The Pope plans to embrace one of Bolivia’s strongest indigenous traditions by chewing coca leaves. In doing so, the pontiff could give a boost to the Bolivian government’s efforts to gain international legal status for its sacred leaf, which is erroneously banned as a narcotic drug in the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.
Thailand is providing US$ 10.4 million in partnering with Myanmar to develop alternatives to opium poppy cultivation in 56 villages in the border area of Mong Hsat in Shan State.
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Hoping to curb the epidemic of HIV and Hepatitis C, the local government of Cebu developed a harm reduction programme. However, when officials advocating against illicit drugs caught wind of the study, they immediately called for an end of the programme.
A presidential decree that grants amnesty to low-level drug offenders and other special prison populations is a much needed step towards prison reform in Bolivia. However, it falls short of offering a system-wide policy solution to overcrowded and inhumane prison conditions.
The Hawaii state Department of Health has until January 4 to finalise rules and regulations for the new system which will benefit an estimated 13,800 registered medical marijuana cardholders.
Thousands of patients with advanced cancer in Armenia suffer from avoidable, severe pain every year because they cannot get adequate pain medications, Human Rights Watch said in a report and video released in July.
The Vietnamese government will subsidise a health programme using methadone maintenance treatment to treat approximately 6,000 people dependent on drugs across the northern province of Son La, Vietnam through 2020.
EHRN is calling on all network members and other representatives of civil society from Eastern European and Central Asian countries to actively engage in the national and global UNGASS preparatory processes.
