The regulated cultivation and trade of cannabis for recreational use is permissible on the basis of states’ positive human rights obligations. This is the result of research by Legal scholars Piet Hein van Kempen and Masha Fedorova of Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In their research Van Kempen and Fedorova concluded that the U.N.…
“Just because Americans don’t want these other drugs to be legal, however, doesn’t mean they think current drug laws are fair.” But the idea of legalizing other drugs draws little support across the political spectrum. While Republicans tended to favor legalization the least, support among Democrats and independents didn’t reach 20 percent for any drug…
“Colorado schools would be forced to allow students to use medical pot under a bill that cleared its first hurdle Monday at the state Legislature.” Colorado would be the second state after New Jersey to require schools to accommodate medical pot as long as it is in non-smokeable form and is administered by a nurse…
“But is it actually possible to draw back the harsh, punitive criminalization of drugs in America without ending up at full commercial legalization and gravely risking public health?” At the same time, there is a great interest in pulling back or eliminating some of the unintended consequences of the drug war. In the US, the…
“This is how the drug war could end. Not with a push from the developed nations that rallied the world into a global effort against drugs. But with a stand by the developing nations that have dealt with the brunt of the drug war’s costs and none of its benefits — and the domino effect…
“A rights-based approach to mental health need not pump millions of dollars into new infrastructure that will only segregate and isolate people, and focus on their “pathologies.” What they need is compassion, and a sense of being valued citizens in inclusive communities… the World Bank and World Health Organization did something that no institution of…
“It could come very quickly; the President, Attorney General or DEA Director could do it in a matter of minutes, literally. They have the authority delegated to them by Congress.” And what would that mean for the industry as a whole? If the legislature does it, that could take another decade or so. But the…
“We didn’t get into this business for Kratom. Kratom found us,” said owner Ethan Franc. Franc said customers swear the powdered leaves, used for hundreds of years in Asia, are the answer to their physical and emotional ailments. “Pain relief or getting off opioid addiction,” said Franc. “We’ve had customers use it to get off…
A mature marijuana industry could generate up to $28 billion in tax revenues for federal, state, and local governments, including $7 billion in federal revenue: $5.5 billion from business taxes and $1.5 billion from income and payroll taxes…estimated marijuana prohibition costs $3.6 billion. The debate over marijuana legalization is just one of the many ways…
“Central to Russia’s interventions was an insistence that the words “harm reduction” not be included in the document.” “Russian approaches to drug dependence are in contradiction to virtually all international scientific standards,” said Daniel Wolfe, director of the International Harm Reduction Development Program at the Open Society Foundations. “Russian narcologists — their version of drug…
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