Here you find articles debating Drug policy
IDPC Special Alert - Support Bolivia's decision to withdraw from the 1961 Single Convention to protect indigenous rights, IDPC, July 11, 2011.
Dump the war on drugs, Chicago Tribune June 15, 2011.
Drug trafficking on the rise through Ecuador, L.A.Times, June 26, 2011
Call Off the Global Drug War, By former president Jymmy Carter, NYTimes.com, 16. June 2011.
The Global Commission on Drug Policy report calls for the legalisation of some drugs and an end to the criminalisation of drug users, June 2, 2011
Global war on drugs 'has failed' say former leaders, BBC, June 2, 2011
Drug War Anniversary a Time for Reflection and Action, By Ethan Nadelmann, Drug Policy Alliance, February 11, 2011
A 50 Year Old Convention: What's Wrong With an Update?, Video by Drugreporter, April 1. 2011
The Wire's War on the Drug War, By Ed Burns et all, in Time.com, March 5. 2011.
Drug problem here to stay, says Lao Ta, Banckok Post, Frbruary 30, 2011.
When Booze Was Banned but Pot Was Not, book review by Jacob Sullum, February 2011.
New Study Shows Portugal's Decriminalization of All Drugs Was Followed by Reductions in Student Drug Use, Prison Overcrowding, Drug Related Deaths and HIV/ AIDS, British Journal of Criminology, Nov. 18, 2010
'Attempt to prohibit the use of illict drugs 'is having little effect', By Stephem Lunn, The Australian, Nov. 27, 2010.
The beginning of the end for the War on Drugs? By Joe Amon, SF Cronicle, November 21, 2010.
Britain's drugs hypocrisy is a giant self-inflicted wound, By Simon Jenkins, The Guardian U.K., Nov. 2. 2010.
What the World Can Learn from Drug Policy Change in Switzerland, By Joanne Csete, Columbia University, May 2010
I Have Seen the Future of US Politics & Its Name is Prop 19, By Al Giordano Narco News Bulletin, October 21. 2010
The promise of legalization - Anti-drug policies in the US have failed and it's time for a saner policy of legalization and regulation, LA Times, October 16, 2010
United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Anand Grover calls for the regulation of illicit drugs and the de-criminalisation of drug users, TalkingDrugs.org, October 22, 2010
Afghanistan's forgotten women, Talking Drugs, October, 7, 2
Drug Legalization a Windfall for State Budgets, By Katherine Waldock Huffington Post, September 29. 2010.
Former Spanish Prime Minister Says Legalize Drugs to End Violence, By Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle, September 15. 2010
War on drugs: why the US and Latin America could be ready to end a fruitless 40-year struggle, The Observer U.K., August 8. 2010
Max Miller: "Legalize All Drugs", Harward professor Jeffrey Miron explains his opinion on a video, by BIGthink.com, August 11. 2010
As The Drug War Rages On, Will Mexico Surrender?, By Jason Beaubien, NPR, August 6. 2010.
The chairman of the Bar Council is right to say we should consider decriminalising drugs, A Blog by Andrew M. Brown in The Telegraph U.K., July 20. 2010
Legalise drugs and a worldwide epidemic of addiction will follow, By Antonio Maria Costa, The Observer U.K., Sept. 5. 2010
Dirty Money - How to break the link between organized crime and politics, Americas Quarterly, Spring 2010
6 American Drug czar's manipulate and lie to misrepresent Dutch drug experience - misleading CA public before voting for important proposition, LA times - and reply from Dutch psyciatrist, Aug. 2010
Poppy for Medicine - Licensing poppy cultivation for the production of essential medicines: an intergrated counter narcotics, development, and counter-insurgency model for Afghanistan, 2010
Mexico Drug Cartels' Territory, by NPR, May 2010
US: End in Sight for Infamous Crack Cocaine Laws, Legislation to Address Racial Disparity in Sentencing Heads to President Obama’s Desk, HRW.org, July 28. 2010
The Vienna Declaration, official declaration of the XVIII International AIDS Conference 2010 in Vienna, Austria
US ends ‘war on drugs’, By Cormac O’Keeffe, Irish Examiner, May 2010
US drug war has met none of its goals, By Marthe Mendoza (AP) May 13.2010
Towards a Brave New World: After the War on Drugs: What Regulation Would Look Like, By Matthew Bates, Users News, autumn 2010
Ending drug prohibition: the ultimate austerity measure, NRC , Handelsblad Nederland, May 2010
Time to Stop the drug war, by John Strossel, FOX News, June 2010
The war on drugs is doomed, Wall Street Journal, 22. March 2010
The Future of Drug Reform Is Bright, By Fred Gardner, AlterNet, March 22, 2010
Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift by Kevin Casas-Zamora, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Latin America Initiative, April 22, 2009.
5 Years After: Portugal's Drug Decriminalization Policy Shows Positive Results, Street drug-related deaths from overdoses drop and the HIV cases crashes, Scientific American, April 7, 2009.
America's Phoney War in Afghanistan, By F. William Engdahl, October 21. 2009
A Radical Solution to End the Drug War- Legalize Everything!, By John H. Richardson - Esquire, 1.9.2009
Rockefeller Drug Laws Are a Crime, DrugReporter AlterNet, March 5.2009.
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies, by Glenn Greenwald, April 2009
The End of Global Uniform Drug Policy, By Frederick Polak, ENCOD Bulletin, April 5.2009.
Five Ways We Can Build a Movement to Stop This Idiotic War on Drugs, By Tony Newman, AlterNet, Jan 12.2009.
On the trail of the traffickers, Mexico City, Economist.com, March 5.2009.
Doomed To Repeat History - Column By J.Paradice, North Shore News, Dec.17.2008.
The Prospects for Drug Reform in Obama's Washington, AlterNet Nov. 18.2008.
Legalizing drugs - The money argument, By Dan Rodricks, December 2.2008.
Stoners Before the Stone Age Getting High Is as Old as Dirt, By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, The Telegraph (UK) & Alternet, Oct. 27.2008.
UK drug charity 'The next ten year UN drug strategy could be the last under absolute prohibition', Transform, 10.3.2008.
Alex Jones - In live Studio With former DEA Agent Cele Castillo, Abouth Fake Drug War, Sept.2006.
Time to rethink expensive, futile War on Drugs, The Star Phonix, Februar 3.2009.
Historical - Harry Anslinger, the 1. Director of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics - 1930-1967
Policy Makers Ignoring Science -The Medical Ethical Challenges of Heroin treatment, May 2006
Legalize drugs, By Terry Michael, in Washington Post, 24.July 2006
The war on drugs cannot be won, by Judge James P. Gray, 12. October 2005
US War On Drugs A 'Tragic Failure' New Scientist 12. Mar 2005
Free heroin project can help addicts come clean, By Kevin Barrett, The Province, Vancouver, Canada 20.3.2005
Canadian government gives free heroin, By Camille Breland, Daily Mississippian 1.4.2005
UK: Hundreds more heroin additc to be given a fix on the NHS, by Nic Flemming, Daily Telegraph 25.4.2005
Scotland: Prison drug tests 'failing to have impact', By Michael Howie, 22.04.05
Good news from Brazil...decriminalizing the drug user nationwide, and opening 250 safe drug use centers across the country during the year 2005, Narconews April 2004.
Counting the Costs of the Drug War, By Ann Harrison, AlterNet, 7. May 2004
Afghanistan, American Drug Colony - War, the CIA and Narco-Trafficking, By Mike Whitney, Sept. 8 2004
UK: Legalise Heroin And Sell It On Street, Says Police Chief, By Nigel Bunyan Telegraph, 6. Feb 2004
'I get my heroin on the NHS' BBC News, 8. April 2004
Drug Prohibition and Terrorism By Tod H. Mikuriya M.D. DrugNews 16 Apr 2004
The Economic Benefits of Drug Policy Reforms Speech By Joep Oomen, Encod April 2004
Russian Drug policies fuelling Aids, www.News24.com, 28. April 2004
Brazil Legalize Drugs Now, By Norman Madarasz, BRAZZIL & DrugNews, 24. Apr. 2004
Russia - No More Jail Terms for Drug Possession, ReconSider TidBits, 14. May 2004
Illicit Drug Policies and the Global HIV Epidemic - Effects of UN and National Government Approaches, By Daniel Wolfe, OSI, 2004
UK: The best treatment for addiction - Free heroin By Johan Hari The Independent UK 6 Mar 2004
Ten years of heroin handouts fixes drug crime The Neue Zuricher Zeitung 26 Jan 2004
A snapshot of European drug policies - Map of Europe 2004
Italy Marches Bravely Into 20th Century ReconsiDer Tidbits 10 December 2003
Short calls for free drugs on NHS BBC News 8 Nov.2003
You might think that I’m mad – But Should We Make All Drugs Legal, By Cassandra, The Mirror UK-DrugNews, 5 Jan 2003
Mexico - Promising Year Ahead for New Drug Policy Reform, Drug Policy Alliance, 21 Jan 2003
US: Michigan repeals strict drug law - The law was a joke, ReconsiDer Tidbit, 31 Jan 2003
Criminals The Only Winners In The War On Drugs, By Robert Sharpe, Sylvan Lake News, 15. Jan 2003
UK: GPs To Prescribe Heroin for Hard-Core Users The Guardian 17 May 2003 by Alan Travis
UK - Heroin on Prescription Striking Fall in Addicts' Crime The Guardian 23 May 2003
UK - Just Say No To a Drugs Policy That Doesn't Work, Column By- Polly Toynbee The Guardian 23 Apr. 2003.
Better drugs laws will cut gun crime By Mo Mowlam, The Guardian DrugNews, 9. January 2003
Brazil - A Drug Policy From Below By Al Giordano The Narco News Bulletin 27. Mar 2003
Vancouver - Canada. B.C. backs injection site, By Frances Bula ; Vancouver Sun, August 4. 2003
Prohibition as Religion - Learning from History. By Peter Webster, DrugNews, 27. March 2003
The latest drug war is just smoke and mirrors. By Andrew Lisa, The Daily Journal, March 1. 2003
Brazil’s Drug Users and Addicts Are 'Self-Organizing’ The Narco News Bulletin 28. Mar 2003 By Al Giordano
U.N. Treaties and the Legalization of Drugs. By Peter Webster, NarcoNews, March 2003
Ethan Nadelmann: Opening Plenary Speech at International Drug Policy Reform Conference, November 2011
Mexico's Narco-Epiphany: Is Calderón Suggesting the U.S. Legalize Drugs? Time Magazine, August 30, 2011.
D.E.A.'s Opium Poppy Cultivation and Heroin Processing in Southeast Asia, DEA, March 2001.
Blinkered Visions And the Tyranny of History By Brian Pengilly Oct. 2002
Before Prohibition - Authentic images from the preprohibition era when many psychotropic substances were legally available in USA and Europe, 2001
Michigan repeals strict drug law - The law was a joke, ReconsiDer Tidbit, 31 Jan 2003
The Hospice Raid And The War On Drugs, By Ethan Nadelmann, San Diego Union Tribune, 19 Sep 2002
Experts Debate Drug-Related Crime, BBC News-MAP, 18. Sep 2002
Drugs - How We Can Alter Minds, The Sunday Herald-DrugNews, 22 Sep 2002
Challenging The War On Drugs, By Brian Awehali & Silja J.A. Talvi, Santa Fe New Mexican-MAP, 29 Sep 2002
Canada - Decriminalizing Nonmedical Drug Use By J.R. Smith, Canadian Medical Association Journal, 17 Sep 2002
U.S. Should Concede Defeat In The War On Drugs, By Tom Brazaitis, St. Paul Pioner Press-MAP, 25 Sep 2002
Drug Laws Violates Human Rights, By Devin Olmstead, Medicine Hat News, 28 Sep 2002
Cannabis vs the other drugs, By Fredrick Polak, M.D., psychiatrist, NDPF, May 2001
You might think that I'm mad - But Should We Make All Drugs Legal? The Mirror UK DrugNews 5 Jan 2003
Mexico - Promising Year Ahead for New Drug Policy Reform Drug Policy Alliance 21 Jan 2003
A drug-free world let's forget it By Joep Oomen
Drug Regimes After Legal Regulation by Fredrick Polak M.D. 2002
Reefer Madness, By Bill Keller in New York Times- DrugNews, 30 Nov 2002
Big Brother Takes the T-Bird Away, By Jacob Sullum ReasonOnline,12 Nov 2002
Bush’s Reefer Madness, Salon Web-MAP, 5 Nov 2002
For Another Drug Policy, Speech By Joep Omen, at The European Social Forum Florence Italy, 7 Nov 2002
Legalization can no longer be snickered away, By Dan Gardner, The Ottawa Citizen, 5 Sep 2002
Legalisation- The First Hundred Years, A Lecture presented By Mike Jay, at a IPPR conference in London, 17 Jul 2002
Eight Steps to Effectively Controlling Drug Abuse And the Drug Market, National Coalition for Effective Drug Policies Washington, D.C. July 2002
USA. 6 Public letters 1 Columnist's Response to the film 'Traffic' MAP July 2001
American Gulag Petty Criminals Doing Hard Time By Sasha Abramsky in San Francisco Chronicle-DrugNews 24th Feb 2002
Norwegian Commission Set to Call for Decriminalization of Drug Use Possession DRCNet Weekly Feb 2.2002