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NZ: Numbers on cannabis speak for themselves
The advocates of decriminalising cannabis now have an economic case to press. A Treasury official, in a document prepared for a brainstorming session, suggested the Government could save more than $500 million a year legalising the popular drug. […]
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Italian Parliament to Consider Marijuana Legalization
Italy hopes to jown a growing list of countries that have recently reformed marijuana laws. If Italy passes the bill currently under consideration, it would become the first European country to legalize marijuana for non-medical use. […]
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Why more drug consumption rooms are a must
It’s well and truly time we opened more Drug Consumption Rooms in our major cities and in some of our larger regional centres. New centres should also be able to handle people who inhale ice, a drug about which the community rightly remains concerned. […]
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Drug War Fuels Global Lack of Access to Essential Medicines
How much pain you have to suffer shouldn’t be determined by where you live, and it is unacceptable that we let stigma and misguided fears of addiction get in the way of allowing patients to realize their right to health. […]
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Matt Noffs tackles drug problem with Australia’s first ice inhalation room
Mr Noffs said there were only two perspectives on drug use — those who see the evidence and what the rest of the world is doing and the other group who close their eyes and hope the ice problem goes away without help. […]
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100 Dead and Rising as Filipino President Duterte’s Bloody ‘War on Drugs’ Continues
Duterte’s murderous measures represent the ‘war on drugs’ taken to deeply worrying extremes. […]
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Calls for needle exchange programs in jail
The spread of blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis B and C among Australia’s prison population has prompted a call for jails to establish needle exchange programs. […]
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Tasmania needs ice inhalation centre to help people overcome addiction
Who opposes this mainstream medical idea? Zealots who believe in abstinence, weak and reactionary politicians and of course the worst group of the lot – those who actually think there can be a drug free world. You know, the same people who think the earth is flat. […]
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Soaring prison population prompts Thailand to re-think ‘lost’ drug war
More than a decade after Thailand declared a “war on drugs”, the country is admitting defeat. As the prison population soars, Justice Minister Paiboon Koomchaya told Reuters he was looking at changes to the country’s draconian drug laws. […]
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Drugs, Dissociatives and Displacement: The Festival Drug Report
The only way that we can know for sure what is circulating at festivals and whether dealers are misselling NPS to users is to conduct forensic testing on site and to match what users think they have bought with what they have actually bought. This is essential for public safety, for emergency services to respond appropriately to incidents, and for…
