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Bolivia ended its drug war by kicking out the DEA and legalizing coca
Farmers feel particularly indebted to President Evo Morales, a former firebrand coca growers’ leader from the Chapare. Morales expelled the DEA from Bolivia in 2008 after violent confrontations in the region claimed 30 lives and he said he could no longer guarantee the US agents’ safety. […]
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Copenhagen’s New Supervised Injection Site Is Swanky
“It would be great to have more supervised consumption sites in other parts of Copenhagen because we can see that people no longer die of overdoses in Vesterbro after we’ve opened the consumption facility here.” […]
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Grow up and legalise cannabis, New Zealand
Legalising cannabis would not be perfect, but it would be a damn sight better than many other legal substances such as tobacco, sugar, alcohol to name a few. […]
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Richard Branson throws support behind Matt Noffs’ plans to create Australia’s first ice safe room
Following calls by Matt Noffs, Alex Wodak, Former Federal Police Commissioner Mick Palmer and Jacqui Lambie — I also urge both state governments and the Australian government to look into the establishment of safe rooms throughout the country,” he said. […]
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Inside a Music Festival in a Country Where All Drugs Are Decriminalized
In Portugal, where the government’s approach to drugs is almost completely outside the realm of law enforcement, the climate at music festivals is different. Onsite drug-checking services test purity, and virtually no one is hassled for their supplements of choice. That’s because 15 years ago, a bold national policy was…
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A Stark Choice For Filipino Drug Addicts: Surrender Or Risk Being Killed
The government says more than 700,000 people have surrendered. They’re fearful of what the president’s war on drugs might bring for them. That number has overwhelmed the government, which has neither the budget nor the infrastructure to help so many addicts. There are fewer than 50 government-accredited treatment and rehab…
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Troy Grant: the one NSW minister who should resign
At a harm minimisation summit at parliament house in August, an exasperated Harm Reduction Australia president Gino Vumbaca revealed that he had written to Grant inviting him to discuss issues of pill testing at music festivals. […]
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Jay Z: the war on drugs is an epic fail
Why are white men poised to get rich doing the same thing African-Americans have been going to prison for? […]
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In an Act of Extreme Sanity, Canada Approves Prescription Heroin
In Canada’s continued mission to become the woke sibling of the United States, Justin Trudeau’s government has just approved prescription heroin. The idea is to help severe addicts who haven’t responded to methadone, rehab, and other treatments. […]
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Read the Global Commission on Drug Policy’s Open Letter to “Brutal” President Duterte
Former Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour and businessman and philanthropist Sir Richard Branson—all members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy—have written an open letter to President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, originally published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. […]