EMBARRASSMENT FOR UNITED NATIONS DRUG-CZAR COSTA

Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Vienna 6 December 2008 Dear Mr. Costa,

Concluding remarks, about the NGO Forum “Beyond 2008” Vienna 7 – 9 July 2008 by Fredrick Polak, delegate for ENCOD

SEE THE [END CONCLUSIONS OF THE CANNABIS TRIBUNAL  >http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl4pldjizh4] SEE THE DEBATE BETWEEN CDA SPOKESWOMAN CISCA JOLDERSMA AND LEAP MEMBER HANS VAN DUIJN

Workshop on the opportunities and capacities of drug user associations to actively participate in the design of policies that directly concern them.

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa arranged a study visit to Amsterdam on 24 April, during which he visited coffeeshop De Dampkring (the Atmosphere) and a user room (for inhalation and injection of heroin and cocaine), accompanied by two or three collaborators from UNODC, and high officials of the […]

On July 7 to 9 in Vienna, Austria, ENCOD will participate in the “ Beyond 2008 ” NGO Forum. This forum is meant to collect the points of views of NGOs regarding the outcome and the direction of global drug policies. The NGO Forum is supposed to produce a statement that will be included in […]

Letter from a Berlin activist who planted one cannabis plant at the Netherlands embassy in Vienna after the demonstration on 7 March 2008.

Report of CND-meeting, Vienna 10 – 14 March 2008 by Fredrick Polak, member of ENCOD steering committee, and of the board of Stichting Drugsbeleid, Netherlands Drug Policy Foundation