Many activists, NGOs and protestors refuse to go in the building and instead camp outside the UN in New York, for the 2016 UNGASS conference about the War on Drugs! Not only, because UN is a difficult place to get in at the best of times, but because they see it as futile, as many […]
No slowdown in legal highs flooding Europe, say drug watchdogs
There are no signs of any slowdown in the continuous stream of legal highs with more than 100 new psychoactive substances reported in 2015, according to a report by Europol and the EU’s drug agency.
Why the Heroin Trade Helped Defeat the US in Afghanistan
In October 2001, the U.S. launched its invasion of Afghanistan largely through proxy Afghan fighters with the help of Special Operations forces, American air power, and CIA dollars. The results were swift and stunning. The Taliban was whipped, a new government headed by Hamid Karzai soon installed in Kabul, and the country declared “liberated.”
Drug Activist Joep Oomen dies at 54
An online memorial to show support has been opened here. ANTWERP – On Friday, March 18th, 2016 Joep Oomen has unexpectedly passed away in his home in Antwerp, Belgium. As an activist he has fought for over a quarter of a century for humane and just drug policies and an end to the war on […]
UN’s chance to end the war on drugs
11 March 2016 By Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Cesar Gaviria and Ernesto Zedillo
State Department: Obama Could Call for Global Drug Decriminalization
By Tom Angell* 9 March 2016
Washington’s Twenty-First-Century Opium Wars
By Alfred McCoy, Tom Dispatch 22 February 2016