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ENCOD BULLETIN ON DRUG POLICIES IN EUROPE

NR 60 FEBRUARY 2010

DRUG WAR - MEDIA WAR

Letter to the Independent on Sunday (UK)
23 January 2010
By Damon Barrett, [International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy
>http://www.humanrightsanddrugs.org/?cat=5]
Sir,
Hugh O’Shaughnessy notes recent shifts in the American policy on drugs, but there is an ongoing move towards greater securitisation of the drug “threat” and fusion with the “war on terror” (”US waves white flag in disastrous ‘war on drugs’”, 17 January).
The New York Times reports that the US attorney for Manhattan is to (...)

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THURSDAY 4 MARCH 2010, 1 PM

Laws against cannabis have failed to cut its use around the world and have led to policies that are intrusive, socially divisive and expensive, according to an international group of drug policy experts.

In a book published on Tuesday looking at cannabis policies, the experts said that, while the drug harmed some users, it had only a modest effect on society, where cocaine and alcohol were potentially more damaging.

"It is time for governments around the world to readdress cannabis policy," Peter Reuter, a professor of public policy at the University of Maryland in the United States and one of the book’s five co-authors, told Reuters in an interview.