The International Crisis Group warns of devastating effects for impoverished farmers impacted by the Taliban's new anti-narcotics campaign and opium ban, and calls for economic support.
Responding to expanding coca cultivation in Central America with policies like forced eradication could create potential devasting harm for communities and ecological systems.
This measure is a recent step in the country's drug policy shift, aiming to develop alternative livelihoods and establish a legal cannabis market for medical and industrial purposes.
COPOLAD publishes a study of how IADA initiatives can advance the relevance and effectiveness of alternative development in drug-affected territories beyond traditional rural contexts of illicit cultivation.
Rusenga et al. explore the inequity experienced by small-scale cannabis farmers engaged in the nascent medical cannabis market and the factors that contribute to its continued illicit cultivation in Zimbabwe.
Jamaica's cannabis regulation must shift course and priorities: from enabling corporate greed and perpetuating racial inequality, to prioritising social equity and reparations.
While it is not yet clear whether the Taliban's opium ban will remain, policymakers must consider the huge risk of increased overdose deaths in Europe if the heroin supply does dry up, and urgently begin contingency planning and delivery of interventions.
The Global Commission on Drug Policy puts forward recommendations to support effective and humane drug policy reforms that enhance peace, health, security and development in Colombia.
The Harm Reduction Consortium presents the first edition of the Global Drug Policy Index, which documents, measures and compares national-level drug policies against the UN Common Position on drugs.
