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Drug Policy in the CARICOM Caribbean

Axel Klein[1] and Marcus Day[2] Introduction The Caribbean region is a place of both production and consumption of drugs (cannabis, alcohol), but drug control measures have largely been shaped by the transit of South American cocaine to North American and European markets. Policies have therefore been imposed by external powers

Towards social justice and economic empowerment? Exploring Jamaica’s progress with implementing cannabis law reform

Authors: Axel Kleina , Global Drug Policy Observatory, University of Swansea, Swansea, UK; bShore & Whāriki Research Centre, Marta Rychertb, College of Health, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand; Machel A. Emanuelc Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona

The Reverse Robin Hood: How Drug Prohibition Extracts Wealth from the Poor and Protects the Powerful

Drug prohibition is best understood not as a public health measure, but as a mechanism of wealth transfer—one that takes from the poorest and gives to the wealthiest. Globally, only about 5% of the population engages in drug use.[^1] Yet the illicit drug trade is routinely described as one of the

A New Path Forward for Cannabis in Saint Lucia

A New Path Forward for Cannabis in Saint Lucia: From Prohibition to Pragmatic Regulation A Policy Brief for the Government of Saint Lucia based on a Comprehensive Re-Analysis of the 2012 Cannabis Brokering in Saint Lucia Survey By Marcus Day, August 2026 Executive Summary This policy brief is based on

Consultation Response — Proposed Update to EU Tobacco Control Rules

Date: 15 June 2026 I write to express my serious concerns regarding the proposed update to the EU tobacco control framework. The measures under consultation fail on four distinct grounds: scientific accuracy, criminogenic consequences, harm to innovation, and subordination of evidence to ideology. Each is addressed in turn below. I.

Proposals for EU Tobacco Control. Another Bureaucratic Power Grab.

A week before the Global Forum on Nicotine https://gfn.events/ in Warsaw, an annual gathering for people in the tobacco space, a comment was made on the evaluation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (2014/40/EU) that was published in April. Since this document is the foundation for policy formulation, we would

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.