President Juan Manuel Santos said during his appearance at the Hay Festival in Cartagena that he would legalize drugs in Colombia, the world’s largest cocaine producer, if that decision is accepted by the rest of the world.

Source: www.cipamericas.org 30 January 2012 By Laura Carlsen* There are many kinds of war. The classic image of a uniformed soldier kissing mom good-bye to risk his life on the battlefield has changed dramatically. In today’s wars, it’s more likely that mom will be the one killed.

WASHINGTON, DC — A question advocating marijuana legalization from a retired LAPD deputy chief of police won twice as many votes as any other video question in the White House’s “Your Interview with the President” competition on YouTube this weekend. President Obama is slated to answer some of the top-voted questions on Monday.

Full text: The Lancet by Robin Room and Peter Reuter 7 january 2012

In Berlin we have a public hearing on Cannabis Social Clubs on January, 25th ( http://www.facebook.com/events/160644777372097/ ). Last autumn the left made a request on CSCs in the German Bundestag. Now the parties will to inform themself about “the danger of cannabis”. Guests are welcome! (Photo Bundestag by Jürgen Matern) Speakers Dr. Klaus Behrendt, Deutsche […]

Source: Transnational Institute 9 January 2012 By Tom Blickman Regulating the cannabis market after a failed attempt to re-criminalise

Source: Transnational Institute Series on Legislative Reform of Drug Policies Nr. 17 January 2012 By Axel Klein, Martin Jelsma and Pien Metaal The globalisation of control and regulation of an ancient stimulant

Source: Hungarian Civil Liberties Union 10 January 2012 The Hungarian government decided to reject the progressive drug strategy of the country and to draft a new, prohibitionist one. The head of the Drug Policy Program of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union argues that this is an example how a government should NOT draft a drug […]

Source: Virgin.com 19 December 2011