“Look at the Dutch example!” That phrase has become a kind of mantra, chanted whenever the advocates of liberalizing drug laws in Europe or the [...]

The International Narcotics Control Board is associated with the United Nations and, as the name implies, oversees the International Conventions on Narcotic Drugs. Here is an article from their website (www.incb.org) which states that they view drug. The explicit or tacit approval of so called drug injection rooms [...]

There has been mounting pressure in recent times to “re classify,” decriminalise, or legalise cannabis. Sources include the UK based Police Federation (no connection to the Police), Paul McCartney (ex Beatle and along with his late wife Linda, also a cannabis user), Anita Roddick (Body Shop selling Hemp products) [...]

On How The War On Terrorism Affects Drug Control Efforts:
“You hear different opinions about this. The reason you hear different opinions is that we don’t have perfect knowledge of what is actually flowing so sometimes it is hard to tell the difference on the street level for some period of time because there is a [...]

Professor J.P. Shepherd of the Violence Research Group at the University of Wales in the UK, published the results of his study “Criminal deterrence as a public health strategy” in the November 17, 2001 issue of The Lancet.
The study looked at individuals who commit violence or endanger others while under the influence of alcohol. Shepherd [...]

Iowa State University researchers have calculated that brief family intervention programs designed to discourage teen drinking are both beneficial and cost-effective. Their study found that each dollar spent on intervention programs for adolescents was returned many times over in savings by preventing future costs associated with alcohol problems in adulthood.
The research, published in the Journal [...]

By Gladys Pollack
Some twenty-four years ago, the Dutch government embarked upon an innovative experiment, a tolerant “soft drug” policy, whose repercussions today are wide-ranging
BACK IN 1976, the Dutch Parliament liberalized its policy towards drug use, a policy differing broadly from that of its European neighbours. The new drug legislation differentiated drugs such as heroin, cocaine [...]

By Robert B. Charles

Theme: Any one with energy to devote to drug policy, should be dedicating it to helping educate kids not to get into the nightmare of drug use and addiction – full stop. To advocate for legalizing dangerous and addictive substances, whether they are more addictive or less addictive, damage the brain in [...]

By Donald R. Vereen, Jr

All of us in the Office of National Drug Control Policy thank the Committee for the opportunity to testify today about “medical marijuana” and national drug control policy. The Administration has actively and consistently opposed marijuana legalization initiatives in all jurisdictions throughout the nation. Our steadfast opposition is based on the [...]

By Jane Chastain
One-fifth of our states have passed ballot initiatives that are chipping away at the nation’s drug laws. Some 24 states permit voters to participate in the initiative process and this is where the drug legalization battle is being waged. The initiative process was originally designed to give ordinary citizens a voice in proposing [...]