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Documents about the role drugs play in politics and (inter)national conflicts.

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A Brief History of Cannabis Policies in Spain (1968-2003) (Gamela et al, 2004)

Left click: open entry/Right click: save entry

Originally published in The Journal of Drug Issues

Looks at drug laws and drug-policies that have been implemented in Spain in their demographic, political and economic context

Submitted by Jatelka

28-10-2007
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Keywords: policy cannabis

A Lost Mandate: The Public Calls for a New Direction in Afghan Counter-Narcotics Policies (2007)

A Senlis Council publication

Polling results in the UK, Canada and The Netherlands:

81% support Poppy for Medicine pilot projects
74% oppose chemical spraying of poppy fields
74% would use Afghan-Made Morphine

Submitted by Jatelka

01-03-2008
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Keywords: drug-policy opium

Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008

The Afghanistan Opium Survey is implemented annually by the United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime (UNODC) and since 2003, in collaboration with the Afghan Government. The survey
team collects and analyses information on the location and extent of opium cultivation, potential
opium production...

Submitted by Lunar Loops

28-11-2008
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American Drug War Economics - Volume 1

Ending drug prohibition and focusing on addiction as a sickness, like alcohol and prescription drugs, could save the U.S. economy and millions of lives. Please pass this video on to as many people as you can. We need your help to end the Drug War.

Produced by Kevin Booth and Ryan Kaye
...

Submitted by Lunar Loops

08-12-2008
Hits 19

Coca Yes, Cocaine, No? (2006)

A Drugs and Conflict Debate Paper

Overview of Coca, Historical Use and the history of Coca/Cocaine Politics and Policies

Submitted by Jatelka

20-12-2007
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Keywords: coca cocaine policy

Cocaine/Heroin Bust at JFK Airport

1 min
16 October 2007
CNN

Short clip concerning a drug bust in which homeland security is referenced as helping stop drug trafficking.

Discussion Thread

See also News Coverage Videos About Drugs

Submitted by Perception Addict

16-10-2007
Hits 88
Keywords: bust law-enforcement cocaine trafficking importing heroin feds

Conscription in the War on Drugs: Recent reforms to the U.S. drug certification process

The use of a listing and certification process has been a critical part of coercive strategies used by the United States (U.S.) to further its
drug control policies internationally. Through this process, the U.S. has conscripted drug-producing and drug-transiting states into the War
on Drugs....

Submitted by Alfa

03-09-2007
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Crop spraying: a deja vu debate. From the Andean strategy to the Afghan strategy (2007)

Transnational Institute
Drug Policy Briefing No 25

Fascinating look at the failure of the crop-spraying programme in S America, and argument against implementing a similar programme in Afghanistan

Discussion Thread

Submitted by Jatelka

26-09-2008
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Deep Evenys by Peter Dale Scott

Recently I published two articles pointing to suggestive similarities between the recurring deep events in recent American history -- those events which, because of their intelligence aspects, are ignored, misrepresented, or covered up in the American media. The first article pointed to...

Submitted by Spucky

16-07-2009
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Details of Ten Specific Rights of Drug Users

For reference use.

Details of ten rights that a drug user in the EU should be entitled to.

Source: R. Newcombe (2007). Second Class Citizens: discrimination against drug users. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Diversity in Communities, Organisations and Nations; ...

Submitted by CandiGirl

30-04-2008
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Drug Trafficking: Perspectives from Europe, Latin America and the United States (2005)

Fascinating document, looks at the politics of the war on drugs

Submitted by Jatelka

08-10-2007
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Keywords: war-on-drugs trafficking politics

Drug Use in Ireland and Northern Ireland 2006/2007 Drug Prevalence Survey: Cannabis Results

This bulletin provides a comprehensive overview of many different aspects of cannabis use in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It presents data relating to cannabis use on a lifetime (ever used), last year (recent use) and last month (current use) basis and compares these results with 2002/3 data. The...

Submitted by Lunar Loops

12-12-2008
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Drugs in the UN system: The Unwritten History of the 1998 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs

The ‘‘international community’’ presented an apparent unanimity in its endorsement of prohibitive drug control at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs in 1998. The reality is that there is a longstanding conflict within the UN system between nations wanting to...

Submitted by Bajeda

26-03-2007
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Keywords: drug

Dutch Ministry of Health "Guidelines for Cultivating Cannabis for Medicinal Purposes"

Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. "Guidelines for Cultivating Cannabis for Medicinal Purposes [Voorschriften voor de Verbouw van Cannabis voor Medicinale Doeleinden]" Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics 2003(2):51-61
Annex to the Regulation of the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport of 9...

Submitted by moda00

02-03-2008
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EMCDDA 2008 Annual report: the state of the drugs problem in Europe

The report on the state of the drugs problem in Europe presents the EMCDDA's yearly overview of the drug phenomenon. This is an essential reference book for policymakers, specialists and practitioners in the drugs field or indeed anyone seeking the latest findings on drugs in Europe. Published...

Submitted by Lunar Loops

06-11-2008
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Equasy -- An overlooked addiction with implications for the current debate on drug harms (2009)

Journal of Psychopharmacology 2009 Jan;23(1):3-5

David Nutt

An editorial from the chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, comparing the dangers of MDMA and horse riding

Discussion Thread

See also Ecstasy (MDMA, MDEA, MDA) Documents

Submitted by Jatelka

05-03-2009
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Free Trade and Illegal Drugs: Will NAFTA Transform the United States Into the Netherlands?

French, Taylor W. Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law v. 38 no2 (March 2005) p. 501-40.

Submitted by Bajeda

27-01-2008
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Keywords: drug law policy trade netherlands

From the War on Drugs to a War on Subculture: Media, Law & the Future of Rave

This thesis seeks to explore the subculture known as rave, the various news media texts which are concerned with rave culture, and the consequences of these texts on both public opinion and government legislation regarding rave.
Chapter 1 discusses youth culture studies in general and defines...

Submitted by ~lostgurl~

17-11-2007
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Keywords: media war raves law government

Futility in Action: Coca Fumigation in Columbia (Sherrett, 2005)

Originally published in the Journal of Drug Issues

Looks at the US's influence in Columbia

Submitted by Jatelka

28-10-2007
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Keywords: coca cocaine policy war-on-drugs

Globalization and the price decline of illicit drugs. (2009)

International Journal of Drug Policy 2009 Jan;20(1):48-61

Costa Storti C, De Grauwe P

BACKGROUND: This study aims at understanding the mechanisms underlying the dramatic decline of the retail prices of major drugs like cocaine and heroin during the past two decades. It also aims at...

Submitted by Jatelka

23-01-2009
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Impact Assessment of Crop Eradication in Afghanistan and Lessons Learned from Latin America and South East Asia (2006)

Senlis Council publication

Looks at the impact of opium poppy eradication in afghanistan, and compares it to eradication in SE Asia, as well as coca eradication in Soth America

Submitted by Jatelka

01-03-2008
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Keywords: opium drug-policy

Inarcerated women and drug abuse: An international perspective

The Journal of the Institue of Justice and International Studies: Vol 7

Judith Grant

Fascinating overview of Drug Policy, with respect to women, in Canada and the US

Discussion Thread

Submitted by Jatelka

02-09-2009
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Licensing Afghanistan’s opium: solution or fallacy?

For almost two decades Afghanistan has been the world’s largest illicit opium producer.
Decades of war, droughts, poverty, and political incapabilities have driven up the country’s
opium production despite counter-narcotics programmes ranging from forced eradication to
alternative development....

Submitted by Lunar Loops

31-05-2008
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Losing Ground: Drug Control in War in Afghanistan (2006)

Transnational Institute Debate Paper, No 15

Everything published here is thought provoking (search for Transnational Institute)

This is about the explosion in opium production

Discussion Thread

Submitted by Jatelka

30-09-2008
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MDMA ("ecstasy"): A Review Of It's Harms And Classification Under The Misuse Of Drugs Act 1971

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs report on MDMA, recommending downgrading to Class B

Discussion Thread

See also Ecstasy (MDMA, MDEA, MDA) Documents

Submitted by Jatelka

05-03-2009
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MIT Course Outline - Drugs, Politics & Culture

Examines the relationship between drugs, politics, and society in cross-cultural perspective; use of mind-altering and habit-forming substances by "traditional societies"; the development of a global trade in sugar, opium, and cocaine with the rise of capitalism; and the use and abuse of alcohol,...

Submitted by ~lostgurl~

25-09-2007
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Keywords: war tobacco study smoking prozac politics opium opiates nicotine lsd law e-book cocaine alcohol acid abuse antidepressant culture

National Amphetamine Type Stimulant Strategy 2008-2011 (Australia)

In May 2006 the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy (MCDS) agreed to develop a National Amphetamine-Type Stimulant Strategy.

The aim of the ATS Strategy is to:
Reduce the availability and demand for illicit amphetamine-type stimulants and prevent
use and harms across the Australian...

Submitted by Lunar Loops

24-09-2008
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Normalizing the Drug Economies: Colombia's Legalization Debate.

Tokatlian, Juan G. NACLA Report on the Americas v. 36 no2 (Sept./Oct. 2002) p. 38-43.

Submitted by Bajeda

27-01-2008
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Keywords: drug-legalization columbia economy

Poppies For Peace: Reforming Afghanistan's Opium Industry (2006)

The Washington Quarterly 30:1 pp. 69-81

Peter van Ham and Jorrit Kamminga

Submitted by Jatelka

24-02-2008
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Keywords: drug-policy opium afghanistan

Poppy for Medicine: Licensing poppy for the production of essential medicines: An integrated counter-narcotics, development and counter-insurgency model for Afghanistan (2007)

A Senlis Council publication

Submitted by Jatelka

01-03-2008
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Keywords: drug-policy opium

Prisons and Drugs: A global view of incarceration, drug use and drug services (2007)

The Beckley Foundation, June 2007

Kate Dolan, Effat Merghati Khoei, Cinzia Brentari and Alex Stevens

Looks at the international prevalence of drug users, drug use and drug-related problems in prison

Goes on to examine the international guidelines and effective responses that have been...

Submitted by Jatelka

01-06-2009
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Producing Cannabis in Africa South of the Sahara: A review of OGD findings in the 1990s

Paper by Laurent Laniel delivered at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, on 23rd May 2006.

"Understanding the cannabis economy in Africa means above all studying problems of economic and political development. Cannabis highlights the failure of development aid and the side effects, which...

Submitted by Expat98

01-06-2008
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Regulating Khat: Dilemmas and Opportunities (2008)

Discussion Thread

See also Khat Documents

Submitted by Jatelka

29-09-2008
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Rethinking U.S.-Latin American Relations (Brookings Institution Report)

Rethinking U.S.-Latin American Relations

Brookings Institution Report
November, 2008

This report urges U.S. President-elect Obama to, among other things, lift all restrictions on travel to Cuba by U.S, citizens and take other steps to ease the nearly 50-year-old U.S. embargo against Havana,...

Submitted by Expat98

27-11-2008
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Return to Galileo? The Inquisition of the International Narcotic Control Board (2008)

Harm Reduction Journal 2008 May 7;5(1):16

Small D, Drucker E

ABSTRACT: Nearly 400 years after Galileo Galilei of Florence was arraigned and convicted of suspected heresy by the ten member Congregation of the Holy Office (Inquisition), the International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) is...

Submitted by Jatelka

04-06-2008
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Shan-Report June 09

This publication is the 5th in the series of the Shan Herald’s drug watch program, following our previous
reports:
◆ Show Business: Rangoon's War on Drugs in Shan State (2003)
◆ Finding Neverland: The story of Yawngkha (2005)
◆ Hand in Glove: The Burma Army and the drug trade in Shan State...

Submitted by Spucky

20-08-2009
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Tajikistan: The rise of a narco-state (2007)

Journal of Drug Issues; Fall 2007; 37, 4

Letizia Paoli; Irina Rabkov; Victoria A Greenfield; Peter Reuter

Submitted by Jatelka

12-04-2008
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The Consumption of Khat and Other Drugs in Somali Combatants: A Cross-Sectional Study (2007)

PLoS Medicine 2007 Dec;4(12):e341

Odenwald M, Hinkel H, Schauer E, Neuner F, Schauer M, Elbert TR, Rockstroh B.

For more than a decade, most parts of Somalia have not been under the control of any type of government. This “failure of state” is complete in the central and southern regions...

See also By Country/Region Documents Khat Documents

Submitted by Bajeda

10-01-2008
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Keywords: military polysubstance war khat ptsd drug-use

The Economic Feasability of Licensed Opium Production for the Production of Medicines in Afghanistan

Unsure of the publication date for this

A Senlis Council publication

"If raw opium was transformed into morphine within Afghanistan and sold at current retail prices, a test crop of 5 metric tons would be worth more than US $8.5 million"

Submitted by Jatelka

01-03-2008
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Keywords: drug-policy opium

The Road To Plan Mexico

2 Nov 2007
Blog Reload

A fantastic visual guide to the U.S. Drug War in Mexico

See also Various

Submitted by ~lostgurl~

24-11-2007
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Keywords: government law war

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