Afghanistan. From battlefields to CBD: can hemp pioneer wean Afghanistan off opium? Oil from the versatile plant makes cannabis medicine CBD and its fibre has a range of uses but the Taliban need convincing. (The Guardian, UK, 22.07.2022) https://…

UK. Government plans to criminalise all drug users - Swift, Certain, Tough The Home Office has just published a white paper dedicated to the one issue in the new 10 year drug strategy which has generated the most media interest – reducing dema…

Schottland. Changing Lives - Final Report Over the last three years, we in the Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce have listened to the voices of people from across Scotland and beyond with lived and living experience of using drugs, families, service p…

EMCDDA becomes official partner of COPOLAD III  Today, the EMCDDA becomes an official partner of COPOLAD III (1), a programme promoting dialogue and bi-regional cooperation on drug policy between the European Union and Latin American and Carib…

UK. British drugs policy is punitive and contradictory. And now it’ll go backwards While other countries are abandoning a failed ‘war on drugs’, in its final days the Johnson administration is doubling down. (The Guardian, UK, 21.07.2022) https://…

USA. Süchtig nach Schmerzmitteln - Die Opioid-Krise in den USA (Video) Mittlerweile lässt sich die Opioid-Krise - der knapp 200.000 Todesfälle in den USA zugerechnet werden - nicht mehr als rein amerikanisches Phänomen verdrängen. Auch in Deutschla…