While the UN holds a special session on world drug policy, an interfaith social justice group will focus on ‘devastating consequences’ of mass incarcerationUruguay to test world’s first state-commissioned recreational marijuanaAfter 30 years on frontline, Colombia looks beyond failed war on drugs

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.

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

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

Enrique Peña Nieto says laws would stop ‘criminalising consumption’ The initiative signals a shift for the president, who has opposed legalisationUN critics call special session on drug policy ‘fatally flawed’

Several prisons are implementing video visitation. These almost always come at the expense of real-life visits – and that is dangerous