Drugs are a development issue - which is why we should legalise them
[05.10.2010]
If there is a "war on drugs", this is it. Mexico is undergoing worse violence than has been seen in Latin America in decades. President Felipe Calder ...
The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition
[29.09.2010]
The CATO report estimates that legalizing drugs would save roughly $41.3 billion per year in government expenditure on enforcement of prohibition. Of ...
US waves white flag in disastrous 'war on drugs'
[16.01.2010]
After 40 years of defeat and failure, America's "war on drugs" is being buried in the same fashion as it was born – amid bloodshed, confusion, corrup ...
The consequences and costs of marijuana prohibition
[01.03.2009]
This report draws on a wide range of data sources to assess the consequences and costs of enforcing criminal laws that prohibit the use of marijuana. ...
Prohibition versus Legalization
[01.12.2007]
Economists have been among the leading critics of current drug policies, but this criticism does not mean they have reached a consensus about specifi ...
Beyond Punitive Prohibition
[01.03.2006]
The primary objective of this paper is to evaluate whether the drug conventions permit states to experiment with alternatives to the punitive prohibi ...
Drugs in the UN system
[01.04.2003]
The "international community" presented an apparent unanimity in its endorsement of prohibitive drug control at the United Nations General Assembly S ...
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the United Nations International Drug Control Programme
[01.04.2003]
Meetings of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) are no forum for debate and change. The author, a former senior officer of the United Nations Inte ...
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