Statement by the International Narcotics Control Board on the entry into force of Bill C-45 legalising cannabis for non-medical purposes in Canada VIENNA - On the occasion of the entry into force of Bill C-45 which legalises cannabis for non-medica…

UN drugs board slams Canada cannabis legalization After recreational marijuana became legal in Canada, the Vienna-based International Narcotics Control Board slammed the decision in a statement calling the step incompatible with UN international dr…

USA. Feds charge 5 New York doctors with prescribing 8.5 million opioid pills Federal authorities indicted five New York City-area doctors Thursday for writing more than 8.5 million allegedly unnecessary opioid prescriptions. (NBC News, USA, 12.10…

USA. New FBI Report: Every 20 seconds, someone is arrested for a drug law violation in the U.S.  According to the FBI’s latest Uniform Crime Report, released today, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. made 1.63 million arrests for drug…

USA. Court rejects murder conviction for dealer in overdose death A Mississippi appeals court has rejected a test case of whether drug dealers can be prosecuted for murder under state law when a drug user dies. (The State, USA, 08.09.2018) https:/…

USA. Florida ‘Pill Mill’ Doctor, Staff Sentenced After 1.2 Million Doses A South Florida doctor was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for conspiring to prescribe more than a million doses of addictive opioid-based painkillers…