannot think logically about drugs' [06.12.2010] | If someone were to invent a perfectly safe ecstasy pill, what would be done about it? It's the sort of scenario clubbers like to speculate about, usu ... |
| Government proposes to scrap need for scientific advice on drugs policy [05.12.2010] | Ministers will not be required to seek the advice of scientists when making drug classification policy in future, under new government proposals. The ... |
| Prop. 19 Failure Means Advocates Have Clean Slate [16.11.2010] | Drug use and abuse are social and pubic health issues. But these drug laws started as purity laws in a progressive effort to stop pharmaceutical comp ... |
| Mephedrone: still available and twice the price [05.11.2010] | Findings suggest that classification of mephedrone has had a limited effect on controlling its availability and use. Before the introduction of the l ... |
| Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin' says Prof David Nutt [01.11.2010] | Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack, according to a study published in medical journal the Lancet. The report is co-authored by Professor Da ... |
| Drug harms in the UK [01.11.2010] | To provide better guidance to policy makers in health, policing, and social care, the harms that drugs cause need to be properly assessed. This task ... |
| Politics and science in classifying the dangers of drugs [01.11.2010] | There is a long history of psychoactive substances being regarded as dangerous and subsequently being banned or forbidden. Often the bans were introd ... |
| Cuts prompt police to call for debate on drugs and redirect resources [18.09.2010] | One of Britain's most senior police officers has said youngsters caught carrying personal amounts of drugs such as cannabis should "not be criminalis ... |
| Drug Law Reform: Lessons from the New Zealand Experience [19.08.2010] | In 2007, the Government of New Zealand entrusted an independent agency, the National Law Commission, to review the country’s drug law. The Commission ... |
| Mephedrone found not guilty, but the next legal high may be a killer [06.08.2010] | The mephedrone scare started at the end of 2009 when newspapers and the BBC reported that Gabrielle Price, a 14-year-old girl from Brighton, had died ... |
| A good chew or good riddance [15.07.2010] | The article reviews the status of khat, the most recent plant based psychoactive substance to reach a global market, and considers policy making proc ... |
| Mephedrone: the class D solution [17.03.2010] | The deaths of two young men in Scunthorpe last Monday that have been linked to the new "legal high" mephedrone (colloquially known as plant food, meo ... |
| Coca chewing out of the UN convention? [01.03.2010] | This briefing offers some background on the issue to amend the UN Single Convention towards a more coherent and realistic stance on the ancient tradi ... |
| IDPC Drug Policy Guide [01.03.2010] | This is the second edition of the IDPC Drug Policy Guide aimed at national government policy makers. This publication is a collaborative effort by a ... |
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