Plan adopted at special session focuses on reform and cooperation between nations but maintains policies that criminalise non-medical or scientific drug useThe ‘war on drugs’ in numbers: a systematic failure of policy

Overlapping dates are ‘most likely coincidental’, says marijuana advocate as pot smokers prepare to celebrate cannabis nationwide

April 19--At what is being billed as the most significant high-level gathering on global drug policy in two decades, the stage will be set for world leaders to discuss what would have once been unthinkable -- reversing course in the war on drugs.

Drugs perpetuate poverty and criminalise people who are already marginalised. This week, the UN meets to discuss the world’s drug problem

Juan Manuel Santos expressed dismay at UN decision to continue supporting criminalisation of drug use: ‘The old way of doing things is the wrong way’The ‘war on drugs’ in numbers: a systematic failure of policy

Reform of drug policy is essential to protect the rights of cultivating communities, and ensure they make a living from their land