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As the UN is seeking greater drug policy coherence, including via the implementation of the UN System Common Position, it is urgent that drug policy becomes better aligned with other crucial UN priorities, including protecting the environment, conserving nature, tackling climate change and upholding the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

This side event explored how punitive drug policies have empowered organised crime and accelerated environmental degradation, and proposed concrete recommendations to ensure that UN and national drug policies can support – instead of undermine – efforts made by the international community to protect the environment.

15:56 Dave Bewley-Taylor, Global Drug Policy Observatory

This GDPO Policy Brief is intended to inform policy-makers, practitioners, and other actors of the latest developments – and likely future direction – of Drug Cryptomarkets (DCM). It draws together several complementary active research strands to provide a timely trend analysis of the current and future state of the DCM landscape, clarifies the impact of a decade of counter-DCM policy and enforcement strategy on market development, and proposes suggestions for future enforcement strategies and wider policy guidance for the coming decade.

Read the full Policy Brief: Drug Cryptomarkets in the 2020s: Policy, Enforcement, Harm, and Resilience

Despite recent increases in Russian and Chinese markets and vendors, much analysis of DCM policy and enforcement operations has been largely focused on English language markets either located in, or serving, buyers in North West Europe, North America, and Australasia. However, the Republic of Korea (ROK) has been quietly developing – in conjunction with domestic academic and corporate partners – highly sophisticated counter-crypto capabilities.  How – and why – the Republic of Korea has moved so far forward in counter-crypto enforcement capabilities is worthy of attention.

Read the full analysis by Martin Horton-Eddison here: WP 6 Seoul Searching

These are interviews conducted by GDPO Senior Research Associate Axel Klein with various stakeholders in Jamaica's medical cannabis industry. The stakeholders give their perspective on Jamaica's licensing regime, since the amendment to the Dangerous Drugs Act. The Interviews were conducted in February 2020, approximately 5 years after decriminalization and the establishment of a licensing system in the country and fed into the Report, Ganja Licensing in Jamaica Learning lessons and setting standards, published by ICCR in April, 2020. 

Thank you Daniel Klein for filming an editing the piece.

To find out more please visit http://iccresearch.org/

"Consequences of criminalizing people who use or produce drugs and alternatives to purely repressive policies"

Monday 10 June, 2019

The GDPO team would like to thank Martin Horton-Eddison for his time putting this video-explainer together. 

Niamh Eastwood, Executive Director of Release, discusses the international narrative which surrounds issues of drug decriminilisation across the globe.

The GDPO team would like to thank the video contributors as well as Jasmin Gamez, Anna Dzunic, and Mai Hla Aye for all their hard work.

For more on the project behind this video, see the GDPO blog post 

To read more about Release, visit Release.org.uk

Marie Nougier, Head of Research and Communications at the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) discusses the international narrative which surrounds the global drug policy metrics issue.

The GDPO team would like to thank the video contributors as well as Jasmin Gamez, Anna Dzunic, and Mai Hla Aye for all their hard work.

For more on the project behind this video, see the GDPO blog post 

To read more on the metrics issue, visit the GDPO Metrics Project page

Julia Buxton, Professor of Comparative Politics at Central European University and Senior Research Associate at the GDPO, discusses the international narrative which surrounds the synthetic drugs issue.

The GDPO team would like to thank the video contributors as well as Jasmin Gamez, Anna Dzunic, and Mai Hla Aye for all their hard work.

For more on this project behind this video, see the GDPO blog post

Read or download the full report here, Dealing with Synthetics Time to Reframe the Narrative