Murder on the Land and the Sea II: Accountability for Extrajudicial Drug War Killings Is Only a Matter of Time side event for the 35th session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal ...
This is a consequential time in so many ways. One is that tomorrow morning (probably before you read this), the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court will decide whether the case against ...
As the month of June came to an end, so did the term in office of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, notorious for presiding over a bloody and still-continuing "war on drugs" that has left more ...
Dr. John Beresford died on September 2, 2007 in a hospital in Canada. British-born John Beresford began his psychedelic research interests in 1961, when he resigned his post as an Assistant Professor ...
StoptheDrugWar.org commends the arrest by Philippine authorities this morning of former President Rodrigo Duterte, under an International Criminal Court warrant served by Interpol. During his ...
What should have been a citation for drug paraphernalia gets turned into an outrageous attempt to lock a hapless drug user up for decades. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Minnesota has ...
Secretary of Defense Hegseth announces a new counter-narcotics task force in the Caribbean, Singapore again resorts to the death penalty for a drug offender, and more. Senate Republicans Block Effort ...
Read Phil's 2023 top ten domestic drug policy stories here. UN Human Rights Office Calls for Sweeping Drug Policy Reform, Considering Decriminalization and Regulation A UN human rights report released ...
A spate of fatal pot shop robberies in Washington is leading to calls to pass the SAFE Act, the Mexican military sends reinforcements to Nuevo Laredo amidst continuing clashes, and more. Federal ...
On April 3, the Taliban announced a ban on drug cultivation in Afghanistan, for years the world's dominant opium producer, accounting for more than 80 percent of the global supply of the substance, ...
The program for the Harm Reduction International Conference 2025 (HR25) is out! The conference will take place in Bogotá, Colombia on 27-30 April 2025 at the Agora Bogotá Convention Center. (And there ...
The ICC is a long and uncertain road. But this is an important first step for stopping the drug war killings, restoring rule of law, and seeking justice. We commend Ms. Bensouda for her leadership.