#ungass

[harmreduction]

"My problems didn't start the day I picked up a needle, they went much further back" Tuari Potiki (Ngai Tahu) New Zealand Drug Foundation. 

For International Day of Indigenous Peoples we ask you to watch (& share!) Tuari Potiki's entire address & reflect on the role colonization, dispossession & deprivation have had on drug-related harm among indigenous peoples.  

[fredwplocku]

Zapraszamy do zapoznania się z relacją z plenarnego posiedzenia przedstawicieli forum społeczeństwa obywatelskiego w sprawie narkotyków (CSF), które w dniach 7-8.11.2016 odbyło się w Brukseli. Zachęcamy do podania informacji dalej (PSPN)

[therebeleducationist]

#regulatecocain #regulatecocaine #drugreform #drugpolicy #ungass

[garudabluffs]

Trouble in Europe's Pot Paradise

“ The drug war basically started at The Hague with the signing of the International Opium Convention of 1912, the world's first international drug control treaty. The pact served as a stepping stone to the eventual establishment of the United Nations and the passage of three stringent drug control treaties that have largely determined international drug policy.” Related: Here's What to Expect at the Big Drug Meeting This Week at the UN

Though the Dutch have struck a compromise with international treaties that shows great results for reducing harm for drug users, the approach has largely shielded problems with drug crime in the Netherlands from public view.

Fighting the illicit drug market now costs the Netherlands roughly $1 billion a year. If the dollar figure were adjusted to reflect the US population, it would be $19 billion — roughly equivalent to NASA's annual budget.

RED ALERT! !! Politicians on planet Earth pass a law prohibiting the first Earthlings on Mars to declare themselves Martians,& all cannabis the free property of all citizens!”

“...people who work in the Dutch weed business can be divided into separate categories."First, the classic criminals who are trying to make a buck any way possible," she said. "Second, the pioneers who love the plant and never saw themselves as doing something wrong, then there are farmers who are trying to find a solution for their business in a bad economy, and then there are the accidental workers who were forced by life or criminals to start growing."           “In recent years,” she said [Nicole Maalsté, an independent sociologist, studies the people who work in the country's illicit drug industry] , “government crackdowns have scared off many of the pot enthusiasts while professionalizing the ones that are just in it for the money.”   11 comments             READ MORE https://news.vice.com/article/trouble-in-europes-pot-paradise-a-bloody-gang-war-is-raging-in-amsterdam

[fortune420group]

UNGASS 2016: Sir Richard Branson and 1,000 Other Leaders Plead For New Drug Policy

#MustWeed http://www.fortune420.com/ungass-2016-sir-richard-branson-and-1000-other-leaders-plead-for-new-drug-policy/

The United Nations General Assembly is running a Special Session, UNGASS 2016 in April.

The purpose is to examine (hopefully) the institution’s drug policies. Sir Richard Branson, Warren Buffet, Bernie Sanders, and 1,000 other leaders have pleaded for needed change in a powerful letter to the U.N. The UN’s positions on drugs for the last half century have been dangerously draconian[…] Full story (Marijuanapolitics.com) Continue reading: UNGASS 2016: Sir Richard Branson and 1,000 Other Leaders Plead For New Drug Policy

[itviconsultants]

Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs, From Weed To Heroin

http://dlvr.it/L5jdfL

[fortune420group]

This UN Summit Could Finally End the War on Drugs

#MustWeed http://www.fortune420.com/this-un-summit-could-finally-end-the-war-on-drugs/

Next month, the 193 member states of the United Nations will meet to talk about drugs. The last time this happened, in 1998, the summit ended with a distinctly utopian ambition: the total eradication of all drugs from the entire world. “A drug-free world—we can do it!” the summit declared. Eighteen years later, narcotics are still as popular as ever, with the UN estimating that the global number of illicit drug users will increase 25 percent by 2050[…] Full story (Vice.com) Continue reading: This UN Summit Could Finally End the War on Drugs

[kamery77]

The #UnitedNations special session on the world problem of #drugs #ungass or the world trying to make its mind about drugs and narcotics #UNHQ #ny (at General Assembly Hall UN Headquarter)