Amanda Feilding, Beckley Foundation | In 2012, I was invited to advise President Otto Pérez Molina. Surprising that there is very little research on the legal regulation of the end product at the heart of such devastation, cocaine. I expected the report would do for coca, cocaine and its derivatives what Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond …
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2016 Annual Parliamentary Hearing: The World Drug Problem
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Human Rights Council cross-regional statement on Drugs and Human Rights
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ECOSOC 2014 Session: Item 17 on social and human rights questions
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