Drug War Chronicle

La semana pasada, la ONU anunció que la producción afgana de adormideras ha aumentado otra vez. Ahora, aumenta la presión para combatirla con la fumigación aérea y por más envolvimiento de los militares occidentales, pero los expertos dicen que eso no va a dar en nada.

En el movimiento pro reforma de las políticas de drogas, nosotros tenemos tantas buenas razones en insistir que es difícil saber por dónde empezar cuando conversamos con la gente sobre ellas. Cuando tengamos éxito en acabar con la prohibición, el mundo será un lugar mejor de maneras que son urgentemente necesarias.

Tierney blog on legalization and pain prosecutions, Transnational Institute on Colombian coca and Afghan opium, drug offense death penalties as international human rights violation, net Asian Drug Users Network, DrugTruth Network update.

A major gathering of drug reform forces is planned for late this year, and special registration rates are available for those who plan early.

Apply for an internship at DRCNet for this fall (or spring), and you could spend the semester fighting the good fight!

We in the drug reform movement have so many good reasons to stand on, that it is hard to know where to begin when telling people about them. When we succeed in ending prohibition, the world will become a better place, in ways that are urgently needed.

The UN announced last week that Afghan opium production had increased yet again. Now, pressures to combat it with aerial spraying and increased Western military involvement are mounting, but the experts say that's a path to nowhere.

The science of methamphetamine is contested terrain. Here, occasional contributor John Calvin Jones dissects a recent piece of methamphetamine research and finds it lacking.

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The International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD) of the Open Society Institute (OSI) is offering small grants to support the collection and presentation of information that evaluate the health and human rights consequences, with regard to injection drug use-driven HIV infections, of the resolutions taken at the 1998 UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs.