Prohibition Watch

Laughing if off

Prohibition may be dragging on like a bad hangover but laughing it off can help. This is a sharing site, the best prohibition joke will be celebrated as PPP (Prohibition Prize Piss-taker) of the year.

The Prohibition Project

Addiction, Corruption, Organised Crime, Agency-overreach (ACOG) – the fall out from prohibition has been the biggest avoidable threat to political stability and the growth of good governance across the globe. It has been a leading contributor to avoidable deaths, environmental degradation and the corrosion of civil liberties. Unlike many other

UNODC’s ‘World Drug Report’

Each spring the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (sic) launches the 'World Drugs Report', a colourful almanac of illustrated faction dedicated to the so called world drug problem. A superb effort of information processing and expectation management, it provides the agency with pseudo-scientific fig leaf while keeping 'drugs' on the agenda. With a generous lashing of carefully edited statistics the press release makes for a delicious read in the Orwellian art of fear mongering. We take a deeper look at some of the special topics selected in the latest edition.