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HuffPost Canada
April 16, 2018
The National Advisory Committee for Decriminalization is an ad-hoc coalition made up of individuals from across Canada. The collective is comprised of healthcare and medical professionals, grassroots overdose prevention organizers, people with lived experience of overdose risk/death for self, family,Ãâà...
Vox
April 16, 2018
A drug policy expert not involved with the study cautioned that the findings do not mean that the reformulation of OxyContin (or other extended-release opioids) was a bad idea — it did, after all, appear to make an addictive drug less prone to misuse. But the new research suggests that when it comes toÃâà...
Yardbarker
April 14, 2018
Mark Sanchez's NFL career appears to be on life support. The NFL announced Friday that Sanchez has been suspended for the first four games of the 2018 season after violating the league's PED policy. Free agent Mark Sanchez has been suspended without pay for the first four games of the 2018 regularÃâà...
Chron.com
April 14, 2018
A former Texas City employee filed a federal lawsuit this week against the city and Mayor Matthew Doyle, accusing the city of wrongful termination and violating her due process rights after she refused to take a random drug test. The plaintiff, Michelle Garcia, claims the test violated her constitutional rightsÃâà...
The Hill
April 9, 2018
Regardless of how much evidence the U.N. entities provide and call for reforms, they will not take place at the multilateral level until a P5 country such as the United States decides to take interest in the highly-needed international drug policy reform. If it did, it would allow states to move with their reformsÃâà...
Sports Illustrated
April 3, 2018
Dallas Mavericks center Nerlens Noel and Utah Jazz forward Thabo Sefolosha of the Utah Jazz have been suspended five games each for violating the NBA's anti-drug policy, the league announced. Noel's suspension will begin tonight against the Portland Trail Blazers. Noel is averaging 4.4 points, 5.6Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 30, 2018
As more countries move away from drug prohibition, Indonesia is about to step up its efforts to defend it. Proposed revisions to the country's criminal code promote harsh penalties for the use and possession of narcotics - including society's ultimate sanction, the death penalty - instead of a health-orientedÃâà...
New Haven Independent
March 23, 2018
Prompted by city lawyers, the New Haven Police Department turned over a copy of its new two-page hiring guidelines — with almost every line about drug use whited out. Feel like helping to fill in the blanks? The heavily redacted two-page document, New Haven Department of Police Service EmploymentÃâà...
Stuff.co.nz
March 23, 2018
"That is heading in the war-on-drugs direction which isn't going to work, but going to a select committee to a bill is one thing, it's what will come out the other end," Clark said. "And I think all the people who know about drug policy, who know what's happening around the world, need to come to the [select]Ãâà...
World Politics Review
March 23, 2018
In an email interview, Gernot Klantschnig, a senior lecturer at the University of York and the author of several books and articles on drug policy and trafficking in Nigeria and other parts of Africa, discusses the problems that drugs pose in Nigeria, how the government's strict response has evolved, and howÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 22, 2018
Legal and drug policy experts say decades of experience during the war on drugs has shown that harsher sentences will do little to solve the runaway surge ... Rosalie Pacula, co-director of the Rand Drug Policy Research Center, said researchers have found that stiffer prosecutions were not as effective asÃâà...
The Independent
March 22, 2018
One of the letter's signatories, Steve Rolles, a senior policy analyst at the Transform Drug Policy Foundation, told The Independent the reforms should inspire change in the UK. He said that decriminalisation approaches were "more than just a change in the law, they need to be part of a wider reorientationÃâà...
The Nation.
March 22, 2018
According to an analysis by the Drug Policy Alliance, media mentions of drug-induced homicide prosecutions rose by over 300 percent between 2011 and 2016, suggesting that law enforcement is increasingly relying on them in response to opiate overdose deaths. In Pennsylvania, such cases haveÃâà...
Vox
March 22, 2018
As Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at the Marron Institute at New York University, previously told me, “We did the experiment. In 1980, we had about 15,000 people behind bars for drug dealing. And now we have about 450,000 people behind bars for drug dealing. And the prices of all major drugs areÃâà...
Splinter (blog)
March 20, 2018
President Jabba the Hutt Donald Trump has made a number of terrible suggestions on how to end the debilitating opioid crisis, including giving drug dealers the death penalty and just teaching children not to do drugs. Today, he went to New Hampshire, where he added some more big ideas to his list.
YubaNet
March 20, 2018
“This approach is also disturbingly reminiscent of the war on drugs, which set back American drug policy decades, and codified harm to black and brown people — laws we have just begun to reverse. And like the war on drugs — with a focus on extreme punishments instead of the root causes of drug useÃâà...
Politico
March 7, 2018
President Donald Trump's former liaison to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, who was pushed out after questions surfaced about his lack of experience, has joined the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Taylor Weyeneth will serve as a mid-level official in the office of CommunityÃâà...
Inside Higher Ed
March 7, 2018
Students for Sensible Drug Policy was originally formed in response to the FAFSA question on student drug convictions. The group won a significant victory in 2006 when the aid restrictions were scaled back by Congress. Executive Director Betty Aldworth said HEA reauthorization is a chance to push for itsÃâà...
Press Herald
March 7, 2018
“The benefits of at least reconsidering the drug policy on behalf of an employer would be pretty high,” said Jeremy Kidd, a professor at Mercer Law School, who wrote a paper on the economics of workplace drug testing. “A blanket prohibition can't possibly be the most economically efficient policy.”.
Voice of America
March 7, 2018
Authorities in Myanmar have taken action to tackle the country's decades-long issue with narcotics, by announcing a new drug policy that has been praised for being one of the first in Southeast Asia that takes an evidence-based approach to the issue, and focuses on the needs of the biggest victims of theÃâà...
TAPinto.net
March 6, 2018
Paterson, NJ - The Passaic County Drug Policy Advisory Committee will be holding its second public meeting at St. Joseph's Wayne Medical Center. The Passaic County Drug Policy Advisory Committee was formed in August of 2017 to help create a comprehensive approach to the opioid epidemic.
WUWM
March 6, 2018
Hannah Hetzer is the Senior International Policy Manager for the New York-based Drug Policy Alliance. She joins Lake Effect's Mitch Teich to talk about harm reduction drug policy, a philosophy on public health that focuses on fact-based drug education and intervention policies meant to reduce the injuriesÃâà...
San Mateo Daily Journal
March 6, 2018
The district's new drug policy nods to Scatena's sentiment, as students who may have previously been immediately suspended after getting caught with pot at school are now required to enroll in after-school drug education program. Under a system implemented last fall, first offenders are mandated toÃâà...
New Haven Independent
March 6, 2018
The meeting was called to approve a new hiring policy, specifically a new drug policy, city lawyers later revealed. But the department brass won't say what changed. The commissioners discussed the policy in executive session, and they voted to approve the policy without revealing what they were votingÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 31, 1999
Polanco, 24, was suspended 80 games for violating Major League Baseball's drug policy. He tested positive for the drug stanozolol, a performance-enhancing substance. If that sounds familiar, there's a good reason why. Righthander Ervin Santana served the same suspension for testing positive for theÃâà...
Live Trading News
December 31, 1999
Federal Judge Throws Out Marijuana Rescheduling Case. A US district court judge in Manhattan has thrown out the latest lawsuit challenging marijuana's scheduling under the Controlled Substances Act. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ruled Monday that plaintiffs should use administrative remedies toÃâà...
