Policy makers need to protect and promote the interests of people whose indigenous knowledge and toil developed a thriving national cannabis economy - in the face of harsh police crackdowns.
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The American public should understand that the United States has played a critical role in creating and fuelling violence in Latin America via its unsuccessful war on drugs.
Bolivia’s drug control strategy was once internationally applauded.
The federal government’s fight against cocaine distribution wrongly assumes that it’s all destined for the US.
What will it take to change a brutal and militaristic style of policing in America? Political will.
Production of coca leaf, the raw material in cocaine, is surging in Peru despite 40 years of forced eradication designed to convince farmers to abandon it. Bolivia shows a better way forward.
A program intended to reduce coca production ended up giving two Latin American countries a big boost to their flower power.
Drug users are already among the most marginalized and stigmatized populations in times without a pandemic. Unless we decriminalize drug use, once again they will bear the brunt of another deadly disease.
A researcher who fled crime-beset Mexico returns to interview the drug cartels behind so much of the violence, asking 33 ‘narcos’ everything about their lives, from birth to their latest murder.
Police crackdown operations are likely to exacerbate the structural inequalities that can influence criminality in the first place.
Both presidents brought border traffic and trade to a standstill in hopes of changing Mexican policy in the drug war. And both failed to achieve their goals.
The UN’s new rights focus has the potential to overhaul the punitive nature of the war on drugs.
The Mexican slow-down in life expectancy improvements coincides with an unprecedented rise in violence.
Understanding the pleasure drugs give people would help to prevent the harms.
With several music festival patrons dying this year the pill testing debate is in full swing. Yet people can already purchase legally available test kits. Do they work?
There are arguments against pill testing. But none are as compelling or evidence-based as the arguments for it.
The government’s own review of its legislation to tackle ‘legal highs’ reveals the unintended consequences of the law – consequences we predicted.
Even with the best will in the world, there’s only so much social policy can do to stop organised crime.
Just seven countries worldwide regularly execute people for drug crimes, most of them authoritarian regimes. Nothing suggests that this brutal policy actually curbs drug use.
The Canadian deal to sell helicopters to the Philippines has finally been killed. What took so long, and why was it the Philippines, not Canada, that ultimately scrubbed the deal?
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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