Place: Minho University, Braga Portugal
Time: 10 September 2010 at 17.30h.
Speakers: Professor Alberto Dias (Molecular Botanic), Dr. Filipe Vasconcelos (Anthropology), João Silva (Bloco de Esquerda), Jorge Roque (Encod).
Britain Pro-cannabis activists slam ‘drug bust waste’
Source: Morning Star Online
Tuesday 17 August 2010
Campaigners for the legalisation of cannabis in Britain have pointed to a spiralling number of police raids on cannabis factories as evidence that prohibition has been a failure.
UK: TOP DOCTOR SIR IAN GILMORE CALLS FOR DRUG LAW REVIEW
Source: [BBC News
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10990921]
17 August 2010
AN OPEN CONFERENCE ON PSYCHEDELIC RESEARCH
Stichting OPEN is proud to organize the first academic conference on psychedelic research. We offer you two full days of 21st century, cutting edge research into psychedelics and the psychedelic experience. Our conference is organized for all those with a serious interest in psychedelic research. We also invite therapists, researchers, addiction experts and academics, as well as students to become acquainted with a field of research that regular university curricula barely touch upon.
HARVARD PROFESSOR: LEGALIZE ALL DRUGS
Jeffrey Miron is an economics professor at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. His field of expertise is the economics of libertarianism. He has written four books including “Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition” and “Libertarianism, from A to Z.”
In this video Miron advocates for legalizing all drugs.
WHY THE US AND LATIN AMERICA COULD BE READY TO END A FRUITLESS 40-YEAR STRUGGLE
Source: The Observer
8 August 2010
By Rory Carroll and Paul Harris
Mexico’s president Felipe Caldéron is the latest Latin leader to call for a debate on drugs legalisation. And in the US, liberals and right-wing libertarians are pressing for an end to prohibition. Forty years after President Nixon launched the ‘war on drugs’ there is a growing momentum to abandon the fight
