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- Calls for reform grow by Transform Drug Policy Foundation: Media Blog on Sep 24, 2009
This month we have seen a plethora or articles in UK newspapers calling for an end to prohibition. There have been so many we thought we’d bring you the best of them in one blog. The articles are written by a variety of people including a former...
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime admits it is at war with itself by Transform Drug Policy Foundation: Media Blog on Jun 24, 2009
News release 24th June 2009The World Drug Report 2009, the flagship annual publication of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), will be launched in Washington DC on 24 June. Launched in the run up to World Drug Day on 26th June, the...
- World Drug Report Preface majors on legalisation by Transform Drug Policy Foundation: Media Blog on Jun 24, 2009
Below is the text from the Preface to World Drug Report 2009 - dominated by a detailed rebuttal of the growing calls for a debate on legal regulation of drug production and supply. We have deconstructed these kind of critiques so many times before,...
- UNODC mugged by reality by Transform Drug Policy Foundation: Media Blog on Jun 1, 2009
Sanho Tree, writing below for the Transform blog, responds to the Guardian report last week that 'US wants 'flood of drugs' in Afghanistan to devalue opium':United Nations officials in Afghanistan are attempting to create a "flood of drugs" in the co...
- UNODC remains shy about publishing report on Dutch Coffee Shop system by Transform Drug Policy Foundation: Media Blog on Mar 26, 2009
Dr Frederick Polak and others have been trying to get the UNODC to publish their discussion document on the Dutch coffee shop system for some time now. Here's the latest attempt to get some answers about the report.Last May at the international harm...
- UNintended Consequences - side effects and contra indications of global prohibition by Transform Drug Policy Foundation: Media Blog on Mar 18, 2009
They may be the UNintended consequences of the drug ‘control’ system, but they show that the entire prohibitionist apparatus should come with an explicit health warning.The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs completes its marathon session on evaluat...
- Fear prevails at the UN as voices for drug law reform are smeared by Transform Drug Policy Foundation: Media Blog on Mar 11, 2009
Today Ministers from around the world are in Vienna for the High Level Meeting of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs to set a new ten-year UN drug strategy. Whilst fear and inertia has generally prevailed amongst our political leaders, we have also...
