The evidence from Portugal since 2001 is that decriminalisation of drug use and possession has benefits and no harmful side-effects IN 2001 newspapers around the world carried graphic reports of…

Portugal has been the subject of a lot of attention lately over its decriminalization of drug possession. Although decriminalization has been in place for eight years now, it is only this…

In an about face, the United Nations on Wednesday lavishly praised drug decriminalization in its annual report on the state of global drug policy. In previous years, the UN drug…

Street drug–related deaths from overdoses drop and the rate of HIV cases crashes.In the face of a growing number of deaths and cases of HIV linked to drug abuse, the…