Drug Policy
The Drug Policy Project combines scholarship with activism to transform drug control policy both at home and abroad.
The Project works with grassroots entities, media, and policy makers to shift away from the drug “war” paradigm and its disastrous impacts on the environment, toward holistic policies that address public health, safety and economic alternatives to the prohibition drug economy.
The intersection of race and poverty in the drug war is at the heart of the project’s work. The project has focused recently on the attendant “collateral damage” caused by the United States exporting its drug war to Colombia and Afghanistan, peace efforts in Colombia, drug war-related politics in the Philippines, and border politics between the U.S. and Mexico. Establishing humane and sustainable alternatives to the “drug war” paradigm fits into the IPS mandate as a major contemporary social justice issue on a global scale.
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Reports
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Peace & Foreign Policy
Lessons from Resistance to Authoritarianism Around the World
A webinar series on what the U.S. can learn from anti-authoritarian movements around the world.
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Peace & Foreign Policy
Advancing from Partial Peace in Colombia
The landmark agreement that ended Colombia's civil war remains fragile and incomplete. The U.S. needs to do more to support its implementation.
Drug Policy in the news
Trump’s Killing Spree Isn’t Stopping the Flow of Drugs Into the U.S.
How Myths about Fentanyl, Drug Trafficking Fueled New Phase in U.S. Drug War
“A giant mess”: Trump’s war in Ecuador won’t slow the flow of drugs into the US
Sanho Tree Discusses U.S. Foreign Policy, Drug War History, New Marijuana Scheduling
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