Topic: UN Drug Conventions
International Drug Policy Groups Evaluate The Global Impact of Drug Legalization
January 23, 2012 · By DFAF
Urging Nations to Uphold and Enhance Current Efforts to Prevent the Use, Cultivation, Production, Traffic, and Sale of Illegal Drugs (St. Petersburg, FL) Significant groups from across the globe came together to evaluate the potential impact of drug legalization. This alliance of drug policy experts found that drugs are an enormous social problem and that […]
Read More...International Statement of Support to United Nations Conventions on Narcotics
January 23, 2012 · By Gráinne Kenny
International groups who describe themselves as world experts are working hard to promote full legalisation of drugs. They propose different approaches through Medical Marijuana (NORML US), Cannabis legalisation/decriminalisation, injecting rooms and harm reduction with no independent evaluation of results.
Read More...Drug Legalisation: An Evaluation of the Impacts on Global Society
December 21, 2011 ·
The flawed proposition of drug legalisation Various well funded pressure groups have mounted campaigns to overturn the United Nations Conventions on drugs. These groups claim that society should accept the fact of drugs as a problem that will remain and, therefore, should be managed in a way that would enable millions of people to take […]
Read More...PRESS RELEASE: Viennagate
January 27, 2003 · By EURAD
The Head of Demand Reduction at the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime in Vienna last November has been forced to resign. Mike Trace (formerly Dep. Drug Tsar in the UK until his appointment as head of EMCDDA in Lisbon) was subsequently appointed to this influential post with the UN last November. However, […]
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