1 June 2014
By Jamie Doward
Antwerp, Belgium’s genteel port city, is now revealed as a global drugs gateway and the cocaine capital of Europe
Cannabis & Law: Prohibition vs regulation
06.06.2014
Hotel Lev, Ljubljana
The purpose of this and all other forthcoming seminars in the Demystifying Cannabis series which will be organised in the next few months is to spread new knowledge gained in this field and to make it known to legal experts as well as other experts, policy-makers and the general public in Slovenia.
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 excreted after drug use turned up excessive ranges of cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy, meth and different amphetamines.
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.
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.
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
Why the costly, pointless war on drugs must come to an end
6 May, 2014
A new report from the London School of Economics lays out the case against the counter-productive decades-long attack on recreational drugs.
by John Collins
UK GREENS PLEAD FOR DECRIMINALISATION
By Caroline Allen, Green Party candidate for the European Parliament elections on May 25th
Yesterday I spoke at the 420 event in London’s Hyde Park. The pro-cannabis rally run by NORML-UK and UK Cannabis Social Clubs was well attended in spite of the truly awful weather and relentless rain.