This post was first published here at the Huffington Post A joint contribution by: Professor Dave Bewley-Taylor Director, Global Drug Policy Observatory, Swansea University Martin Jelsma Coordinator, Transnational Institute Drugs and Democracy Programme Damon Barrett Director, International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy ___________________________________ State-level cannabis reforms, which gathered steam this month, have exposed the…Continue Reading Fatal attraction: Brownfield’s flexibility doctrine and global drug policy reform
The Long March of Ayahuasca; From the Amazon basin to UNGASS 2016
Notes on the World Ayahuasca Conference 2014 Constanza Sanchez Aviles, GDPO Research Associate & Law, Policy & Human Rights Coordinator at ICEERS Foundation The World Ayahuasca Conference (AYA2014), held in Ibiza on September 25th-27th and organized by the ICEERS Foundation gathered more than six hundred professionals and non-professionals with an interest in this psychoactive Amazonian…Continue Reading The Long March of Ayahuasca; From the Amazon basin to UNGASS 2016
SPP Prof. Julia Buxton Highlights the Great Disconnect Between Drugs and Development
This post was originally published here by the School of Public Policy at the Central European University. Julia Buxton, Professor of Comparative Politics at the School of Public Policy (SPP), outlined key conclusions from her forthcoming report on the relationship between drugs and development in a stimulating faculty research presentation on Thursday, October 16. “Drugs are…Continue Reading SPP Prof. Julia Buxton Highlights the Great Disconnect Between Drugs and Development
Pushing Treaty Limits?
By Wells Bennett This post was originally published here. Suppose the United States government helps to negotiate, and subsequently champions, certain framework treaties–ones justly viewed as imposing significant constraints on all signatories. Down the road, the United States occasionally even calls out counterparties for their looser policy innovations, when the latter push the outer boundaries of what’s…Continue Reading Pushing Treaty Limits?