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The status of cannabis in the UN drug conventions is controversial. It is now scheduled among the most dangerous substances. How and why did cannabis in the conventions? Does it belong there? What are the options to review the status of cannabis according to current scientific data? Is making cannabis subject to a control regime similar to harmful substances like alcohol and tobacco a solution?
    Cannabis social club activists in Spain liberated
    November 2011
    Tom Blickman

    Cultivation and consumption of cannabis is decriminalised to an extent but lack of guidelines causes rogue social clubs to undermine the success of self-regulated social clubs. The result; an unwarranted arrest of three Pannagh activists. 

    Cannabis Social Clubs en Espagne
    October 2011
    Martin Barriuso Alonso (FAC)

    Les Clubs Sociaux du Cannabis (CSC) sont des associations d’usagers qui s’organisent pour s’auto-approvisionner sans avoir recours au marché noir. Profitant de une zone grise juridique, il existe depuis plusieurs années, des clubs privés qui produisent du cannabis pour le distribuer, sans but...

    Série sur la Réforme Législative des Politiques des Drogues, Numéro 9
    Drug Club: Spain's alternative cannabis economy
    June 2011
    Nick Buxton

    While public opinion seems to be shifting towards support for legalisation;there is surprisingly little discussion in the drugs counter-culture of what a socially just model of cannabis consumption might look like.

    Cannabis social clubs in Spain
    January 2011
    Martín Barriuso Alonso

    Cannabis social clubs in Spain are noncommercial organisations of users who get together to cultivate and distribute enough cannabis to meet their personal needs without having to turn to the black market.

    Series on Legislative Reform of Drug Policies Nr. 9
    A Pointless War
    November 2004
    Tom Blickman
     Jorge Atilio Silva Iulianelli, Luiz Paulo Guanabara, Paulo Cesar Pontes Fraga

    In this issue of Drugs & Conflict, the background to the drugs-related violence in the Brazilian North-East marijuana cultivation area, as well as in the favelas in Rio, is described.

    Drugs & Conflict Debate Papers 11
    Uma Guerra sem Sentido
    November 2004
    Tom Blickman
     Jorge Atilio Silva Iulianelli, Luiz Paulo Guanabara, Paulo Cesar Pontes Fraga

    Nesta edição de Drogas & Conflito, é descrito o pano de fundo da violência relacionada às drogas nas áreas de cultivo de maconha do Nordeste

    Drugs & Conflict Debate Papers 11
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