Organised by the Governments of Estonia and Lithuania, the Association for Safer Drug Policies, and the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association Eliza Kurcevic, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association. What costs more? Criminalisation (prisons) or social and health services (different treatment programmes, prevention, employment benefits, social security services, etc.)? You can use the link here to vote. Here is …
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Side Event: Your Targets Impact Our Lives: Taking Stock of the Drug Free World Failures
Monica Beg: As an ethical principle all people should have the right to be involved in the decisions that affect their life. Now is the time to walk the talk. Video Presentation – ‘If we do not End the War on Drugs, the War Will End Us’ (David Subeliani, ENPUD) – We, as people who …
Side event: Criminalization and persecution vs. Health and development: The path forward
Organized by the International Drug Policy Consortium, Acción Técnica Social, Center of Studies for Law, Justice and Society, the Brazilian Drug Policy Platform, Fundación Friedrich Ebert en Colombia, Elementa, and Instituto RIA. Mariano Fusero (Remove term: RESET – Política de Drogas y Derechos Humanos): Since the end of the 90s to 2017 the prison population …
Side Event: National strategies of drugs laws for medicinal use of cannabis and its regulations
Organized by the Government of Paraguay Dr. Cesar Arce (SENAD): Reflecting on my country Paraguay and a new law for medicinal cannabis along with a research purpose. I wish to start with national policies in deregulation. These are guided by three tools for international control, built by the first planned national control of the drug, …
Side Event: CARICOM Marijuana Commission and Fair Trade Options for the Cannabis Market
Organized by the Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Transnational Institute and Intercambios Puerto Rico. Dave Bewley Taylor (Global Drug Policy Observatory): I plan to discuss the key points made of our report, and the important and pressing issues which are in many ways being overlooked in current policy debates, both regional and …
Side Event: Humanizing controlled medicines
Organized by the Center of Studies for Law, Justice and Society, the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Harm Reduction International, and Universidad de la Sabana y Observatorio Colombiano de Cuidados Paliativos Isabel Perreira (International Drug Policy Consortium): Our law in Colombia includes all services, however there is unmanaged pain for many populations which …