Time to wake up – Time to get busy – Time to step up – Make ‘em go tizzy Peter Ferentzy holds a Ph.D. in Social and…
Three drug policy stories to watch in 2012
Insite opens the door North America’s only sanctioned safe injection facility was the big news story of 2011. The September 30, 2011 Canadian supreme court decision in…
Calling for community health and safety in BC.
This fall the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition joined the recently formed Stop the Violence Coalition BC (STVBC), a coalition of law enforcement officials, legal experts, public health…
Sir Richard Branson: ‘Time to end the war on drugs’
Ten years ago the Portuguese Government responded to widespread public concern over drugs by rejecting a “war on drugs” approach and instead decriminalized drug possession and use….
Count the Cost Report: The War on Drugs: Creating crime, enriching criminals
Far from eliminating drug use and the illicit trade, prohibition has inadvertently fuelled the development of the world’s largest illegal commodities market – a market worth hundreds…
Book Review – A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America
by Craig Jones Former Executive Director, The John Howard Society of Canada. A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America By Ernest Drucker The…
Omnibus passes – but don’t throw away the key!
Bill C-10 , the Safe Streets and Communities Act passed in parliament with a majority vote of 157 to 127. It now moves to the senate. The…
World AIDS Day
UNAIDS has a new five year strategy for Getting to Zero. Zero transmission and zero new HIV infections globally. This is an incredible challenge considering there are 34…
B.C. physicians issue report on drug policy and law reform
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 by David Eby (Reposted with permission) It’s hard to imagine an area more difficult for politicians talk about than drug policy reform. Maybe…
