This groundbreaking report sets out how the legal production and supply of cannabis could work in the UK. It was established in the autumn by Liberal Democrat Health spokesperson Norman Lamb MP. The expert panel was chaired by Steve Rolles, Senior Policy Analyst from Transform Drug Policy Foundation
Bibliography: Production and Supply
After the Drug Wars
Report of the LSE Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy
The internet and drug markets
This first EMCDDA investigation into the world of online drug markets brings together state-of-the-art input from over 20 experts — from academia, journalism and frontline practice — and contributes to the knowledge base on this part of the supply chain
Drug Crop Production, Poverty, and Development
This series intends to provide a primer on why governments must not turn a blind eye to pressing human rights and public health impacts of current drug policies (OSF)
Impact of the reduction in heroin supply between 2010 and 2011
This report makes best use of available secondary data to examine how the reduction in heroin supply in England and Wales manifested itself at street level and to attempt to quantify any impact on drug use and associated harms (Home Office)
Cannabis in Indonesia
Patterns in consumption, production, and policies (TNI)
How to Break Free of the Drugs-Conflict Nexus in Colombia
After nearly 80 years of war, Colombia is on the cusp of closing a historic peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC), the country’s largest guerrilla group (InSight Crime)
Social supply of cannabis in Australia
The findings have implications for the policing of social supply drug markets, the public education of participants in the social supply market and how social supply offences are dealt with in law (NDLERF)
Third Myanmar Opium Farmers’ Forum
At the end of the forum the farmers issued a statement with recommendations to policy makers nationally and internationally. The forum also agreed on follow-up activities that would help draw attention to the challenges they face. Download report (TNI)
Drug Money: the illicit proceeds of opiates trafficked on the Balkan route
This study focuses on a vital aspect of illicit drug trafficking: the huge profits that flow from this trade into the hands of criminals and their networks. South-Eastern Europe, through the so-called Balkan route, is a key pathway for the delivery of opiates from Afghanistan into Western and Central Europe (UNODC)
Drugs and Illicit Practices
Assessing their impact on development and governance (Christian Aid)
Minimum quality standards for drug demand reduction interventions in the EU
This innovative initiative lists 16 standards that represent a minimum benchmark of quality for interventions in: drug use prevention, risk and harm reduction, treatment, social integration and rehabilitation (EMCDDA)
Profit from drugs inside prisons feeding crime outside, police leaders warned
Police forces have been told to face up to the “fall-out” from Britain’s burgeoning prison population as the Government sets out a bold new-for-old building programme (Police Professional)
UNODC, OSCE develop strategies to reduce drug demand and drug supply to youth
UNODC, through its Deputy Executive Director, addressed a high-level conference aimed at enhancing the mechanisms to stem the increasing spread of illicit drugs amongst young people, organized under the Serbian Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Drugs policy metrics under review
The UNGASS in April 2016 will offer a forum to systematise a process of developing sophisticated indicators that are in tune with developments taking place within some member states (Jane’s)
Precursor chemical import and export authorisation wallchart
This chart shows the regulation of precursor chemicals in the UK (Home Office)
ACMD interim advice: diversion and illicit supply of medicines
Letter to the Home Office setting out the ACMD’s interim advice in relation to diversion and illicit supply of medicines (ACMD)
Precursor chemical licensing
Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals (Home Office)
Reducing the Cultivation of Opium Poppies in Southern Afghanistan
This report identifies a broad range of factors that drive opium poppy cultivation in southern Afghanistan, the locus of opium production in that country, and assesses the positive and negative effects of programs designed to promote rural development, eradicate opium poppies, or otherwise create incentives for farmers to reduce the cultivation of opium poppies (RAND)
View from the Ground: Infrastructure and Coca in Guaviare, Colombia
In mid-May 2015, Ross, Dave and I left the relatively comfortable climate of Bogotá and headed to the humidity of South East Colombia and the Department of Guaviare to conduct fieldwork … (Global Drug Policy Observatory)
