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The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971: Counting the Costs of #50yearsofFailure Key data on
criminalisation & incarceration
enforcement spending
drug deaths
prevalence
drug availability
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https://transformdrugs.org/blog/misuse-of-drugs-act-counting-the-costs …
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https://transformdrugs.org/publications/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-counting-the-costs …
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A big thanks to
@WeAreBarod +@RobBarkerW for great work organising both our visit to Llanelli with@PeteKrykant_OPC and his Overdose Prevention Ambulance, and our joint meeting with Police and Crime Commissioner@DafyddLlywelyn earlier in the day, also attended by@Cranstoun_orghttps://twitter.com/TransformDrugs/status/1503469933983850512 …Thanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Limited-edition preorder discount
Our 3rd edition of How to Regulate Cannabis: A Practical Guide is currently available for preorder for £10
Preorder here
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TransformDrugPolicy Retweeted
The 65th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs
#CND65 starts today in Vienna - and runs through the week. A
THREAD
on what CND is all about and what to look out for
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The green wave hits Europe: recent cannabis regulation initiatives in Europe / Side event at UN #CND65 Register for zoom: http://buff.ly/3Jac2kO or watch live stream / recording on youtube here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSqdgPGVId8 …Thanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
TransformDrugPolicy Retweeted
[TOMORROW] Tuesday, 15th Mar., 09:00 (CET)
The green wave hits Europe: recent cannabis regulation initiatives in Europe / Side event at #CND65 Register & join: https://buff.ly/3Jac2kO pic.twitter.com/ZCGJo1TlBm
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Join us alongside the 65th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs for a side event on "Challenging the criminalization of poverty and marginalization in Africa – and beyond” Wed 16 March at 13.10 CET Register: http://bit.do/cnd65-crim-poverty …pic.twitter.com/U5zb3RAr5n
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Pat Hudson from
@anyoneschild explains why her son Kevin would be alive today if he had been able to use an Overdose Prevention Service like@PeteKrykant_OPC's one that we took to Llanelli todayhttps://www.itv.com/news/wales/2022-03-14/i-believe-a-supervised-drug-consumption-room-could-have-saved-my-sons-life-kevin-lane-heroin-overdose-carmarthen …Thanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
TransformDrugPolicy Retweeted
Want to see inside an
#Overdose Prevention Service? Well here you are,@PeteKrykant_OPC Glasgow OPS.#Wales#HarmReductionpic.twitter.com/0MNjpFGjHl
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For CND updates follow
@IDPCnet@INPUD@HRInews@theVNGOC@AnnFordham@SteveTransform@tblickman@MartinJelsmaTNI And for the official take:@UNODC@GhadaFathiWaly@CND_tweets 18/18pic.twitter.com/N2LE82ugDA
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Geopolitical disruption aside - the debate on drugs law reform at CND progresses, in the side events, if not always in formal sessions For some broader perspectives on UN drug control see this re-edited interview with
@stevetransform by@AleksiHupli https://youtu.be/TV4bpxBfYmM 17/Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Russia, a belligerent and disruptive presence in CND at the best of times, may yet seek to entirely derail the formal proceedings of the CND in retaliation 16/
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Russian side events will be cancelled or widely boycotted, and walkouts during Russian contributions are planned. MS are refusing to support the Russian resolution L3 - which cannot therefore pass in any form (& was awful anyway) https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/V22/007/01/PDF/V2200701.pdf?OpenElement … 15/
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Almost all member state plenary statements so far have included powerful condemnations of Russian. This is clearly coordinated action - unprecedented in the CND (where convention dictates Member states are not named/criticised) Civil society contributions likely to follow. 14/
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This year's CND is a strange one (& CND is already quite strange) - not just because Covid is again limiting in person participation - but also, inevitably, because of the long shadow the horrific war In Ukraine is currently casting over all international affairs. 13/pic.twitter.com/LF7cpj9V2L
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TransformDrugPolicy Retweeted
Great to meet with
@DafyddLlywelyn this morning to talk about Overdose Prevention Services and how we can continue to save lives across#Dyfed. Now on to#Llanellipic.twitter.com/D0WdZelGQx
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After a morning meeting
@DafyddLlywelyn to talk about Overdose Prevention Centres, we've arrived in Llanelli town centre with the ambulance and 4335@anyoneschild flowers to commemorate last year's drug-related deaths. Come to Central Square to see for yourself this afternoon!pic.twitter.com/NtmP6iANxC
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Transform is cosponsoring three side events, on cannabis reforms across Europe (Tuesday 9AM), on the challenges with the drug scheduling system (Wednesday 12AM), & Mitigating risks of corporate capture in legal cannabis markets (Friday 12AM) (more details to follow) 12/pic.twitter.com/m4ggMATFHB
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Members of the IDPC network is involved in 28 side events listed here
But its also worth attending some of the other non reform-oriented events, that can provide useful insights & opportunities to engage
(most side events can be viewed online later, shared by @UNODC) 11/pic.twitter.com/boqjaWcY4E
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There are also over 100 side events (all public/online); a unique & genuinely fascinating moment each year where civil society, members states, & UN entities on all sides of the drug debate occupy the same space. The full side event agenda is here: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/commissions/CND/session/65_Session_2022/mon_14_march_side-event.html … 10/
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There are 4 informal civil society dialogues with UN leaders (public/online) - an opportunity to put tough Qs to leaders of the global drug control regime
@UNODC Director Wed 10:30@CND_tweets Chair Thur 9:00 INCB President (Fri 15:00) WHO TBC Check IDPC/VNGOC for details
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