Epilogue / Mike Trace. The death penalty for drug offences: pulling back the curtain to expose a flawed regime / Gen Sander, Rick Lines -- Measuring the world drug problem: 2019 and beyond / David R. Bewley-Taylor, Marie Nougier -- Improving access to internationally controlled essential medicines in the post-UNGASS, agenda 2030 framework / Katherine Irene Pettus -- The elephant in the room: cannabis in the international drug control regime / Tom Blickman -- Drug policy in the Russian federation: do control policies produce more harm than drugs? / Mikhail Golichenko, Anya Sarang, Khalid Tinasti, Isabela Barbosa -- Consensus and contradictions in ASEAN: an analysis of southeast Asia at and after UNGASS 2016 / Ricky Gunawan, Gloria Lai -- Deconstructing the Islamic bloc: the Middle East and North Africa and pluralistic drugs policy / Maziyar Ghiabi -- Breaking ranks: pioneering drug policy protagonism in Uruguay and Bolivia / Jonas von Hoffmann -- The Netherlands, Portugal and the Czech Republic: political perceptions and legal realities / Danilo Ballotta, Brendan Hughes -- The European Union in panglossian stagnation / Caroline Chatwin -- United States drug policy: flexible prohibition and regulation / Zara Snapp, Jorge Herrera Valderrabano -- West Africa / Leandre Banon, Maria-Goretti Ane -- Switzerland: moving towards public health and harm reduction / Frank Zobel, Larissa J. Maier -- Epilogue / Mike Trace.
Summary:
The 2016 UNGASS on drug policy resulted in an Outcome Document detailing profound differences of opinion and practice between different states polarising public health and human rights themes. This book examines the different positions, the underlying problems, and the options open for the next international gathering on drugs.
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