Portugal Set to Introduce Its First Drug Consumption Room
27 May 2014 Portugal’s capital city, Lisbon, has announced that it is exploring opening the country’s first ever drug consumption room (DCR), a positive, though somewhat belated development in the country’s pioneering drug law reforms.
European cities’ sewer water exposes use of cocaine, cannabis, meth and ecstasy
28 May 2014 Source: CNN Think about you might let your city urinate in a cup and submit the pattern to a laboratory for drug testing. Wouldn’t it cross? Researchers in Europe did one thing comparable with forty two main cities, and many of them failed. Lab checks on sewage water to detect chemical compounds […]
MEPs who want to end the war on drugs
In the elections for the European Parliament There was something to vote for Several candidates promised to help us end the war on drugs The following were elected:
Worldwide Campaign: Cannabis for Therapeutic Purposes is a Human Right
An international consortium of medical cannabis organisations are demanding that humans, regardless of state or allegiance and without qualification, be able to use cannabis therapeutically. In a joint declaration, the organisations from Europe and North America refer to Article 3 of the Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948. The declaration […]
After 5 months of legalization in Colorado, revenue is up and crime is down
By Theo Stroomer 20 May 2014 If America’s first marijuana legalization experiment is any indication, the end of prohibition can start smoothly.
Just Say No to the war on drugs
NSA Memo Says Agency Is ‘Blurring The Lines’ Between Terrorism And Drugs
By Matt Siedge 19 May 2014 The National Security Agency is “blurring the lines” between the war on drugs and the war on terror, according to a memo produced by the spy agency itself and published Monday by Glenn Greenwald’s new website The Intercept.
Death from cannabis? A critical reflection
By: Maximilian Plenert 08. Mai 2014
Uruguay announces new regulations on cannabis
Uruguay has announced many of the finer details of its marijuana legalization legislation, with regulations that demonstrate a concerted effort to minimize the risk of large-scale trafficking. By Mimi Yagoub 8 May 2014