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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 14, 2010
A weekly summary of what's going on in drug policy and criminal justice reform in the US & UK.
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Published in: HomeThe Cannabis Papers: a citizen’s guide to cannabinoids
Taking their inspiration from "The Federalist Papers," a group of Illinois reformers have penned a series of 36...
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Published in: oDRPoppy seed and mushrooms: Oryol's drug problems
The Oryol Region in central Russia has been fairly successful in dealing with its drug problems, but the approaches...
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Published in: oDRDiviner's Sage and Hawaiian Rose: Sakhalin's drug problems
Throwing money at a problem doesn’t always solve it. Allocations for drug control have been increased on Sakhalin,...
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Published in: HomeThe failed politics of sentencing reform
In his exceptional white paper, American drug policy expert Eric Sterling of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation...
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Published in: HomeEssential Reading on the US Prison-Industrial Complex
Three must-reads on prison and race in America
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Published in: HomePsychedelic Nostalgia: Barlow on the early days of LSD
Former Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow's reminiscences on the introduction of LSD to the American consciousness.
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Published in: HomeThe Crime of Being Poor: Class and Criminal Justice in America
A U.S. prisoner named Paul Wright has penned an extraordinary essay on the role of class in the American criminal...
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Published in: HomeA Virulent Outbreak of Rational Thought
Two UK based organizations are charting a course through the miasma of international drug policy by publishing...
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Published in: HomeThe bizarre universe of drug prohibition: an introduction to the oD Drug Policy Forum
International drug policy is at a tipping point. Emerging from a forty year repressive dark age following the...
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Published in: oDRDrug crisis on Russia’s borders
Russia’s drugs problem has reached crisis point in Orenburg Region. It borders on Central Asia and is used as a...
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Published in: HomeDrugs: towards a global tolerance regime
The once closed debate on drugs policy shows signs of opening up. But liberalisation would require the international...
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Published in: Home"Dead Time"
Criminalisation of narcotics has little impact on consumption but creates a criminal class and a professional lobby...
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Published in: oDRRussia's drugs problem: blame the West
Why is Russia resisting international help with its spiralling drugs problem, asks Susan Richards? While the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDavid Nutt and the drugs debate
How can we grow intelligent government, allowing the open input of unelected specialists, and what wuld an effective...