GLOBAL
AFGHAN OPIUM
- Taliban opium ban reduced production 95%
- U.N. Warns less opium means more fentanyl
- Myanmar opium production surging
PHILIPPINE DEATH SQUADS
- Reabilitaion used as euphemism to cover abuses
- Duterte acknowledges death squad
- Garma’s Account
- Witnesses wanted: ICC
MEXICO VIOLENCE
- ‘No return to drug war’ according to new president
- The myth of the ‘Cartel’
- Sinaloa Cartel infighting
- El Mayo pleads ‘not guilty’
- Civilians targeted to create illusion of military effectiveness
- Columbian Cocaine Crossover
Policy and Enforcement
Ontario needs new opioid strategy: auditor general
What direction will U.S. drug policy take in new Trump term?
B.C. overdose prevention sites encounter roadblocks
Global Commission on Drug Policy issues new report
What Joe Biden’s parden of Hunter Biden says about privilege and consequence
B.C.’s mental health and addictions ministry was not set up to succeed
Hospital CEO speaks out against involuntary treatment
The debate on involuntary treatment’s effectiveness
DEA accosting innocent civilians at airports
Largest superlab in Canadian history terminated by RCMP
International coordinated law enforcement effort upends cocaine-exporting operation
3 Ontarian Mushroom production operations halted
Drug war provides cover to advance war against women’s reproductive freedom: U.S.
Western Canada’s regressive policy direction
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Prohibition’s Causes and Consequences
The counter-productivity of drug seizures
U.S. taxpayers subsidise global violence via drug war: report
Escalating human disappearances in Sinaloa
Fentanyl producers seek to recruit chemistry students
Treatment tourism? Thailand-based services filling in B.C.’s gaps
The rise of the inaptly-named “pink cocaine”
UK Fatalities spur harm reduction calls
Drug war enables exploitation of youth: Marseille
The religious ideology of prohibition
Coca cultivation on the rise in Central America
Drug war harms felt beyond human society: Jaguars
CANNABIS
Patients with arthritis find relief in cannabis consumption
DEA begins hearings on cannabis rescheduling
2021 PEI vape sales policy amended
Californian cannabis policy works to detriment of small-scale farmers
FDA gives green light to research on treating PTSD via cannabis
Could the majority of U.S. states have legal cannabis after Nov 5, 2024?
The ameliorative effect of cannabinoids on nerve pain
Harris promises federal cannabis legalization
Reform on the horizon in Florida?
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Softer and Grey Market Alternatives
A new source of CBD: a ‘weed’ that is not cannabis
The status and trajectory of Kratom in the United States
Thai FDA loosens Kratom Policy
Coca-Cola punches down on Indigenous producer’s accurately named beverage
Delhi Speakeasy adopts unconventional cocktail menu
Will Bolivia’s coca beer take off?
Kava’s popularity in Minnesota
DRUG WAR MEDIA
• Filter Magazine
• Drug War Chronicle
• Drug Action Network
• Drug Policy Alliance
• Drug Truth Network
• Media Awareness Project
• Indy Bay: Drug War News
• Politico: War On Drugs
• Fox News: Mexican Cartel Violence
• Huffington Post: Drug War
• Newsweek: Drug War
• Wired: Drug War
• Al Jazeera: Drugs
• Arab News: Drug War
• Global News Canada: War on Drugs
• Reuters: Narcotics
• AP News: Drug Cartels
• The Conversation: Mexican Drug Wars
DRUG USERS & POLICY
• Drug User Liberation Front
• Moms Stop the Harm
• Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
• Vancouver Overdose Prevention Society
• Students for Sensible Drug Policy
• Global Commission on Drug Policy
• The MySafe Project
• Transnational Institute: Drugs & Democracy
COCA LEAF & COCAINE
• Coca Leaf Cafe
• Coca Museum Bolivia
• Coca Museum Cusco
• Coca leaf: Myths and Reality
STATS & FIGURES
• Global stats on overdoses, drug use
• US Heroin Deaths 1999-2019
• Canada overdose deaths by province 2019
• B.C. Overdose death statistics reports
• Europe drug use stats
• Europe overdose death stats
DRUG CHECKING SERVICES
• Get Your Drugs Tested
• Over 50,000 Drug Analysis Results Database
• The Loop: UK
• Reagent Testing Resource
• Energy Control: Drug Checking Service Europe and International