In the name of the “Drug War”
Building on the continuing broad support for the drug war, Duterte announced last year with his Philippine Anti-Illegal Drugs Strategy (PADS) “drug-free communities by 2022” .
In this article, I present some of the effects of this anti-drug campaign based on perspectives on the affected communities, on justifications and impacts of the killings and on functions of the most prominent drug allegedly to be extinguished.
The Prohibitionist Psychosis and its Constitutional Implications
Book Presentation: Author: Roar Mikalsen, Norway AROD – Alliance for Right-Oriented Drug policies. [aux_button label=”Click Here To Download The Book” size=”medium” icon_align=”center” color_name=”dark-gray” border=”” style=”” icon=”download” link=”https://knowmadinstitut.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/HUMAN-RISING-2018-PDF.pdf” target=”_blank”] “Tracing the Spirit of Freedom as it moves through the centuries, this book ties the prohibitionist experiment to other totalitarian endeavors. Arguing from a perspective of First…
Meet our Chief Technology Officer
Our Chief Technology Officer is an international social entrepreneur and Activist. Co-Founder in La María Guanaca; Abraxas Transmedia; and finalist of TICAméricas. Victor is a Disruptive Entrepreneur in a constant search for new knowledge. With a special love for new technologies and the challenges that their implementation poses in our daily lives. He has worked…
Barcelona Declaration
In 2019, February more than 40 womxn from Europe and Central Asia met in Barcelona to work together on intersectional feminism, drug policy, harm reduction and human rights, where the Barcelona Declaration was initiated. The Barcelona Declaration On International Women’s Day 2019, we declare that the War On Drugs is a war on Womxn Who…
UN Global Compact – a good start but more policies are needed
by Marco Perduca, Science for Democracy & Guido Long, Associazione Luca Coscioni The Global Compact on Migration is an international agreement negotiated under United Nations guidance, with the aim of addressing “all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner”. It was approved by the UN General Assembly in December 2018 with 152…
Bolivia, The Coca Leaf and the New Horizons of Plants Banned from International Markets
By Patricia Chulver Benitez Director Of Our Partner Organization: Acción Semilla Foundation 2018 was a year with significant advances in the regulation of some controlled substances at the international level of drug policy and it is necessary to analyze the trends to understand the steps that Bolivia must take if it wishes to advance with…
This 10th Anniversary of the Genesis Block Support the First Non-Profit Node in the Lightning Network
A decade ago, on January 3, 2009, at 18:15:05 (GMT) the first block of the Blockchain of Bitcoin was generated. Linked to publication of his white paper, the well-known Genesis Block represents a generation’s response to the financial crisis caused by the irresponsibility of banks and regulators alike. This marks the beginning of the end…
Review: Opioids and Cannabis at the United Nations
Summary and Impressions of the Intergovernmental Meeting of the Expert Group on Opiates and the Reconvened 61st Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the United Nations Intergovernmental Meeting of the Expert Group on Opiates Over the past 150 years, humanity has experienced several opioid crises, but none as devastating as the current one,…
1-VIENNA 61-18
– Narrative Report – Intergovernmental EGM on Opioids | Reconvened 61st Session of the CND | ICPC 2018 14.12.2018 Basic Information Project and Contact Information Name of the program / project: Drug Policy Program – Knowmad Institut Activity: Intergovernmental EGM on Opioids 03-04/12/2018| Reconvened 61st Session of the CND 05-07/1272018 | International Cannabis Policy Conference 07-09/12/2018 Grant…
Government that produces death, death that produces government
With the extreme right rising in Brazil, the right to life may lose its current status as a relative guarantee to become the main asset of social inequality By Evandro Cruz Silva.* Social Scientist at Universidade Estadual de Campinas. The sociologist Mitchell Duneier tells in his book “Ghetto: the invention of place, the history a idea” the story…
