Branwen Lloyd* At the end of summer 2019 the GDPO was successful in an application to Swansea University’s Higher Education Funding Council for Wales – Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) scheme. The GCRF is a £1.5 billion fund announced by the UK Government in 2015 to support cutting-edge research that addresses the challenges faced by…Continue Reading Cultivating Change: The Contemporary Challenges of Studying Cannabis Regulation in Jamaica
Drugs, Prisons and ‘Unintended Consequences’ – Does drug interdiction drive drug-related harms?
Rick Lines, Olivia Howells and Daniel Webb* The availability of drugs in prisons around the world is well documented. In Europe alone, up to seventy percent of people in prison have used an illicit drug. In Canada, forty-eight percent of prisoners in federal correctional institutions have had ‘problems’ with drugs. In Australia, one in six…Continue Reading Drugs, Prisons and ‘Unintended Consequences’ – Does drug interdiction drive drug-related harms?
Nowhere to hide: It’s high time we measured countries’ performance in drug policy
By Marie Nougier IDPC Head of Research and Communications & Dave Bewley-Taylor, GDPO Director First published here by IPDC, October 2019 Traditionally, the UN and governments have measured progress in drug policy in terms of flows and scale; principally the numbers of people arrested, hectares of drug crops eradicated and the amounts of drugs seized. For years now, IDPC and…Continue Reading Nowhere to hide: It’s high time we measured countries’ performance in drug policy
What have the Russians done for us in the international drug policy field? A timely reminder to take back control
Axel Klein, GDPO Senior Research Associate. April 24, 2019. At the 62nd meeting of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in March this year the tensions between states with widely diverging drug policies finally came to the surface. On the floor of the plenary meeting the Russian delegation took Canada to task for ‘violating…Continue Reading What have the Russians done for us in the international drug policy field? A timely reminder to take back control
The Psychoactive Consumer and International Drug Policy: A Sweeping Sketch
The Psychoactive Consumer and International Drug Policy: A Sweeping Sketch Christopher Hallam, PhD GDPO Research Associate The role of the consumer, in its complexity and diversity, is often marginalised in analyses of drug policy. Of course, it is obvious that consumers play a part – if nobody were smoking, injecting, drinking or otherwise consuming psychoactive…Continue Reading The Psychoactive Consumer and International Drug Policy: A Sweeping Sketch
Better to Ask Forgiveness than Permission: Spain’s Sub-National Approach to Drug Policy
Better to Ask Forgiveness Than Permission: What the rest of the world can learn from Spain’s approaches to drug policy The movement for drug policy reform is a global one – and it has become increasingly important to look at what other countries are doing on drug policy to see what can be learned. Portugal’s…Continue Reading Better to Ask Forgiveness than Permission: Spain’s Sub-National Approach to Drug Policy
GDPO collaboration with Central European University on MPA student project
As part of its mission to provide dug policy research and publication opportunities for postgraduates and early career scholars, over the course of the past year the Global Drug Policy Observatory has been pleased to have worked with three second year students studying on the Master of Public Administration (MPA) course at the School of…Continue Reading GDPO collaboration with Central European University on MPA student project
Measuring Drug Policy Outcomes: Intersections with Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The following blog was first posted by Nazlee Maghsoudi, ICSDP, 07/05/2018 Original link; http://www.icsdp.org/measuring_drug_policy_outcomes_intersections_with_human_rights_and_the_sustainable_development_goals_sdgs For the sixth consecutive year, a side event was held at the 61st Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to continue the global discussion on reprioritizing the objectives and indicators used to evaluate drug policies. Pic 1Recent years have…Continue Reading Measuring Drug Policy Outcomes: Intersections with Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Yes, legalizing marijuana breaks treaties. We can deal with that.
By John Walsh, Tom Blickman, Martin Jelsma and Dave Bewley-Taylor This Op-Ed was originally published in iPolitics on December 11th, 2017 Buzzing in the background of Canada’s debate on cannabis legalization is the issue of the three UN drug control treaties, and what to do with them. The issue arose during the House of Commons’…Continue Reading Yes, legalizing marijuana breaks treaties. We can deal with that.
View from the Ground – Harm reduction, drug policy and the law in the Maghreb: focus on Tunisia and Mauritania
View from the Ground – Harm reduction, drug policy and the law in the Maghreb: focus on Tunisia and Mauritania Khalid Tinasti Honorary Research Associate, Swansea University July 2017 Introduction: The Maghreb countries – Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia – while seldom discussed, are crucial to global debates on drug control policies. These countries…Continue Reading View from the Ground – Harm reduction, drug policy and the law in the Maghreb: focus on Tunisia and Mauritania