ICSDP News
December 28, 2010
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Vancouver Sun
The BC-CfE's Dr. Evan Wood argues that gang violence has emerged as an unintended consequence of a more than a half-century long experiment aimed at reducing illegal drug supply through aggressive law enforcement.
November 19, 2010
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Metro
The City of Vancouver has voted unanimously to endorse the Vienna Declaration, an international campaign calling for governments to adopt evidence-based drug polices that reduce harm, rather than tougher laws.
October 27, 2010
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TIME.com
What would be the best way to legally control marijuana? TIME.com offers proposed regulations, with comments from drug-policy experts, including the BC-CfE's Dr. Evan Wood.
October 18, 2010
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Dr. Evan Wood, director of the BC-CfE's International Centre for Science in Drug Policy argues that cannabis prohibition and the war on drugs have been major policy failures.
October 16, 2010
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Los Angeles Times
The BC-CfE's Dr. Evan Wood argues that science and empirical research have been given short shrift in the discussion around California's upcoming ballot measure to regulate, control, and tax cannabis.
October 8, 2010
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Financial Times
A new study by the BC-CfE's International Centre for Science in Drug Policy demonstrates that prohibition of cannabis has increased the drug's availability and potency while failing to reduce its use.
October 7, 2010
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The Globe and Mail
A new report by the BC-CfE's International Centre for Science in Drug Policy demonstrates the abject failure of marijuana prohibition in the United States.
October 7, 2010
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Vancouver Sun
The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy's new report analyzes the results of the American government's criminalization of cannabis.
October 7, 2010
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TIME
A new report, released Thursday by the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy takes a historical look at how U.S. drug policy has affected use, and suggests how to regulate drugs effectively.
October 7, 2010
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News 1130
A new report by the BC-CfE's International Centre for Science in Drug Policy suggests the money the U.S. government has spent criminalizing marijuana has largely been a waste.
August 28, 2010
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Xtra.ca
After a 33-7 vote yesterday, Toronto City Council endorsed the Vienna Declaration, a document that denounces the war on drugs, the National Post reports.
August 27, 2010
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National Post
Toronto City Council voted to endorse the Vienna Declaration on Thursday, raising a loud voice against the war on drugs.
August 27, 2010
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Toronto Star
Toronto has become the first city in the world to endorse the Vienna Declaration, which advocates harm reduction over the law enforcement-driven war on drugs.
August 25, 2010
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Scientific American
Drug policy has focused on a policing approach of prohibition and incarceration, which has contributed to spreading HIV within the injection-drug community. Comprehensive drug reform policies are showing better results
August 6, 2010
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Chilliwack Progress
In many countries the criminalization of drug users has led to devastating consequences such as helping to enrich organized crime, escalating violence in communities, and fuelling the HIV epidemic.
August 4, 2010
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Embassy
The Vienna Declaration, the official declaration of the recently completed International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, seeks to improve community health and safety by calling for the incorporation of scientific evidence into illicit drug policies.
July 28, 2010
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Los Angeles Times
The XVIII International AIDS Conference endorsed as its official statement the Vienna Declaration, a document the BC-CfE's Dr. Evan Wood helped draft, to draw widespread attention to how the war on drugs has played a central role in driving the HIV epidemic around the world.
July 28, 2010
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National Post
The National Post endorses the BC-CfE's call for evidence-based drug policy.
July 28, 2010
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Medscape Medical News
More than 13,000 clinicians, researchers, and public policy experts have signed the Vienna Declaration, calling for the global decriminalization of drug use and the implementation of evidence-based policies to halt the rampant spread of HIV infection among injecting drug users (IDUs).
July 27, 2010
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Edmonton Sun
The key statement that emerged from last week’s International AIDS Conference was the Vienna Declaration, a document asking governments to base their drug policies on scientific evidence.
July 24, 2010
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Vancouver Sun
The federal government of Canada once again ignored the need for evidence-based health policy this week by refusing to support the Vienna Declaration.
July 23, 2010
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Ottawa Citizen
Canada's refusal to endorse the Vienna Declaration is explored in a column by the Ottawa Citizen.
July 22, 2010
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The Province
Despite mountains of scientific evidence proving the prohibition on drugs such as heroin is a failure, governments in Canada, the U.S. and around the world continue to ignore the health and social harm caused by their antiquated policies, says the BC-CfE's Dr. Evan Wood.
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