A report on addressing drug policy reform in NSW has outlined more than 50 recommendations, including calling for an end to strip searches and sniffer dogs at music festivals. Last year, the NSW Government held the state’s second drug summit, 25 years after the historic 1999 Drug Summit, to seek “ideas, policies and strategies to […]

Listen at https://www.wola.org/multimedia/global-drug-policy-countries-are-being-freed-up-to-actually-speak-their-minds/   For the second year in a row, what had been an uneventful, consensus-driven United Nations meeting on drug policy saw unexpected drama and signs of real change. At the 68th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna in March 2025, governments approved the formation of an independent […]

House lawmakers have rejected plans to include a tax hike on adult-use cannabis sales in the state’s two-year budget proposal. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine had called for provisions to be included in the budget raising the sales tax on retail cannabis products from ten percent to 20 percent. The Governor had suggested that the tax increase was necessary to […]

NL Times Coffee shop owners will not be punished for selling illegal hash during the final stage of the legal cannabis experiment. This was confirmed by Minister of Justice David van Weel and State Secretary for Prevention Vincent Karremans. The last phase of the experiment begins on April 7, next Monday. It was previously noted that […]

Bobby P. Smyth First published: 03 April 2025 https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70059 Funding information: None. Sections PDF Tools Share The Open Society Foundation (OSF) appears to have a large and distorting influence upon the current global drug policy conversation. The United Nations (UN) Conventions on Narcotic Drugs stand as a massive obstacle for those with drug legalization ambitions [1]. […]

One year of the Cannabis Act: BvCW sees positive preliminary results Patient care simplified, consumers decriminalized and home-grown cannabis booming 2025-03-31 | The Cannabis Act (CanG) came into force on April 1, 2024. It legalized private home cultivation, cultivation associations and the possession of small quantities of cannabis. At the same time, medical cannabis was […]