IACM-Bulletin 16 August 2009
ENCODS LETTER TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
On 12 August, ENCODs Steering Committee sent the following letter to Carel Edwards, head of the EU Anti-Drugs Unit, concerning the status of the so-called “European Action on Drugs” As a result, the SC members had a meeting with Timo Jetsu, NGO liaison officer at the Anti Drugs Unit in Brussels on Thursday 3 September. […]
LATIN AMERICA ON ITS WAY TO LEGALIZING DRUGS
Source: Latin American Herald-Tribune (Venezuela) 7 August 2009
A COCAINE EPIDEMIC?
Source: Financial Times 1 August 2009 People will tell you that the waste, destruction and misery caused by the prohibition of drugs pale into insignificance compared with the chaos that would follow a lifting of the ban, writes Tom Feiling. Making a substance as addictive as cocaine freely available would, according to Antonio Maria Costa, […]
WHY IT’S TIME TO END THE WAR ON DRUGS
Source: Financial Times Weekend Magazine (UK) 1 Aug 2009 By: Matthew Engel
IACM BULLETIN
IACM-Bulletin 2 August 2009
ENCOD PRESENCE IN FESTIVALS
Encod was present in the Paredes de Coura Music Festival 2009, in the greenest northern part of Portugal.
EQUASY – A HARMFUL ADDICTION
Equasy – An overlooked addiction with implications for the current debate on drug harms by Prof. David J. Nutt Psychopharmacology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. [Journal of Psychopharmacology 2009; 23; 3 > http://jop.sagepub.com ]
UK: CALL FOR SMARTER DRUG POLICY
Source: BBC NEWS 2009/07/30
TRANSFORM BRIEFS UK PRIME MINISTER BROWN
From: [ Transform Drug Policy Foundation->http://www.tdpf.org.uk] 24 July 2007