Mexico’s crime epidemic continues to worsen, as poverty and inequality also grow in the country.
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A 1971 law, and the parallel growth of an illegal economy, shaped South Africa’s unique cannabis landscape.
British Columbia’s bold experiment provides an opportunity to implement more balance in Canadian drug policy, and a more principled withdrawal from the war on drugs.
The death of a 22-year-old man in a ‘no-knock’ raid in Minneapolis has sparked fresh concern over the associated risk to the public and police alike.
Here’s what the Australian Federal Police’s new campaign gets wrong.
The Wire was a Greek tragedy, a novel and a bingeworthy social commentary.
Formerly incarcerated Americans face food insecurity rates double that of the general population. A 1996 law that prohibits drug felons from getting crucial benefits may be partially to blame.
Attempts to wage war on drugs in developing countries which don’t take into account the needs of local people are doomed to fail. Here’s why.
A cannabis decriminalization bill approved by the House is a sign from Congress that sentiment around the drug is evolving, but it misses a chance to regulate marijuana for the good of all Americans.
Possessing heroin, cocaine, meth and other drugs for personal use is no longer a criminal offense in Oregon. The idea is to get people with problem drug use help, not punishment.
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.
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.
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Emeritus Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
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Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Sessional Lecturer, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Political and Historical Ethnography, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Bentley University
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Research professor, Universidad Iberoamericana, University of Bath
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Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations, The University of Western Australia
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Assistant professor, University of Amsterdam
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Associate Professor of History, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Reading
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Visiting Fellow in Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading
