The Human Rights are in the beginning of the recognizement on drugs. Appearing different approaches to introduce that on drug topics.
ENCOD Board Rotates Presidency
Following our Executive Committee meeting in Amsterdam, Maja Kohek has been succeeded by Mauro Picavet for the next 6 months.
PROPOSAL TO REGULATE THE SELF CULTIVATION AND CANNABIS SOCIAL CLUBS IN BELGIUM
On the last 13th of September the Belgian Socialist Party brought forth in the House of Representatives a proposal to regulate the home grow and the Cannabis Social Clubs, through the risk prevention vision. It is addressed just to Belgian residents.
INJECTABLE DRUGS IN PORTUGAL
ENCOD visits a Lisbon peripheral zone to discover the reality of the injectable drug users with Doctor Luís Patrício (Mala Da Prevenção).
Legislation on consumption & posession of drugs in France
Consumption of any product listed in the first annex to the list of controlled drugs can be sanctioned with a one year prison sentence and a 3.750 € fine. However, since june 2013, the pharmaceutical industry has obtained the possibility of requesting approval for the commercialisation of medicines containing the cannabis flower or its derivates, […]
Pills not pints
Twenty chronic alcoholics will be given doses of pure MDMA, a drug known recreationally as molly, or ecstasy, in a bid to wean them off alcohol, during a landmark experimental study set to begin in Bristol this summer. “After 100 years of modern psychiatry our treatments are really poor,” lead researcher, Ben Sessa, of Imperial […]
Catalonia regulates the Cannabis Social Clubs
The popular legislative initiative introduced in 2015 by civil society was approved by a large majority in the Catalan Parliament.
Support. Don’t Punish.
Today is a day of action. ENCOD would like to share with you IDPC’s global advocacy campaign. What follows is a text from their campaign website.
Giving Tuesday, a day to give
Giving Tuesday is an initiative to contribute to social network in funding way. It’s celebrated on 28th of November around the world.
Encod Participates In Civil Society Meeting On Municipal Drug Policies In Member States At European Parliament
Brussels – 20 June 2017 An expert panel was held in the European Parliament organized by Michał Boni MEP, Maltese Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the Polish Drug Policy Network on “Public safety and public health – municipal drug policies in the Member States”. Representatives of groups working “in the trenches” […]