Under the Psychoactive Substances Act it will not be a criminal offence for someone to possess for their own consumption recreational drugs too dangerous to be legally sold to the public. […]

A group of students from Victoria University are joining the push for drug testing to protect them and their friends from taking potentially fatal chemicals in lieu of actual drugs. The Wellington arm of Students for Sensible Drug Policy wants the New Zealand Government to allow drug testing at festivals. […]

Many issues were discussed at the 2 March 2016 Drug Summit organised by the Greens leader Richard Di Natale at Parliament House.To me the two main topics included the decriminalisation of drugs, similar to the Portuguese model.The other key topic for me was giving consideration to introducing more supervised injecting centres in Australia. […]

Branson is a long-time believer that the war on drugs approach should be rejected and instead decriminalisation of drug possession and use should be introduced in its place. […]

During the ASPI research, discussions with the publicly funded drug treatment facilities identified that annual person-bed costs were in the 32 to 35 thousand dollar range, while a 2015 Business Insider report identified that the average annual cost of a person-bed in a jail was more than $106,000. A conservative cost savings of more than $70,000 per person-bed, not including…

To many observers, the US’s drug scheduling seems arbitrary. To understand why, it’s instructive to look back at how the schedules were made. […]

The Federal Drug Control Service faced international criticism for claims about the “success” of Russia’s regressive drug policies. Russia has one of the world’s highest rates of heroin consumption, and, following Russia’s invasion of Crimea and blocking of methadone treatment, there have been over 100 overdose deaths on the peninsula. Russia has also been credited with helping to scuttle last…

John Halpern, psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School, believes that western cultures have adopted such a stringent attitude out of fear and that, “with the absence of facts, fear may reign.” […]

‘We’re out, we’re proud, and we’re not going anywhere.’ That’s how we’re going to change people’s perceptions. We’re going to introduce ourselves as drug users, and we’re going to show how there are functional drug users and responsible drug users.” […]

The Greens’ leader Richard Di Natale used the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy conference in Sydney to announce a $10 million Harm Reduction Innovation Fund. […]