📑 Editor’s Choice📑 “Not just fentanyl: Understanding the complexities of the unregulated opioid supply through results from a drug checking service in British Columbia, Canada” by Pablo Gonzalez Nieto and colleagues (2025) via International Journal of Drug Policy. Read below! 👇 Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Energy-intensive indoor cultivation drives the #cannabis industry’s expanding carbon footprint sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Germany: The CDU/CSU and SPD want to review the legalization of #cannabis for adults – however, a reversal was not included in the coalition agreement. An open-ended evaluation of the law in the fall of 2025 has now been agreed upon.

🇺🇳 🧞‍♂️ At the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the voting genie is out of the bottle — and it grants no wishes to hardliners. 🗳️ IDPC Deputy Director, Jamie Bridge, on recent votes that spell transformation in global #DrugPolicy 🗳️ Read & share! idpc.net/blog/2025/04/t…

"Mother earth has gifted the sacred coca leaf to the Andean-Amazonian Peoples" David Choquehuanca Céspedes (Vice president of Bolívia) at the 68th CND #cnd68

The legal distribution of cannabis can reduce problematic consumption, particularly among people who also use other drugs, according to a Swiss study. 1/2 swissinfo.ch/eng/various/le…

Drug-related law enforcement is more likely to increase violence than reduce it, indicates a report commissioned by the government of the United Kingdom. Whether the government will revise its drug policies accordingly remains to be seen. filtermag.org/uk-goverment-d…

Where too many politicians lack the courage to challenge the failed 'war on drugs', Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema has showed pragmatic leadership: "why leave a health-risk product to criminals? Alcohol & medicine are regulated, why not drugs?" monocle.com/affairs/amster… 1/

The London Mayor's drug commission report is finally published today. It makes a welcome call for decriminalisation of cannabis possession but disappointingly stops short of recommending any form of legal regulation of cannabis markets. THREAD 1/🧵 london.gov.uk/programmes-str…

The ED of UN Office on Drugs & Crime, Ghada Fathi Waly has apparently resigned. Awaiting more info - and can only speculate as to the reasons, but seems likely its related to massive funding cuts and broader institutional crisis at a failing agency. 1/

The coca leaf is sacred. UN drug policy must stop criminalising Indigenous traditions. The current WHO review is a rare chance to align drug policy with human rights. Will the UN meet the moment? More in our Coca Chronicles #5 with WOLA tni.org/en/article/the…

#Atención📣 Distintas organizaciones sociales expresamos nuestra profunda preocupación ante los anuncios del Gobierno Nacional de reactivar la erradicación terrestre de cultivos de uso ilícito con glifosato con posibles intervenciones en al menos 15 departamentos. 🚨Esta

⚠️ The 2025 World Drug Report is out! #WDR2025 Beneath UN Office on Drugs & Crime's spin lie countless lives marked by pain. Drug markets are expanding. Harms are rising. Police-led approaches are failing. The agency won't say it plainly, so we did: idpc.net/blog/2025/06/e…

Across time zones, the IDPC team stands in solidarity with everyone taking action around 26 June to build fairer futures for each other, and the ones who will come after us. 💚 As we have done for over 12 years, we say it loud and clear: #SupportDontPunish

Thai Public Health Minister Somsak Thepsutin signed an order restricting #cannabis use to strictly medical purposes. People wanting to buy cannabis would in future have to present a doctor’s prescription and a medical certificate detailing their condition. bangkokpost.com/learning/easy/…

🔴 LIVE from #HRC59: #SupportDontPunish side event on the urgent need for drug policy reform — centring decriminalisation, harm reduction, and the right to health. States, UN officials, civil society & community voices call for dignity, not punishment.

The IDPC network is committed to protecting #health and #humanrights. At today’s #SupportDontPunish side event at #HRC59, IDPC's Marie Nougier pushed back on the idea that decrim is a foreign concept — reminding states that rights-based drug policy is an imperative.

Cannabis is the most widely consumed illicit drug in Europe: 24 million European adults have used #cannabis in the last year. euda.europa.eu/publications/e… The European Commission fails 24 million European adults by blocking a comprehensive legal regulation. dw.com/en/germany-wat…

In Czechia the Senate confirms: it will be legal to grow up to three #cannabis plants, possess up to 100 grams at home and 25 grams outdoors. Growing four to five plants will be a misdemeanour, more plants and more than 200 grams a criminal offence. ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/senat-s…